For several years, a network of farms, pickup communities, processing businesses, logistics partners, and many committed individuals has been growing around TEIKEI.
Over time, the question has arisen of how this collaboration can be sustained in the long term—organizationally, legally, economically, and as a community.
This page does not describe a finished cooperative. It documents a joint clarification process.
In recent months, numerous discussions have helped further develop previous considerations.
It became clear that some assumptions were made too early, and other questions must first be clarified together.
Therefore, this section is not a finished concept. It collects considerations, open questions, already developed foundations, and possible directions for development.
The actual design is intended to emerge collectively.
The focus is not on the question:
"How do we found a cooperative as quickly as possible?"
Rather, it is:
How does an existing producer-consumer community become a collectively supported cooperative?
This raises further fundamental questions:
These questions are to be answered together.
What could a TEIKEI cooperative actually do in practice?
A simple example shows how regional supply, producers, communities, and the connection between European regions could interact.
This example does not describe an approved model.
It serves to make a possible task of the cooperative concretely imaginable and discussable together.
Numerous foundations have already been created in recent months.
They form the working basis for further discussion and are continuously supplemented.
The foundations are not created solely from theoretical considerations but through exchange with people who have founded, accompanied, or taken responsibility in community organizations for many years.
The following discussions and events document this joint clarification process and form an important basis for further development.
All these contributions are understood as working foundations. They describe the current state of considerations and are further developed together.
In the further clarification process, the following questions, among others, are to be addressed together.
A cooperative does not emerge from a concept alone.
It emerges when people want to take joint responsibility.
Therefore, the next step begins with a joint founding clarification.
It serves to
The next concrete step is the TEIKEI Founding Clarification Conference on October 6, 2026, from 3:00–6:00 PM.
The conference is explicitly not a founding meeting.
It creates a shared space to address the central question of the clarification process with people from the network:
How does a producer-consumer community become a producer-consumer cooperative?
The focus is initially not on drafting statutes or a finished organizational structure.
Together, it should become clear
The conference thus marks the transition from previous conceptual considerations to a joint clarification process with the network.
An important starting point for this next step was the discussion between Helmut Geißler, Burghard Flieger, and Felix Schröder in August 2026.
It became clear that a cooperative does not first emerge through statutes or a finished concept. What is crucial is whether people can be found who are willing to take joint responsibility.
The discussions and insights on the way to the conference and beyond are continuously documented.
After the founding clarification, it should be clear whether a sustainable initiative group forms and what next steps emerge from it.
Only on this basis should it be decided whether and how a concrete cooperative founding is pursued further.
Existing community
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Shared questions
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Clarification process
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Founding clarification conference
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Possible initiative group
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Shared concept
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Statutes and founding preparation
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Decision on founding
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Possible cooperative
This sequence does not describe a fixed plan.
It shows a possible order in which a collective sponsorship can gradually develop from an existing community.
What is crucial is not reaching the next formal step as quickly as possible.
Each further step only emerges when people are found who want to support it together.
This section is understood as a shared working and clarification space.
It invites you to
Whether a cooperative emerges from this is not decided by a document.
A collective sponsorship emerges where people are willing to share responsibility and take the next step together.
This page forms the central entry point into the clarification process around a possible TEIKEI cooperative.
It bundles existing foundations, discussion notes, open questions, and the shared path from an existing community to a possible collective sponsorship.
The next concrete step is the TEIKEI Founding Clarification Conference on October 6, 2026.
The insights, open questions, and next steps arising from it will subsequently be further documented in this section.
One level up: Sponsorship
Author: Felix Schröder, with the help of AI (ChatGPT)
Creation: written by Felix Schröder › formatted in Markdown by ChatGPT › published by Felix Schröder › layout adjusted by Claude
Created: 2026-01-22 · Last updated: 2026-10-10 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us