This section consolidates agricultural knowledge within the TEIKEI network. It describes how cultivation, production, farm development, and landscape design are understood, and which paths farms can take to strengthen soil, water, biodiversity, and supply in the long term.
The focus is not on a uniform method. Agriculture always emerges from specific conditions: climate, soil, water, topography, farm structure, existing crops, people, animals, machinery, experience, and regional relationships. Therefore, a space is needed that makes different agricultural systems, development paths, and practice areas visible side by side.
This section helps to understand agriculture not just through individual products, but through interconnections:
This knowledge space connects fundamentals, practice, landscape understanding, and long-term development paths.
This section describes the fundamental forms of agricultural production within the TEIKEI network. It serves as the primary reference point for specific cultivation methods such as arable farming, vegetable cultivation, fruit growing, olive cultivation, or viticulture.
Classification is based on the primary agricultural system form. Methods such as agroforestry, permaculture, water retention, or regenerative development can be described within these systems but do not replace the main location for the respective crop.
A vineyard therefore remains in the viticulture chapter.
An olive grove remains in the olive cultivation chapter.
A fruit farm remains in the fruit and berry cultivation chapter.
A vegetable farm remains in the vegetable cultivation chapter.
This creates a clear structure without duplicate entries.
Annual crop systems are primarily based on plants that are sown, tended, and harvested within one year. They are strongly characterized by crop rotations, soil cultivation, seasonal planning, and recurring cultivation decisions.
This section includes crops and systems whose areas are redesigned or replanted each year.
Here, the focus is on soil care, crop rotations, nutrient cycles, labor intensity, seeds, harvest windows, and seasonal dynamics.
Perennial permanent crops remain on the same area for many years or decades. They form permanent root zones, shape landscapes in the long term, and require different care, water, and soil logics than annual crops.
This section is the primary reference point for all permanently established crop forms.
Topics such as pruning, care cycles, harvest, water supply, erosion, soil cover, biodiversity, variety selection, climate resilience, and long-term farm development are covered here.
Even if a vineyard is further developed agroforestry, permaculture, or regenerative methods, the main location for this content remains in the viticulture chapter.
Even if an olive grove is combined with grazing animals, mixed crops, or water retention, the main location for this content remains in the olive cultivation chapter.
Agroforestry and mixed systems describe agricultural systems in which multiple vegetation layers, crops, or forms of use are intentionally combined.
This section is the main location for system logics and design principles, not for individual crop types.
Here, the focus is on the connection between trees, shrubs, field crops, animals, soil cover, water retention, microclimates, and biodiversity.
Specific applications are documented in the respective main cultivation system.
Examples:
This section describes agricultural systems in which animals, pasture areas, nutrient cycles, and landscape management play a central role.
The focus is not on livestock farming as an isolated branch of the farm but on its integration into living farm and landscape systems.
Topics include grazing management, animal welfare, soil building, manure management, compost, nutrient cycles, fodder areas, landscape care, and the connection between livestock farming and plant production.
This section describes agricultural landscapes as larger ecological and cultural contexts. Here, the focus is not on individual crops but on landscape spaces, transitions, and structural developments.
This section helps to understand how agriculture is embedded in landscapes: in slopes, valleys, watercourses, elevations, dry areas, terraces, settlement spaces, and historical cultural spaces.
However, specific crops remain located in their main cultivation system.
Examples:
This section describes how regenerative agriculture is understood within the TEIKEI network and what development paths are available for farms in the European context.
Regenerative agriculture in the TEIKEI context is not a rigid procedure or a uniform set of measures. Rather, it is an agricultural orientation that aims to not only conserve natural resources but actively strengthen them. At its core are living soils, stable water cycles, diverse landscapes, resilient cultivation systems, and agriculture that remains viable in the long term.
Many farms in the network are at different starting points. Some have been working with ecological or regenerative methods for years, while others are at the beginning of a development path. That is why this section is not about an either-or approach but about transitions, learning processes, and concrete steps that can make sense under the specific conditions of a farm.
Regenerative development means viewing the farm as a living whole. This includes, among other things, building soil fertility, promoting biological activity in the soil, conscious water management, integrating trees and hedges, fostering biodiversity, and a cultivation method that works more closely with natural cycles.
At the same time, regenerative agriculture is always location-specific. What makes sense in a dry region of the Peloponnese may differ significantly from what works in Central Europe, mountainous areas, or high-precipitation coastal regions. Development paths must therefore be adapted to climate, soil, landscape, and farm realities.
This section provides orientation for precisely this question:
What steps can farms take if they want to further develop their agriculture in a regenerative direction?
This can involve small changes as well as profound transformations in cultivation, area design, or the entire farm logic.
Here, contributions can come together that explain fundamentals, document practical examples, share observations from different regions, or describe development stages and possible paths. Experiences with transitions, challenges, and intermediate steps also have their place here.
The Closed Cycles section consolidates fundamentals on nutrients, soil life, humus building, water, plants, animals, compost, and farm systems.
It explains how agriculture functions not only through external operating resources but through living interconnections between soil, plants, microorganisms, animals, water, air, sun, and human care.
This is not about completely closed systems.
Agriculture always remains embedded in landscapes, regions, social relationships, and material flows.
Closed cycles therefore describe a direction of development:
Nutrients, carbon, water, and organic matter should be kept in the system as long as possible, meaningfully transformed, and made fertile again.
This section is not intended as a finished handbook but as a growing knowledge space.
It aims to make regenerative agriculture in the TEIKEI network more understandable, tangible, and further developable.
Not as an ideology.
But as concrete agricultural practice with a future.
Practical reports document experiences from real agricultural contexts.
They show:
Here, experiences from vineyards, olive groves, vegetable farms, fruit systems, agroforestry projects, or pasture landscapes can be collected.
However, practical reports do not replace the main location for a crop. A practical report from a vineyard can be documented here, but the technical classification of viticulture remains in the viticulture chapter.
This section describes the role of animals, compost, manure management, grazing systems, and integrated cycles within agricultural systems.
The focus is not on isolated production branches but on living farm systems.
Topics in this section include, among others:
Agriculture does not take place under the same conditions everywhere.
This section describes structural differences between landscapes, regions, and farm types.
These include, among others:
This section helps to view agricultural reality in a differentiated way and to classify developments within their respective regional context.
Classification is always based on the primary agricultural system form.
Methods, development paths, and ecological principles are described as supplements, but the main classification remains stable.
This keeps the wiki clear, well-organized, and easily expandable in the long term.
The "Cultivation, Production, and Agricultural Practice" section is not a finished handbook.
It is a growing knowledge space for:
Over time, a shared archive will emerge here for:
This makes visible how diverse agriculture can be within the TEIKEI network—and how a resilient network for the future emerges from individual farms, crops, and landscapes.
One level up: 01 - Growers, Farms, and Producers
Author: Felix Schröder, with assistance from AI (ChatGPT)
Created: 2026-03-14 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Questions or suggestions? support@teikei.us