Regional supply landscapes emerge where landscape, people, infrastructure, and responsibility come together.
It is not a single organization that supplies a region, but the interplay of many farms, communities, processing sites, logistics, knowledge, and shared responsibility.
A supply landscape thrives because many system participants contribute their part: farms and CSAs (Community-Supported Agriculture) as well as member stores, farm shops, communities, kitchens, and all those who consolidate, store, and distribute. The image shows who collaborates within a region and how regions connect across countries and Europe. The underlying idea is described on the page European Networking.
How to read the image: The image is read from top to bottom, level by level.
The region sustains. In each region, many different system participants collaborate:
Produce: Farms and market gardens, CSAs (Community-Supported Agriculture), breeders and seed producers, as well as primary suppliers, for example for olive oil.
Regional consolidation in the center: collection and distribution hubs, refinement and processing, logistics and pickup points, coordination via the shared software.
Pass on: Member stores and retail stores, farm shops, and gastronomy take the products and pass them on to their customers.
Source together: Communities, food co-ops, and households, as well as kitchens, canteens, schools, daycare centers, and other institutions.
The double arrows show: goods and demand flow in both directions via regional consolidation.
Support: Partners (foundations, associations, allied networks) and providers (materials, packaging, services) support the region, often without using the software themselves.
Regions connect. Each region is structured as above. Zurich and Freiburg represent regions where supply is created; Italy and Greece represent regions of origin from which, for example, olive oil, nuts, or dried fruits come. The dashed lines show that regions directly exchange goods and knowledge. The regions are examples – the network is open to any region that wants to participate.
The country connects. The national level connects the regions of a country: it coordinates, clarifies legal foundations, and consolidates financing.
Europe protects. At the very bottom, the European level maintains the shared foundation: software, process knowledge, rights, standards, and funds – earmarked and protected from appropriation.
All system participants remain anchored in their region and connect via regional consolidation – not through a central authority. Who belongs to which circle is shown in the Overview of the TEIKEI Network and the term System participant.
Climate, soils, water, culture, history, and people differ. Nevertheless, nearly all regions face similar questions:
Which dependencies do we want to overcome?
Which structures serve life, and which deplete it?
What needs time to heal again?
What responsibility can we take on today?
In the long term, regional supply landscapes develop from several interconnected thematic areas:
Food
Energy
Living space
Community
Water (optional)
Transformation therefore does not mean simply placing something new alongside the existing.
Transformation means gradually growing out of structures that deplete soils, water, people, and communities, and building new relationships that can sustain in the long term.
A supply landscape does not emerge from a grand plan.
It emerges from many small decisions that, over time, coalesce into a different reality.
This changes not only how food is distributed.
It changes the relationship between landscape, farms, communities, and supply.
The goal is not growth.
The goal is a state in which soil, water, farms, and people can sustain permanently, and the landscape is increasingly supplied from its own vitality.
It is the existing network, embedded in a larger European vision. It shows where relationships, pickup points, farms, harvest shares, or initial regional hubs are already visible.
From this, a European networking model can emerge because the principles are similar everywhere. Each region begins with its landscape. Each region sustains what it can. And each region can connect with other regions without losing its own form.
The Nordic countries play a special role within Europe. Large distances, low population density, long winters, and partly widely separated farms place different demands on agriculture, processing, storage, logistics, and supply. Precisely for this reason, important experiences can emerge here on how community-supported supply can be built even outside dense urban areas.
Supply landscapes Europe
├── Foundations of regional supply landscapes
│ ├── Food
│ │ ├── Production
│ │ ├── Processing
│ │ ├── Logistics
│ │ ├── Storage
│ │ ├── Distribution
│ │ └── Nutrition
│ │
│ ├── Energy
│ │ ├── Introduction
│ │ ├── Buildings as energy infrastructure
│ │ ├── The tenant-landlord dilemma
│ │ ├── Energy communities
│ │ ├── Energy sharing
│ │ ├── Tenant electricity
│ │ ├── Energy production
│ │ │ ├── Photovoltaics
│ │ │ ├── Wind energy
│ │ │ ├── Hydropower
│ │ │ ├── Biomass
│ │ │ └── Other energy sources
│ │ ├── Energy storage
│ │ │ ├── Battery storage
│ │ │ ├── Heat storage
│ │ │ ├── Hydrogen
│ │ │ └── Other storage forms
│ │ ├── Energy distribution
│ │ │ ├── Regional power grids
│ │ │ ├── Heating networks
│ │ │ └── Load management
│ │ ├── Financing
│ │ ├── Legal foundations
│ │ └── Digital energy coordination
│ │
│ ├── Living space
│ │ ├── Housing
│ │ ├── Construction
│ │ ├── Land
│ │ ├── Infrastructure
│ │ └── Settlement development
│ │
│ ├── Community
│ │ ├── Forms of organization
│ │ ├── Cooperatives
│ │ ├── Commons
│ │ ├── Culture
│ │ └── Participation
│ │
│ └── Water
│ ├── Drinking water
│ ├── Irrigation
│ ├── Water retention
│ ├── Wastewater
│ └── Water bodies
│
├── Greece
│ ├── Crete
│ └── Tripoli
├── Spain
│ └── Andalusia
├── Portugal
│ ├── Algarve
│ └── Other regions
├── France
│ ├── Alsace
│ ├── Brittany
│ ├── Provence
│ └── Other regions
├── Italy
│ └── Sicily
├── Netherlands
│ ├── Amsterdam
│ ├── Utrecht
│ └── Other regions
├── Belgium
│ ├── Antwerp
│ ├── Ghent
│ └── Other regions
├── Germany
│ ├── Freiburg & Region
│ ├── Leipzig
│ ├── Mannheim
│ ├── Lake Constance
│ ├── Black Forest
│ ├── Upper Rhine
│ ├── Berlin-Brandenburg
│ ├── Wendland
│ ├── Ruhr area
│ ├── Hamburg
│ ├── Cologne-Bonn
│ ├── Munich
│ └── Other regions
├── Switzerland
│ ├── Zurich
│ ├── Basel area
│ ├── Winterthur
│ ├── Bern
│ ├── Lake Geneva region
│ ├── Ticino
│ └── Other regions
├── Austria
│ ├── Vienna
│ ├── Graz
│ ├── Linz
│ ├── Tyrol
│ └── Other regions
├── Nordic countries
│ ├── Logistics solution for remote farms in the Nordic countries
│ ├── Finland
│ ├── Sweden
│ ├── Norway
│ ├── Denmark
│ └── Iceland
└── Other countries and regions
The countries serve only as an initial orientation. The actual supply landscapes emerge beneath them: where landscape, water, soil, farms, processing sites, pickup points, and members enter into relationship.
Between these regions, knowledge, seeds, people, harvest shares, surpluses, processing expertise, and support can flow. Not every region must produce everything itself. What matters is that it becomes visible what is sustained locally, what comes from other regions, and how both can become part of a shared supply.
This turns existing places and partly already connected regions into not a centrally controlled system, but a European network of supply landscapes. The forms can differ. The principles remain related.
In the context of TEIKEI, a simple principle emerges: Europe does not need to be supplied from a center. It can consist of many vibrant supply landscapes that sustain from their own depth. Each landscape has its own rhythm, its soils, its water, its paths, its farms, its people, and its history.
No landscape sustains everything, and none must sustain everything alone. What grows in one place may be lacking in another. What one region does not produce itself can be supplemented by another. This does not create a uniform system, but a living web of places, paths, and responsibility.