¶ Integration into the TEIKEI Network
This page describes a potential interface between Humus Currency and TEIKEI communities.
It does not describe an existing system,
but rather a concrete vision for the future:
Around a pickup location, a village, or a regional community, a humus mound emerges that is built, maintained, and refined according to the principles of bio-cyclic humus soil.
From this humus mound, not only soil fertility arises,
but also a local value cycle.
¶ Core Idea
A TEIKEI location is more than a logistical pickup point.
It is a social space where people take responsibility:
- Organizers provide spaces
- Members contribute time
- People engage in conversations with municipalities and local leaders
- Others help with distribution, maintenance, communication, or development
- Regional relationships form
This transformation work is essential but often remains invisible in conventional monetary systems.
Humus Currency could help make such contributions visible and locally balanced.
¶ The Humus Mound as a Local Value Core
This is how it could be: The image shows a vision for the future, not an existing system. Around the humus mound, a local cycle emerges.
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The TEIKEI community builds and maintains the humus mound.
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Five types of contributions flow into the humus mound:
- Organic material
- Maintenance and refinement
- Organization and spaces
- Time and conversations
- Building regional relationships
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The local humus mound collects these contributions.
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From it, bio-cyclic humus soil is created. It works in two directions (5 and 6).
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The humus soil enables local food.
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The contributions are documented as humus values.
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The food serves the nutrition of the community.
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The humus values create compensation for contributions.
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Both lead back to the community (1).
How to read the image: Box 9 represents the two return paths from 7 and from 8 to the TEIKEI community at the top. This closes the cycle: The community is nourished and receives compensation for what it contributes.
¶ Making Local Value Creation Visible
The humus mound connects ecological and social contributions.
It makes visible that value is not only created in the field,
but also through:
- Organization
- Spaces
- Conversations
- Coordination
- Building trust
- Village contacts
- Care work
- Educational work
- Regional networking
These contributions can be documented in humus values.
¶ Humus Values as Local Compensation
Members of a community would have shares in the value created locally.
These values could have two directions:
- Access to local food
- Compensation for contributions made to the community
This creates a local cycle:
Organization
→ Humus mound
→ Humus soil
→ Food
→ Humus values
→ Community compensation
¶ Connection to the TEIKEI Agora
The TEIKEI Agora could make such local humus values visible.
Possible approaches include:
- Humus credits for contributions
- Documentation of local value creation
- Assignment to a community
- Connection with harvest shares
- Compensation for organizational work
- Visibility of transformation work
The Agora would not become a financial product,
but rather a documentation and trust structure.
¶ A Humus Mound for Every Community
The central idea is:
Every TEIKEI community can develop a local currency cycle around a real humus mound.
This cycle remains:
- Regionally anchored
- Community-driven
- Ecologically effective
- Socially permeable
- Tied to real nutrition
The value does not lie abstractly somewhere in the system.
It lies visibly in the soil on site.
¶ Open Development Space
This idea is not yet a finished model.
It describes a possible direction for how TEIKEI communities could connect local supply, soil building, and accounting.
The following would need to be clarified, among other things:
- Legal framework conditions
- Quality assurance of the humus soil
- Documentation of contributions
- Local rules for humus values
- Connection to the Agora
- Relationship to existing harvest shares
- Responsibility for maintenance and use
¶ Key Point
The integration of Humus Currency into the TEIKEI network does not begin with an abstract system.
It begins with a humus mound.
At a location.
With a community.
With people who build soil, enable food, and take responsibility for one another.
¶ Further Information & Understanding Contexts
One level up: Humus Currency
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: 2026-05-08 · Last updated: 2026-05-08 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us