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0:08i'm marco i'm one of the founding members of Tedder and we're an agricultural cooperative that's working

0:15off a hectare and a half of lands really in the heart of Luxembourg 15 minutes away from city centre a Luxembourg

0:25imports over 98% of its vegetable consumption and any farming that does take place here is highly subsidized and

0:35not really a profitable economic model so what we wanted to do is to show that it is possible to first of all make a

0:43living from a small-scale farm as well as produce local fresh organic produce

0:49something that is not very common and there is a demand for the three pillars

1:01to Terre one is the production of fruit and vegetables the second part is education and then the third pillar would be this whole community building

1:10which is done by a for example giving the possibility to interns volunteers to come and help out and see how things are

1:18done we're not a not-for-profit we're not a standard enterprise we are a

1:25cooperative which is a juridical statute here in in Luxembourg basically anyone that buys shares or social parts we call

1:34them has a right to participate in in in the decision-making of the co-operative it doesn't necessarily mean that it's the people consuming the veggies that

1:41are buying social parts ideally so a person can be both the way we manage to within the first month raise 40,000

1:50euros which is what we needed to get things going was by doing this cooperative we currently have 250 members and that's

1:59the amount we need to make ends meet the baskets account for maybe 90% of the income 6 7% is education that's the way we want

2:09it we want to show that it's the production that's keeping us going and securing our salaries and not the education or the anything else

2:19I would dread to think of a harvest day where there's stuff to be harvested with the greens harvester and this not

2:26working suddenly this the same job that was taking us up to two hours it can be done

2:31literally in like 10 to 15 minutes today

2:39we have two pickups happening at the same time one here and one in the southern part of the city we're going to

2:46put up the boxes with the vegetables in order and we're going to ride on the board this amount of zucchinis to get this amount of tomatoes and the members

2:54just basically walk around help themselves especially tomatoes they love to choose like look at them do I want to yellow one do I want to strike one one

3:02to black one or so so it's for them also pleasure of choosing their vegetables

3:09the three of us soap it's often I are the other founding members and are also the three people that are earning a

3:16salary and then we always have apprentices ranges from one to two that are doing this three-year program so

3:23there are three days here on the farm and two days in school that's the core team around that there's interns that

3:30come for anything up to four months we have from refugees to people from here to elder people to younger people to

3:38students to apprentices that travel from far away men women everyone

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3:56we all have a time frame so we work eight hours when those eight hours are up we we have a life to go back to we have families to go back to and the fact

4:05that we are a team gives us this ability to be able to for example take off for two weeks and go off on a holiday that

4:14we wanted that I wanted to go with my family or that someone else wanted to go that has been fundamental to our success

4:22in a way do not do it alone do it in a team it makes it divides the sorrows and

4:29multiplies the pleasures even if you are doing it alone or whether you're doing

4:36them with someone doesn't matter find that balance between work and play make sure there's other things in your life that are equally if not more

4:43important than than this I think that's very healthy and the most beautiful part is obviously

4:52the the friendship the friendship the growing spirit of community people that come on a regular basis that's just the

4:59most gratifying I guess there's nothing more comforting than a nice salad that we share at lunchtime with people that

5:06you love and yeah you get nourished not only in terms of what you eat but also in terms of the connections and the

5:14conversations that you're having it's really a place of life of blossoming