Empowering Communities through the CSA approach – Daniel Überall / Kartoffelkombinat
In this episode, we talk with Daniel Überall about the “Kartoffelkombinat,” a cooperatively organized community supported agriculture (CSA) initiative that has been distributing vegetables to the Munich region since 2010. Around 2,000 households receive fresh vegetables from their own production every week. But the project is about far more than food security: the Kartoffelkombinat sees itself as a response to alienation: a space where proximity, participation, and responsibility can come to life.
Daniel shares how an idea grew into a movement that connects agriculture, democracy, and everyday life. He reflects on the challenges of scaling, on communication as a tool for building community, and on what happens when people take their food supply into their own hands.
An episode about empowerment, building solidarity-based structures, and reimagining how agriculture can be organized beyond traditional markets.