It’s Friday and I’m on my way to the Maybachufer market. It’s the peak of tomato season (my favorite season). Every week I scour the markets for new varieties, interesting colors and flavors. I stop at the colorful Landware stand. Here I find everything my heart desires: fresh and regional fruit and vegetables from sustainable cultivation in Groß Beuchow in the Spreewald. Fennel, cauliflower, zucchini, exotic eggplant varieties, dill, chard and potatoes. And the tomatoes: yellow, green, red, ox hearts. At the stand, I reminisce about my childhood at my grandparents’ farm in Brandenburg. The Landware Nursery is located in the middle of the Spreewald. Steven Raabe, himself from Lübbenau, and his team started in 2020 and now run the nursery with indoor and outdoor areas for traditional sustainable cultivation, as well as the vertical Tower Farm since 2022. They are cultivating a new method that they see as having the potential to solve problems in the future food supply. For those who can’t make the trip to the market for everyday reasons, Landware offers seasonal vegetable boxes that can be ordered in various sizes. These are freshly harvested from the Spreewald: for self-collection (depot in Lübbenau and Berlin) or right to your doorstep, every week, year round. Visit Landware on the farm in the Spreewald or at the market on Maybachufer and try the fresh fruit and vegetables for yourself.
Text: Milena Kalojanov / Photos: Landware
Landware, market at Maybachufer, Maybachufer, 10347 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Landwarenhaus Groß Beuchow, Beuchower Hauptstr.10, 03222 Lübbenau–Spreewald; map
@landware.de
