Self-supply

In our new series of articles, we will be introducing you to the diversity of our vegetable seedling assortments. We are kicking off with OpenSky® fruit vegetables – a selection of particularly robust varieties that are just as impressive in home gardens as they are in professional sales. A glance at the sales figures at lubera.com shows that almost every second vegetable plant sold belongs to the fruit vegetable group – no wonder, as it includes popular vegetables such as...

But how should the self-sufficiency trend now be better addressed in the production and supply of edibles? How, above all, should gardeners be helped to become practical (partial) self-supporters (and not just be amazed by Youtube videos)? Of course, we cannot offer detailed instructions here; each producer's customer profile of resellers also gives rise to different possibilities. However, we strongly recommend to address some of these things in the sales talk with resellers and to offer...

In economic boom times (remember, it was just over a year ago...), self-sufficiency is a luxury product, so to speak: we afford to produce and prepare part of our food ourselves, thus restoring the immediacy and self-control we have lost in the economy based on the division of labour. - In times of crisis, self-sufficiency partly changes its face: long before it really saves money (or rather liquidity), it gives a feeling of security. We can feed ourselves to some extent, we make provisions, the...