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More and more farms are giving up or are heavily in debt. Young farmer Marie Woeste from Lüdenscheid is not deterred by this and is making her dream come true. With microfarming! She is taking over her father's 600 year old farm and is turning it around. She has found a way to lead the family farm profitably into the future - without major debts and investments. She grows an extremely large amount of vegetables on a very small area. At the same time, she keeps all production costs as low as possible. The crops are grown by hand and with simple, mechanical equipment. You can now see exactly how microfarming works, whether it is worthwhile in practice and what plans Marie has for the future in a new episode of WDR Lokalzeit Land.Schafft.! ____ Table of contents: 00:00 Introduction: Marie Woeste 00:36 Young farmer leads a 600 year old farm into the future 01:00 Why does Marie want to turn the farm around? 01:27 Microfarming: Small areas with high yields 02:01 Why microfarming? Advantages 02:24 Microfarming in practice 03:17 Soil plays an important role 04:07 Keep production costs as low as possible 05:10 Use working time efficiently 05:41 Biodiversity and soil fertility 07:03 How lucrative is microfarming? 07:42 In the field: Future prospects 08:12 Fruit trees as an additional source of income - with agroforestry 09:00 Organic chicken farming 09:21 Family reaction 09:59 Marie's plans for the future 10:41 Like, comment, share, subscribe! ____ Check out our video about radical farm takeovers here: • Radical farm takeover: Byee Schwei... ____ You can find even more interesting topics from agriculture on our website: https://1.ard.de/landwirtschaft ____ We are #Lokalzeit Land.Schafft., the WDR YouTube channel where people with agriculture in their DNA are at home! Every Sunday at 10 a.m. we take you to a modern farm in North Rhine-Westphalia. We show you what the farmers next door are coming up with to secure the future of their farms. Inspiring family stories, appreciative and entertaining. Don't want to miss a video? Then give us a subscribe! ???? _____ Do you have any topic suggestions for us? Then send us an email to: [email protected] _____ Author: Julia Arns Camera: Max Bergmann, Ilja Wittenberg Editing: Uwe Gürtler ???? Editors: Annika Jürgens, Louisa Meisterernst, Bojana Beste, Anna Lena Meinheit ______ Imprint: https://www1.wdr.de/impressum/index.html Data protection declaration: http://www.wdr.de/k/datenschutz Produced with ???? and your broadcasting fee. #WDRLokalzeit