Sharing the Harvest – Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
FOOD & FOOTAGE – Independent movies in combination with food
13 MAY 2026 / starting 19:00
ZK/U BerlinSiemensstr. 27, 10551, Berlin, Germany
Agriculture is currently facing a massive crisis. We need new concepts and ideas to produce and consume our food in a more seasonal, regional, organic, and fair way.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) puts this into practice and demonstrates that solutions exist and that paths beyond environmental destruction and profit-driven greed are possible. Supporting the CSA movement and similar community organizational processes become more important than ever in our current context of late-stage capitalism.
Sharing the Harvest tells the story of farmers who are challenging our system’s obsession with growth and breaking free from the structures of conventional agriculture. In this film, filmmaker and activist Philipp Petruch embarks on a journey to three community-supported agriculture (CSA) initiatives in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. They are united by a clear goal: with the help of communities, they are creating a local supply cycle based on the values of ecology and the common good. With courage, a sense of community, and a new relationship between consumers and producers, we can change agriculture. And, in a small way, the world.
Sharing the harvest
by Philipp Petruch
82’
Germany, 2023
German with English subtitles
This event is hosted in collaboration withSoLaWi. People working in agriculture are under immense pressure in the current system. Their livelihoods depend on subsidies and (global) market prices. They have no control over these factors and are forced to push themselves beyond their personal limits, as well as those of nature, soil, water, and animals, or to leave agriculture altogether. Organic farming is not exempt from this mechanism.
SoLaWi creates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model in Germany, where food is no longer distributed through the anonymous market but flows into its own transparent economic cycle, co-organized and fully financed by the consumers.
In support of this mission, ZKU has been a distribution location for the Berlin-based CSA Ackerwesen since 2019. Representatives from Ackerwesen will be at the event to provide more info, answer questions, or help you find the right CSA for you.
The film screening is free of charge; purchasing a meal is not required to attend the movie night.
The price is 15 euros per person (drinks not included). Meals will be made from fresh, local, organic ingredients provided by the farms in Brandenburg that collaborate with Ackerwesen.
Menu: Smashed potatoes with egg and fresh herbs, Green salad with apple, radish, and cress, Baked apples with crispy potatoes
Doors open at 19:00
Dinner will be served at 19:30
The film starts at 20:30
This event is part of EMCCINNO. EMCCINNO is funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement n° 101178706.