Geinsheim · 65468 · Hessisches Ried · since 2026
Site code 6116-301 · two kilometres south-west of Geinsheim
Topographic sheet 6116 Oppenheim
Aerial view · strip-fields and old loop
Protected-area network around Trebur
Since 2024 the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive has required audit-ready sustainability reporting against the European Sustainability Reporting Standards. We address all five environmental topical standards (E1–E5) — auditable and data-ready.
Humus build-up, reduction of N₂O emissions from fertiliser, fewer fossil-fuelled machine hours.
CO₂e reduction · t/ha/year
No more pesticide or nitrogen inputs into the soil and groundwater of the Ried catchment.
Reduction · kg N/ha/year
Protection of groundwater availability in a region that supplies drinking water to Rhine-Main.
m³ protected yield / year
Habitat for wild bees, pollinators, soil fauna and ground-nesting birds. Habitat indicators.
Habitat index · Δ species count
No synthetic fertiliser, locally closed seed loops, regenerative land use.
Input reduction · %/ha
A note on double materiality: our measures address both impact materiality (effect on the environment) and financial materiality (de-risking supply chains exposed to water and climate stress). Both perspectives are documented in our report.
Tailored packages with ESRS E1–E5 impact data and genuine HKV ecological credits from our eco-account. Volumes, reporting depth and evidence formats are agreed before contract — so the data is actually usable by your external auditor.
30-min introductory call · free of charge
Farmer · founder, MeFloTec GmbH · ried-natur.com
Action, not just talk.
On this farm, for seven generations and counting — without a break.
I grew up in Geinsheim, on a farm that has been in our family for more than seven generations. What we now call "regenerative agriculture" was never a marketing label here. It was a series of concrete decisions someone had to take. Each one began with an observation in our own fields. Not one came out of a book.
The milestones that follow are only the most recent — the ones I was there for myself or that my father still documented. Anything earlier is written in the old maps of this region that we showed further up the page.
Each step alongside the impact we can actually evidence today. Not claims — soil science.
No more ploughing.
My father changes our tillage system — no more inversion ploughing. Almost unknown in the Ried at the time, now internationally recognised as conservation agriculture. Twenty-six years on, the soil is simply not the same soil.
Compost with a purpose: building the clay-humus complex.
We start applying matured compost on a continuous basis — not just as bulk organic matter, but deliberately to build the clay-humus complex. Clay minerals and humus bind via divalent cations (Ca²⁺) into stable aggregates. It sounds like a textbook, but it works in the field:
Peas: nitrogen from the air, not from a bag.
We add field peas to the rotation. Peas are legumes, living in symbiosis with nodule bacteria (Rhizobium leguminosarum) and fixing nitrogen straight from the air. What conventional farms buy in as energy-intensive mineral fertiliser, the roots do for us — free of charge.
Soya beans: ten years of legume know-how, the next step.
Ten years after the peas, we take a punt on soya beans — long before the Hessen climate was officially deemed "suitable". Our own trials, our own yields, our own data. The basis for my university coursework. Soya fixes another 50 % more nitrogen than peas, with a deeper root and a higher protein yield.
What that means, in today's terms
Over two decades of peas and soya have spared us tonnes of synthetic-fertiliser nitrogen, and with it, tonnes of CO₂ from Haber-Bosch fertiliser production that were simply never emitted.
Order of magnitude: per hectare of legumes per year, ~100 kg of fixed N ≈ ~250 kg CO₂e of avoided fertiliser production. Scaled across 24 years of peas and 14 years of soya: a four-figure kilogramme CO₂e total per cultivated hectare.
Pig fattening wound down — making room for others.
Rising animal-health risks, tougher environmental rules, no future for the enterprise in our region. Rather than stocking more densely we choose the opposite: the stalls become fallow; the fallow becomes habitat. A source of pollution turns into a place for life.
Industrial hemp — a three-year trial, and the founding of MeFloTec GmbH.
A three-year trial with industrial hemp — the subject of my Bachelor's thesis and the basis for founding MeFloTec GmbH. Hemp is the most productive carbon sink among home-grown arable crops, and Germany still has no market that comes close to using its potential.
ried-natur.com — the next step.
Creating habitat for people and wildlife while keeping the value local. No offsetting from overseas, no middlemen in between, no greenwashing trinkets. Concretely: we take land out of intensive use, document the impact scientifically and make it accessible to individuals and organisations.
My base: Treburer Straße 22, 65468 Trebur-Geinsheim. The land in question, and the Habitats Directive site "Riedwiesen von Wächterstadt" that we work with, are only minutes from my desk. That's deliberate: no one knows the site better than someone who lives there and has watched it since childhood.
If you take on a stewardship plot, you come and visit. If you represent an organisation thinking about CSRD, you see the land first. If you regard the old line "conservation becomes credible when somebody puts their name and address behind it" as empty rhetoric — you're in the wrong place.
End-to-end accountability for the land, the contracts and the reports. No subcontractors, no corporate layers in between.
Seventh generation on the same farm. Lives and works where the land lies.
Come and see. We show you the soil, the plots, the mowing dates — no glossy brochures.
Personal, direct, no call centre. Phone, email — or simply drop by.
Give us 30 minutes — we'll work through your CSRD situation and see whether a package from the Hessisches Ried makes sense. No sales pressure.
