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Children & youth, Festivals
World field season opening
Sunday, 11/05/2025 / 11:00 AM / Tier-Natur-Erlebnispark Mundenhof (animal habitat Mundenhof)
On Sunday, the season for the Weltacker at Mundenhof will be opened with a small festival at 11 am. To mark the occasion, there will be free public tours of the area at 11.15 am and 2 pm. The Südufer Choir will also be performing at 12.30 pm. Coffee, cake and snacks will be available for visitors. Anyone who wants to can get seedlings for a donation. There will be a painting table and a field rally for younger guests.
The Weltacker is located at the rear of the Mundenhof, in the direction of the central feeder road, behind the alpaca enclosure. The way there is signposted from the farm restaurant.
The Weltacker is run by a voluntary association and is an educational project on the subject of sustainable nutrition and land justice. And that's the point: 1.6 billion hectares of arable land are available worldwide - enough for 8.22 billion people (as of today). That's around 2,000 square meters per person. That is exactly the size of the world's acreage at Mundenhof. Everything a person consumes in a year must grow here: Grain for bread, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, coffee, cocoa, oil plants, sugar beet, as well as fodder such as maize and soy for the animals whose meat, milk and eggs we consume. Cotton for clothing, luxury foods such as tobacco and energy crops (e.g. for bio-gas) also need their place on this land. Environmental experts at the United Nations have calculated that it takes as much as 4,000 square meters of arable land to grow the food that every European currently consumes. This means that people in other regions have less land at their disposal.
The 45 most important arable crops worldwide are grown to scale on the 2,000 square meters of the world field. This makes the land consumption of a single person visible. Substitutes are planted for species that do not thrive in the local climate (cotton, sugar cane, etc.).
Many important current and future issues relating to agriculture, climate change, species extinction, soil fertility and food sovereignty can be made tangible using the world field. There is an exhibition on the site that can be visited at any time. In addition to interesting facts about the crops grown, there is also background information on topics such as seeds and soil fertility. The World Field also invites visitors to experience the diversity of cultivated plants with all their senses and enjoy the abundance.
Public or bookable guided tours and educational programs for school classes are offered from May to October. More information can be found on the association's homepage.
