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Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (born 29 November 1942 inSpenge)[1][2] wasMember of the European Parliament for theGerman political partyAlliance 90/The Greens, part of theEuropean Greens, from 1984 to 1987 and 1989 to 2009, and from 1996 to 2012 chairperson of theArbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft [de] (ABL),[3][4] an association for peasant-based or family-farming in Germany.[5]
Graefe zu Baringdorf owns and operates the farm "Berninghof" in Baringdorf, a small ribbon-built village in the municipalitySpenge. The family farm traces its heritage back several centuries. In 1992, he converted the farm toecological farming. Potatoes, bread cereals and vegetables grow on the fields, and pigs and chickens give meat and eggs.[6] The produce is marketed primarily in the shop on the farm itself and via stands on street markets inBielefeld and nearby Spenge.
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