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Employees and tractor at work in a vegetable field, vegetable plants in the foregroundLong rows of tomato plants in the greenhouse, with crates of harvested tomatoes in betweenYellow courgettes being measured by hand with a calliperThe Rathgeb Bio team in the greenhouse between rows of cucumbers
crisp, healthy, organic … naturally

Swiss organic vegetables from Rathgeb Bio.

Rathgeb Bio is a family business in Unterstammheim in the canton of Zurich. In fields and greenhouses we grow over 60 vegetable varieties and potatoes to Bio Suisse quality, process them and deliver them to Swiss retailers.

Today, 0 organic carrots have already left our farm.

We are organic. We are family. And we love vegetables.

We live and work with nature. For healthy soils, plenty of room for beneficial insects and small animals, and for vegetables that reach the plate fresh and to be enjoyed.

Yet we have stayed personal: trusting and on equal terms, for three generations. Towards our customers, our employees and the nature we live from. With still a great deal of manual work, by the way.
crisp, healthy, organic … naturally

More about our approach

Organic with heart, from a single source – from field to delivery.

Although, of course, that isn’t quite true: it takes a great many hands to grow over 60 different vegetables. But as a family we hold the strings together. We steer the processes, take careful care of our soils and, together with everyone involved, ensure the highest quality.

Man bending down in a field planting young plants in the soil
Sowing and planting
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    Bio Suisse Bud (Knospe): the mark of the highest quality.

    Committed to doing better: we have been growing to Bio Suisse guidelines since 1994. Its label, the Bud (Knospe), stands for standards that go far beyond national and European requirements. For us that means ecological farming at the highest level, in every step of the work. And genuinely thinking organic.

    More about organic and our certificates
    Smiling Rathgeb Bio employee with a freshly harvested lettuce
    Sustainability by principle and tradition.

    In the interests of nature: soil, diversity and clean energy.

    Treating nature gently has been one of our most important concerns for over 30 years. We promote beneficial insects together with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), let meadows and flower strips grow, and are an ecological connectivity corridor in Stammertal-Nord. Then there is the technology: solar power, biogas from vegetable trimmings and our own biological wastewater treatment plant for the water we use to wash our carrots.

    Pond with reeds and hedges at the edge of the fields
    A pond for frogs and dragonflies
    Flowering wild carrot in the grass at the edge of a field
    Flowers at the edge of the field
    Brushwood pile in tall grass as a shelter for small animals
    Brushwood pile for hedgehogs and weasels
    Employee putting up an information board at the connectivity corridor
    Stammertal-Nord connectivity corridor
    Hedge with blackthorn next to a pond and meadow
    Hedges connect habitats
    30 million

    crunchy organic carrots leave our farm every year. Laid end to end, they would go around the Swiss border more than three times.

    1'300'000 kWh

    Solar power is generated by our 7’200 m² photovoltaic system every year. That is roughly the consumption of 553 households in Zurich.

    5'000 m³

    Vegetable trimmings are turned into clean energy at the neighbouring biogas plant. The nutrients return as compost to our crops.

    2'800 t

    CO2 savings are what we achieve every year with the wood heating of our greenhouses in Tägerwilen. It also heats the neighbouring Biotta AG.

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    Over 60 vegetable varieties3 generationsBio Suisse since 1994