Hands in blue gloves trimming green beans on the belt

We can do more than vegetables.

Preparation, packaging, logistics.

From the field to delivery: Rathgeb BioLog AG in Unterstammheim washes, trims, sorts, packs, stores, picks and delivers organic vegetables and potatoes. Everything from a single source and ISO 9001 certified.

Today, 0 litres of trimmings have already gone to the neighbouring biogas plant.

On the product: quality starts in the field.

Before we wash or pack anything, it is sown, tended and harvested. The quality we later stand behind is created in our fields in the Stammertal and in our greenhouses.

Tractor with planting machine setting young plants in rows — Sowing and planting
Soil is the alpha and omega – or rather, the B and O in Bio. Regional farmers support us with cultivation, in organic quality of course. Machines make us more efficient, but the manual work stays.

Employees weeding on the hoeing rig between the vegetable rows — Tending
Hoeing, weeding, irrigating – and all the time. In the greenhouse, predatory mites, parasitic wasps and bumblebees take care of plant protection. Pest control, organic style.

Employee harvesting lettuce by hand into green crates — Harvesting
We harvest rocket, spinach and carrots by machine, and much else 100 per cent by hand. Cucumbers and salads daily, leafy vegetables in the cool morning hours.

Preparation: washing, trimming, sorting.

Every delivery is checked, weighed and given a batch number. Then it is washed, trimmed by hand and sorted. Because we do without chemical-synthetic agents, washing is mainly about one thing: making sure the vegetables look as crisp as they are.

Cut, mixed, ready to cook? Convenience products are available from our sister company Kellermann.

To the Kellermann range

Employees trimming lettuce by hand at the preparation line

Packaging to customer requirements.

Sorted, trimmed and packed – in the packaging unit that suits each point of sale, and in our customers’ label programmes. Labelled with all producer details so the vegetables can go straight onto the shelf.

Storage at the optimal temperature.

After harvest almost everything is chilled immediately – and stays chilled until it reaches the customer. Carrots and potatoes are stored in our own hall in Unterstammheim. Fresh vegetables, on the other hand, we often do not store at all: they leave on the day of harvest.

Employee with pallet truck in the cold store among stacked green vegetable crates

Order picking: ready for the trade.

We put together our customers’ orders and prepare them for the trade – quantity, variety and container as requested. This way the vegetables reach the shelves without detours.

Employee assembling orders from green vegetable crates onto pallets in the hall

Logistics: transport and container management.

Tomatoes like it above 16 °C, leaf salads just above zero. With our own refrigerated vehicles we maintain the cold chain without interruption. And we manage the containers so that they are where they are needed in good time.