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Jakob Mayer took over his parents' farm in the Lower Austrian Mostviertel region in 2018 and cultivates 18 hectares of orchards. The farm specialises in extensive fruit production, processing and direct marketing, with wild service berries as the main product.

Otto Knaus runs a 12-hectare organic vineyard in southern Styria and runs a wine tavern. He cultivates 6 hectares of wine and also tends orchards and forests. He is the chairman of Naturpark Spezialitäten Südsteiermark.

Angelina Pucher runs a 5-hectare organic farm with an overall farm nature conservation plan. The Sturm-Archehof is located in Heiligenblut at the Großglockner at 1,300 metres above sea level.

Together with his family, Armin Rauch runs an extensive organic mountain farm at 900 metres above sea level. The farm specialises in cattle breeding, vegetable cultivation with many special varieties and young plant breeding.

If you ask Alexander Steindl, a young organic farmer from Lower Austria, what he specialises in, the answer is: diversity! Different breeds of livestock live on the farm in free-range systems, and Steindl also started with agroforestry in 2020.