Salad, cabbages, onions

The weeds that can be seen among the cabbages are the only visible sign of organic farming

Galmiz, Fribourg canton, Switzerland, late June.

"This is without a doubt an organic crop, where weeding is limited to manual or mechanic methods, as weedkillers are forbidden. Our company, created in 1948, distributes organic vegetables. We benefited from a strong increase in sales of organic produce between 1994 and 2004. It appears that the demand is now in the process of stabilising around the ten per cent of the population mark."

Ernst Maeder, director of Bio-Gemüse, Galmiz, Fribourg canton, Switzerland

in " Planting patterns ", p. 23