Swiss farmers have played a leading role in the development of organic farming ever since Dr. Rudolf Steiner founded bio-dynamic agriculture in 1924. In the 1940s, Dr. Hans Müller developed the organic-biological method. And in 1974, far-sighted researchers formed the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), with the mission to underpin scientifically the observations made by Switzerland’s organic farming pioneers.
This institutional eco-innovation persists in an attempt to complement the endless expansion of its science campus ETH, a model after MIT. It has started to create what it calls Seed City:
Seed City is a community garden initiative for local waste recycling, food production and biodiversity conservation. The plan is to create a closed-loop system of local vegetable gardens of rare and endangered crop varieties fed with composted waste from the campus, and maintained by a volunteer association of students and staff. It also aims to establish a vegetable delivery scheme with organic producers in the region.
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