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It’s apple-picking time on the Maxin family farm in Altes Land, Germany’s fertile orchard region west of Hamburg. The land was reclaimed from the Elbe River delta by Dutch settlers in the twelfth century and has been growing fruit for Germany and Europe for the last seven hundred years. Some ten million fruit trees are planted on around 40 square miles, 90 percent of them apple trees, creating one of the largest fruit-growing regions in northern Europe. The Maxins practice biodynamic agriculture, a type of holistic organic agriculture developed by German philosopher Rudolf Steiner in the early twentieth century that combines chemical-free agriculture with environmental and social goals for a more ethical way of farming.

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It’s apple-picking time on the Maxin family farm in Altes Land, Germany’s fertile orchard region west of Hamburg. The land was reclaimed from the Elbe River delta by Dutch settlers in the twelfth century and has been growing fruit for Germany and Europe for the last seven hundred years. Some ten million fruit trees are planted on around 40 square miles, 90 percent of them apple trees, creating one of the largest fruit-growing regions in northern Europe. The Maxins practice biodynamic agriculture, a type of holistic organic agriculture developed by German philosopher Rudolf Steiner in the early twentieth century that combines chemical-free agriculture with environmental and social goals for a more ethical way of farming.

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