Die Grüne

die grüne was founded in 1864. At that time under the title Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung, from 1873 as Schweizerische Landwirtschaftliche Zeitschrift.

It was a time when new knowledge about agriculture was emerging everywhere – at universities, in laboratories, at the agricultural schools that were springing up all around, and through tinkerers who simply tried things out.

Teachers, pastors, liberal politicians and agronomists tried to make this new knowledge about animal husbandry, crop production, agricultural technology and farm management (which of course was not called that at the time) known among Swiss farmers.