Martin Ott

From 1998 onwards, Martin Ott was involved in the conception and development of a highly regarded socio-ecological project in Rheinau on one of the largest and most diverse farms in Switzerland, where he took joint responsibility for the large agricultural enterprise in a tenant community and later also for other emerging enterprises, such as Sativa Rheinau AG, Fintan Fünf, and Hans und Wurst Naturmetzg GmbH. From 1992 he was on the board of trustees and the management of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Frick (FiBL). As a musician, he has performed with his brother Andreas on many small stages in Switzerland since 1986. And in 2012 he became known as the author of the bestselling book «Understanding Cows». At the same time he took over the management of biodynamic farming education in Switzerland and, together with farming and state partners, built it up into a new biodynamic agricultural school in Rheinau. From 2022 Martin Ott has successively handed over all his projects into suitable hands, in many cases to young people whom he has trained himself. He has four grown-up children and seven grandchildren and lives in Uerschhausen in Thurgau.