Our farm, the Engelnhof in Papenburg (Lower Saxony), has been run by our family since 1904. At first as a typical mixed farm with pigs, cows, grain and potatoes. In 1962 we moved from the outskirts of Papenburg to the Aschendorfer Moor, about 3 km away, where I grew up. Here my parents expected a rather barren and rough moor landscape, which later gave one of my cheeses, the Papenburger Moorkäse, its name. My parents started there with about 26 hectares of land. Then as now, a large part of the land is high moorland: 600 m away from the farm we also have a moorland nature reserve as a neighbourhood. Since 1977 we have specialized in dairy farming. A modern dairy cattle shed was built for the conditions of that time. In 1994 I, Ludger Engeln, took over the farm after completing my master thesis. I am the third generation on the farm with my family. At that moment I also started to deal with the direct marketing of milk and artisanal dairy products and gave the farm the name "Engelnhof", after my surname. In 2002 we built our cheese dairy. Since 2012 we have concentrated more on the artisanal production of cheese. In 2016 we built a new, very modern and animal-friendly cow barn. In the same year we started with the organic conversion. Since September 2017 the conversion has been completed and we have been a recognized organic farm since then. Today our team consists of about twelve people. Seven of them are fully employed on our farm. Several of them have been working in the team for over ten years. The liquid manure and dung produced on the farm, all feed residues and renewable raw materials are fermented in our own ecogas plant. The resulting ecogas is converted into electricity and heat in the company's own combined heat and power plants. The electricity is fed into the public grid. The heat is used in our own plant and in a neighbouring nursery. The resulting organic fermentation residue is spread on our fields as a readily usable organic fertiliser. Through a varied crop rotation on our organically farmed, arable land (red clover grass, bush beans, maize, rye and chives) we promote biodiversity and sustainably enhance soil fertility. We do not use any synthetically produced pesticides. This allows us to offer our cows a balanced diet from our own and leased land. When we buy in feed, it comes only from recognized organic farms. A lactating cow eats about 45 kg of "cow muesli" daily and drinks 40-100 litres of water. In summer they go out to pasture. We live in a very humid moorland area and the water supply is therefore unproblematic.