Apples from the region

Our guests enjoy apples from the region. This is how we spoil our customers with a healthy and sustainable snack.

1000 varieties of fruit: Meinrad Suter is the treasurer of apples

Meinrad and Marie-Louise Suter grow around 1000 old varieties of fruit in Münzlishausen above Baden to preserve them for posterity. A visit at harvest time. Meinrad and Marie-Louise Suter cultivate 800 old, rare apple and 250 pear varieties on their farm high above the town on the Limmat. They have been doing this with great pleasure since 2003 - and with a commission from the very top: The ‘Münzlishausen Pome Fruit Collection’ is part of Switzerland's national gene bank. It is run in collaboration with Pro Specie Rara and with funding from the federal government. Pomologists visit and record all varieties with photos and detailed descriptions. In two to three years, Suter estimates, the cataloguing could be completed. In official parlance, this is called the ‘National Action Plan for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources’.

(Text: Aargauer Zeitung, Mario Fuchs / Photo: Chris Iseli)