Care and Cultivation

At Bioforce, the Echinacea plants are cut with great care, usually starting just after sunrise as this is the time when they contain the highest level of active substances.

Each autumn, we collect Echinacea purpurea seeds to create the new stock of spring seedlings. These are planted out by hand in our organic fields where the Swiss climate is ideal for cultivating strong, healthy Echinacea plants.

The vigorous plants which flower in our fields each summer are a clear testimony to the organic farming methods Vogel always used. He would not permit insecticides, fungicides or chemical fertilisers to be applied to any of his herbs - a principle we follow to this day.

Within a very few hours of harvesting our Echinacea plants find themselves at the first stage of their journey to becoming a fresh herb tincture. This transformation uses a time honoured and painstaking processing method.

The result of this careful and gentle handling from seed selection, through organic cultivation, to the use of fresh herbs and the creation of tincture filled with all the active substances, is the world renowned, holistically standardised Echinaforce.


		Care and Cultivation At Bioforce, the Echinacea plants are cut with great care, usually starting just after sunrise as this is the time when they contain the highest level of active substances. Each autumn, we collect Echinacea purpurea seeds to create the new stock of spring seedlings. These are planted out by hand in our organic fields where the Swiss climate is ideal for cultivating strong, healthy Echinacea plants. The vigorous plants which flower in our fields each summer are a clear testimony to the organic farming methods Vogel always used. He would not permit insecticides, fungicides or chemical fertilisers to be applied to any of his herbs - a principle we follow to this day. Within a very few hours of harvesting our Echinacea plants find themselves at the first stage of their journey to becoming a fresh herb tincture. This transformation uses a time honoured and painstaking processing method. The result of this careful and gentle handling from seed selection, through organic cultivation, to the use of fresh herbs and the creation of tincture filled with all the active substances, is the world renowned, holistically standardised Echinaforce.