Main topic areas are the garden and nature, sports, fitness, cooking and DIY.

Beginning with the US military government allowing them "to publish books and periodicals", since the association wanted to support its farmers and rural women with technical literature during the reconstruction time after the war.

The BLV developed from agricultural publisher to trade publisher in the 1950s: in 1955, with the first published cookbook "Ich helfe Dir kochen" from Hedwig Maria Stuber which sold 100,000 copies in the first year and has now sold about 3.5 million times, followed by books for hunting and the first mountain tour books by Walter Pause or the South Tyrol-illustrated books by Sepp Schnürer.

At the same time, an extensive sports book program was created, which was gradually expanded with fitness and wellness titles.

The range of how to book grew to be based on all aspects of ornamental and vegetable garden.