[2] During the 1920s, a number of agricultural movements began with the goal of countering the effect of industrialization and globalization on food production.

The Jungbauernbewegung was founded in 1923 in Grosshöchstetten to provide poor Swiss farmers with agricultural techniques requiring only local resources.

With his wife Maria and German physician Hans Peter Rusch, Müller began developing agricultural theories based on a closed, organic cycle.

In 1974, the association was renamed Fördergemeinschaft organisch-biologischer Landbau e.V.. At first, it used the brand name Dr. Müller Bio Gemüse for products sold in Reformhaus food stores.

The idea parallels an EU initiative where all eggs must bear a number which can be entered on a website for details of their origin.