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Potatoes and Grains

Finally, potato cultivation has also arrived in the region. Our offer includes a wide variety of high-quality potato varieties. There is something for every taste - try it out! Additionally, our grain is also grown in the neighboring fields of our estate - rapeseed, spring barley, and oats.

Red plastic crate filled with dirt-covered potatoes, with a green, weathered hand rake resting across the pile.

Potatoes - the amazing tuber

The potato made its way from South America to Spain via the Canary Islands in the mid-16th century. And now it has arrived in the Marburg region, as potato cultivation is new in the area. Potatoes are annuals, planted in spring and harvested in autumn.

Close-up of a halved purple potato resting on smooth gray pebbles, its vivid purple flesh contrasting with the muted stones and blurred background.

Violetta

The Violetta impresses with its deep violet color and strong, slightly nutty aroma. Its fine, creamy texture makes it the ideal choice for creative potato dishes.

Cooking property: Predominantly waxy.

White and red label reading 'Rote Emma' sits among burlap and a wicker basket, with a pile of dusty potatoes in the foreground.

Red Emma

This extravagant red-fleshed potato variety has a good spicy taste and is excellent for salads, puree, and boiled potatoes, as well as for making gnocchi.

Cooking property: waxy

Brown potatoes in a rough burlap sack with a white-and-red label reading “Laura” and featuring a tree illustration.

Laura

The Laura is a medium-early, predominantly waxy table potato. This potato variety is characterized by its red skin and deep yellow flesh.

Cooking property: Predominantly waxy

Green plastic basket filled with small, dirt-dusted potatoes outdoors in a garden.

Goldmarie

The Goldmarie impresses with its bright golden yellow color and pleasantly buttery, slightly sweet aroma. Its creamy texture makes it perfect for refined potato dishes.

Cooking property: Predominantly waxy

Close-up of a bright yellow plastic mesh bag filled with brown potatoes, with the woven netting clearly visible.

Annabelle

This waxy early potato is known for its fine taste and thin skin. The yellow-fleshed, starchy, and long-oval variety is particularly suitable for salads, but also as fried or baked potatoes.

Cooking property: Waxy

Brown potatoes spilling from a burlap sack with a white-and-orange label reading Feldfrisch Linda and featuring a tree illustration.

Linda

This yellow-fleshed classic potato variety is particularly aromatic and is very suitable for all traditional potato dishes, fried potatoes, boiled potatoes, jacket potatoes, and gratin.

Cooking property: Waxy

Green plastic basket filled with small, dirt-dusted potatoes outdoors in a garden.

Priska

The Priska is characterized by its golden yellow skin and mild-nutty aroma. Its fine, creamy texture makes it the perfect choice for versatile potato dishes. 

Cooking property: Predominantly waxy

Grain Cultivation: Where the Good Thrives

Grain - Foundation of Life

At Hofgut Dagobertshausen, we place great emphasis on the production of healthy and high-quality food and feed. Our cultivation is characterized by diversity, meaning we do not grow monocultures, but rotate between summer and winter grains as well as leafy and stalk fruits.

Golden harvested field with rectangular hay bales, distant hedgerows and trees, and a road with cars in the background.

Further Processing

Our grain is predominantly processed directly in the region. For example, our rapeseed is used for the production of high-quality edible oils and does NOT end up in the tank. Part of our spring barley is used as malting barley for beer production, another part for baking bread, and the oats for our horses naturally also come from our local fields.

“Tested Quality – HESSEN”

The quality brand “Tested Quality – HESSEN” was developed by the marketing association GUTES AUS HESSEN e. V. together with the state of Hesse. The main goal of this system is to offer consumers high-quality and safe food, whose origin is clearly recognizable. 

The quality brand “Tested Quality – HESSEN” was approved by the European Commission in 2003. 

 

In principle, it applies that mono-products, i.e., unprocessed products such as fruits and vegetables or meat, must come from the specified region to be labeled with the quality brand “Tested Quality – HESSEN”. For processed products, at least the main ingredient, such as the meat in sausages, must come from the specified region. In some regions, the origin can even be specified more narrowly than “Hesse”, e.g., in the Odenwald. There, pigs from the Odenwald are slaughtered in a local slaughterhouse and processed and sold in Odenwald butcheries as meat and sausage products. These products may bear the mark “Tested Quality – ODENWALD”.    

 

It guarantees: 

Official quality seal of Hesse: shield badge with red and white fields, yellow sun, stylized road marks, a lion, and the text “Geprüfte QUALITÄT” and “HESSEN”.

Quality

The companies that are allowed to use this mark for their products must meet additional requirements and quality standards that exceed the legal level. These are prescribed for producers, processors, and marketers. 

Official quality seal of Hesse: shield badge with red and white fields, yellow sun, stylized road marks, a lion, and the text “Geprüfte QUALITÄT” and “HESSEN”.

Safety

The requirements are constantly monitored and secured within the framework of an extensive quality assurance system, so that the high quality, safety, and origin of the products can be proven from the producer to the store shelf. 

Official quality seal of Hesse: shield badge with red and white fields, yellow sun, stylized road marks, a lion, and the text “Geprüfte QUALITÄT” and “HESSEN”.

Traceable Origin

To fulfill the characteristic of “regionality”, the products must mostly come from the mentioned region. Restrictions are possible if some components cannot be sourced from the region or if sourcing within the region would be significantly uneconomical.