This paper gives an overview over German organic vegetable production. The aim is to describe the situation and to analyze development perspectives. A general descrip-tion of actual trends is based on an expert survey: The experts emphasize that there is a broad spectrum of farm sizes and production portfolios. Expected general trends are growth in area and the specialization on fewer crops as well as the focus on few distri-bution channels. In this paper, these prognoses are compared with empirical data from a survey of 112 organic vegetable farms