The company's purpose is to operate an agricultural business called 'Hofgut Schönthal', which it has leased from the Sculpture at Schönthal foundation at the Schönthal monastery and manages according to the principles and in the spirit of Rudolf Steiner's agricultural course (1924). In particular, the promotion and enhancement of agricultural production and art to form a modern, landscape-related and social total work of art, as stipulated there, shall be the spiritual basis and foundation of the management. The shareholders operate the agricultural business within the framework of the direct payment legislation as a private agricultural business for their own benefit and at their own risk.