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Moving Meadow

Authority

Ministerium für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Baden-Wurttemberg

Contact

Kernerplatz 10
70182 Stuttgart

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

Moving Meadow

Project description

The moving meadow is a farming System that promotes nature Conservation on a large scale and at the same time
uses it to increase the productivity of e.g. food in the following years.
These goals are achieved by alternating Strip cultivation, with alternating 36 meter wide field Strips and 18 meter
wide meadow Strips. The meadow Strips can be sown at the beginning with clover-grass seed at double row
spacing and native plant species are established in the gaps by transferring mulch from speciec rieh meadows.
The meadow growth can be transported away as hay or silage as usual, or alternatively transported as transfer
mulch with the forage harvester to the adjacent field Strip in order to increase the humus content there. Within four
years, the meadow strips are broken up on one side and re-seeded on the other side so that there is no conversion
to permanent grassland. Thus, the meadow strips move through a large field over the years and serve the
creatures as a source of food and retreat in the immediate vicinity of the field strips.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Results focusing on practiceorientation

The humus content in the soil is to be increased through the perennial growth of the meadow strips and through
the transfer mulch to the adjacent field strips. The costs for e.g. working time, machines and fuel are reduced.
Erosion and heat protection through covered soil field strips using transfer mulch.
Increase in water storage and water infiltration in soil. Can be combined with Keyline design. Here the strips are
laid across the slope.
Utilization of clover grass in farms without livestock and reduction of fertilizers for biovegan production possible.
Higher activity of the soil biology through transfer mulch, which is also the food base of larger creatures.
By transferring mulch from permanent grassland, native plants can settle between the clover-grass rows sown at
double row spacing on the meadow strips without buying external flowering seed mixtures.
Preparatory work for the creation of a new FAKT measure.

Key words

  • Soil
  • Landscape/land management
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

OG contact information

Schmid, Wilfried
Weiherhof 1
72401 Haigerloch-Owingen

Phone: 017662159445

Email: schmid.ow@gmail.com

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Researcher

Begin of project

2023

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

137,200

Link 1

project video

Link 2

project website EIP Baden-Württemberg

NUTS3 CODE

DE143

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