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Young farmers rely on species protection

2022-11-29T17:10:30.679Z


Young farmers rely on species protection Created: 11/29/2022, 6:00 p.m By: Henry Dinger Among other things, students of the agricultural school planted fruit trees for a meadow orchard. Also in the picture: Erdinger LBV Chairwoman Ursula Schmidt-Hoensdorf (left), AELF Head Reinhard Menzel (3rd from left), Anton Euringer, Deputy Head of Nature Conservation and Landscape Conservation at the Erdin


Young farmers rely on species protection

Created: 11/29/2022, 6:00 p.m

By: Henry Dinger

Among other things, students of the agricultural school planted fruit trees for a meadow orchard.

Also in the picture: Erdinger LBV Chairwoman Ursula Schmidt-Hoensdorf (left), AELF Head Reinhard Menzel (3rd from left), Anton Euringer, Deputy Head of Nature Conservation and Landscape Conservation at the Erding District Office (5th from left), co-initiator and property owner Carmen Reinstädler (4th from left) as well as farmer Michael Rappold (2nd from right) and Buchs Mayor Ferdinand Geisberger (right).

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Agricultural students pick up spades for a project for more diversity in Buch.

Buch am Buchrain

– Biotopes alone are not enough to preserve biodiversity.

Agriculture is also in demand.

However, it is often criticized as the cause of dwindling habitats.

A project in Buch shows that farmers and conservationists can definitely pull together.

It was created in cooperation with many participants, including the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (AELF) Ebersberg-Erding with the Agricultural School Erding, the State Association for Bird and Nature Conservation in Bavaria (LBV), the landowners Carmen Reinstädler and Marion Oberpriller and farmer Michael Rappold, who also teaches at the agricultural school.

More than 20 students from there were present at the press event in an area measuring 70 by 90 meters at the end of the Lärchenweg.

As part of a project day, they planted eight fruit trees - old apple varieties, cherries, pears - and 70 shrubs.

They should grow into a bird protection hedge and a meadow orchard on the area.

The area is supplemented by areas with herbs and flowering plants.

Winter barley is currently growing on around half a hectare.

Part of the cost of the plants comes from funding from the Office for Rural Development, the rest from the Bird Protection Association.

The owners, Oberpriller and her mother Reinstädler, have given this and another property to the Erdinger LBV district group for use free of charge (we reported).

The initiative for the species protection project came mainly from Reinstädler.

"I've been a conservationist and conservationist for a long time," she said.

She also co-founded the Erdinger district group of the LBV.

And, according to the pensioner, she had been flirting with a nature conservation project together with farmers for a long time.

Rappold, whose father is her cousin, has always been progressive.

A year ago she sat down with him and Ursula Schmidt-Hoensdorf, chairwoman of the LBV district group.

And quickly realized "that the two get along well with each other".

For Reinstädler, who claims with a grin that she has "the reputation of a green spinner", one thing is certain: "We can only work together, not against each other."

According to Schmidt-Hoensdorf, one concern is to settle more insects.

They form the basis for living beings such as birds and amphibians.

Thanks to the bird protection hedge and the flower strips, which are only mowed twice a year, new life should find space.

"There are 17 types of hedge plants alone, and attention was paid to species native to the area so that highly specialized insects can also reproduce." These include rowan berries, wild cherries and wild apples.

There is no fertilization, not even the three meter wide flower strip on the west side, which consists mainly of herbs.

She is now hoping for imitators: "We need more field borders again, which used to be everywhere and which were retreats.

Hares, rabbits and partridges have almost disappeared, but ravens and crows are multiplying.

I am pleased that so many young people from the agricultural college are taking part.

After all, they are our future.”

AELF leader Reinhard Menzel not only thanked the property owners, but also Mayor Ferdinand Geisberger, who also got an idea and emphasized that it was right to bring nature conservation and agriculture together.

In addition, the bookers could now enjoy the growth of the colorful area.

Rappold can see several positive aspects of the project: He has found an area where his students can gain practical experience.

He also wants to farm a nearby field conventionally to show the advantages and disadvantages of conventional and organic farming.

That should be exciting, since the organic area has been emaciated from fertilization for 20 years.

The task now is to help the winter barley grow with organic fertilizer.

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