Landscape maintenance yard
The landscape maintenance farm (see also landscape maintenance ) is a nature conservation institution that wants to preserve historically grown cultural landscapes and thereby also has a creative influence on the natural and cultural-historical characteristics of the open landscape. Examples of such landscape types are the Hutewald , the heathland , the moor landscape or the landscape park based on the principles of the Ferme Ornée .
aims
The main goals of a landscape maintenance farm are the environmentally friendly management of agricultural areas and the maintenance of the existing cultural landscape through grazing. As a rule, stocks ( cattle , sheep , goats ) from old breeds of farm animals are used, as these are usually more robust than modern, economically optimized species. At the same time, the use of these farm animal breeds, which are often threatened with extinction, is linked to their breeding and thus their conservation. Examples are the Bentheimer Landschaf , the Thuringian forest goat or the Vosges cattle .
Other goals of a landscape maintenance farm are the preservation of old cultures and varieties for posterity. As a rule, the farms are managed ecologically and with the help of special care measures, which benefits the location-typical animal and plant species.
activities
Through targeted grazing in connection with mechanical maintenance work, attempts are made to counteract the onset of succession on the areas and to promote the botanical diversity of the landscape. By including already bushy, covered or wooded areas in the respective landscape types, conditions are created that z. B. also secures the necessary habitats for ground-breeding bird species.
Landscape maintenance farms are often operated in cooperation with educational and further training institutions that look after, qualify and secure jobs for low-skilled or disabled people within the framework of landscape maintenance measures.
Landscape maintenance farms
- Landschaftspflegehof Seeland (Landschaftswerk Biel-Seeland)
- Landscape Park and Hofgut Imsbach ( Tholey , Saarland )
- Landscape care center Tütsberg ( Lüneburg Heath )
- Landscape care center Holstein Switzerland ( Dannau )
- Müritzhof Landscape Care Center ( Mecklenburg Lake District )
- Ramsbrock Landscape Care Center (near Bielefeld )
- Frankenhardt Landscape Care Center ( Hohenlohe )
- Landschaftspflegehof Klaffl ( Gobelsburg , Austria )
- Landscape maintenance with bite ( Sulz am Neckar )
literature
- Robert Seegers: The landscape care yard . Practiced nature conservation, landscape maintenance and alternative source of income for farmers. Revised u. exp. Version. Self-rel. d. Autors, 1988. 51 S., Fig., Tab., Ktn.
- Wolfgang Lomer, Renate Koppen (eds.). Gardening and landscaping . New edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, 478 pages, ISBN 978-3-8001-1177-0
- Farmer creates diversity. Agriculture that promotes nature in practice. Bonn: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, 2007, 104 pp., ISBN 978-3-00-025857-2
- Sarah Fuchs, Karin Stein-Bachinger: Nature conservation in organic farming . Bioland Verl., Mainz 2008, 144 pages, ISBN 978-3-93423-935-7
Web links
- German Association for Landscape Management eV
- Foundation for Ecology and Agriculture
- Institute for Agroecology and Biodiversity
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goats as landscape maintenance. Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment
- ^ Landscape work Biel-Seeland
- ↑ Download the book ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12.6 MB)
