ENVE works in fields related to the European Green Deal, which include the environment biodiversity, circular economy, zero pollution, climate change, energy, and space policies.
Barver sphagnum farm was set up in the Diepholz region under the Interreg CANAPE project to test and demonstrate innovative methods whose consistent use could revitalise the ecosystem services of degraded peatland ecosystems and slow further degeneration.
CANAPE depends on intensive involvement of regional stakeholders and on the wealth of experience of, and synergies with, project partners from the programme area.
Test and demonstration facilities play an important role in the practice of paludiculture, enabling operational processes to be technically and financially optimised, the systems and structures of a recycling chain to be developed, and regional introduction facilitated by building acceptance.
In this context, the purpose of Barver sphagnum farm is to gain experience over the next year with setting up and running a moss farm on degraded raised bogs that are typical for the region:
– requirements and technical basis for setting up a sphagnum farm;
– system management (setting up, watering, maintenance and harvesting);
– financial viability: keeping jobs by producing sphagnum; promoting innovation; sphagnum as a garden plant substrate, as donor material in areas being rewilded, or in special applications;
– public relations work: paludiculture as a climate-friendly, peat-preserving form of agriculture.
