MOOSWEIT is the follow-up project to MOOSGRÜN (joint project: peat moss cultivation on raised bog grassland), in which the trials in the Hankhauser Moor (LK Ammerland) are being continued. The trial area (4 ha) successfully established in MOOSGRÜN and the peat moss turf that has grown up allow practical harvesting and regeneration trials to be carried out for the first time. These serve the further development of the production process with near-surface water levels on raised bog grassland, the accompanying research of a complete crop rotation and enable the production of substrates with peat moss biomass from peat moss culture on an industrial scale for the first time. In addition, the pilot area will be increased to approx. 14 ha.

Project partners:

• Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald (EMAU)
• Ramsloh peat plant, Werner Koch GmbH & Co. KG (MoKuRa)
• University of Rostock (UniRo)
• C.v.O. University of Oldenburg

Funding:

• Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection (Nds. Umwelt)
• European Regional Development Fund (EFRE)
• Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)

Funding organisation:

• Investment and Development Bank of Lower Saxony (NBank)
• Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR)

Duration: 01.02.2016 until 30.06.2019

Further information on this project can be found here:

www.moorwissen.de/de/paludikultur/projekte/torfmooskultivierung/moosweit.php