How flowering islands can make fields barrier-free and connect habitats better than conventional flower strips
How flowering islands can make fields barrier-free and connect habitats better than conventional flower strips Freising. Flower strips at the edge of fields make sense and have long been a familiar sight. But just a few meters beyond that, the habitat for butterflies and wild bees often ends again. In many places, the distances to the next oasis are too great when a "treated" field represents an insurmountable barrier. In addition to flowering strips and natural habitats, flowering islands in the middle of fields therefore represent a small revolution in modern arable farming. This is because they break through the usual structures directly in the field. Using the innovative and biodiverse field advertising of ERDINGER WEISSBRÄU in the north of Munich as an example, we explain the principle of logo cultivation with native flowers in the middle of conventional cultivation and compare the habitat for insects with a "normal flowering strip". The field selected for the huge ground picture is located to the west of Achering (Freising) and is perfectly visible on approach. But flowering islands in the form of...
High-tech startup GEOXIP: Geobranding and success are teamwork.
High-tech startup GEOXIP: Geobrandings and success are teamwork. Thanks to everyone who supports us! Awards and accolades for the world's largest wildflower logo. The world's largest sports branding, the world's largest brewery logo with fields and wildflowers... the idea behind it all is to develop precision technology for wildflower cultivation and to grow high-precision wildflower logos with native plant species worthy of protection instead of simple flowering strips. This benefits nature, as we connect biotopes and bring back wild bees and diversity. Our business model also rewards farmers who are committed to biodiversity and can register with us as GEOXIP partners completely free of charge. Customers become genuine and honest nature sponsors. Because geoglyphs with native field and wild flowers and all the diversity of insects and blossoms can be experienced up close from below. Here in our homeland. It all makes sense because everyone benefits! One or two major investors smiled mildly at us on the starting line. After all, we fit in...
Largest flowering strip in the world with insect favourites
Largest flowering strip in the world with wildflowers Munich. Under the nature sponsorship of the Dachau Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken, what is possibly the world's largest flowering strip has been created over an area of more than 58,000 square meters, with more than 27 bee lovebirds, wildflowers and wild herbs and additions of wild sage, wild chamomile, etc. Anyone passing by this field will be amazed. Anyone passing by this field will never cease to be amazed. Most people have probably never experienced such a splendor of flowers accompanied by the incredibly intense scent of wild herbs and berries in their entire lives. Such intensive smells of wild herbs accompanied by thousands of buzzing insects one knows at most as a wanderer of the wild and original Macchia of Corsica or Sardinia. On German monocultures, one looks for this biodiversity and the joy of the variety of sensory impressions, in any case, mostly in vain. The German startup GEOXIP AG has taken up the cause of the return of nature and true sustainability with GPS-supported high-tech. Companies can...
Have we forgotten nature?
Have we forgotten nature? Right now I'm standing in the middle of millions and millions of wildflowers and I'm just overwhelmed. But what impresses me most among all the blossoms is the incredibly intense scent of berries - I can't describe it any other way. Have we forgotten nature, I ask myself? Never before has my sense of smell perceived something so beautiful. In times long past, all flower meadows must have smelled like this. Today we don't know that anymore. And also the variety of plants has somehow become strange to us. Today, among my friends, hardly anyone can identify more than 5 wildflowers - apart from farmers. But even farmers remain amazed in front of this field. Because "normal flower strips" are much smaller and above all reduced to the essentials. What blooms is what is cheap, standardized or prescribed by the EU. On a field of several hectares in the north of Munich, we have a mixture of...
What is actually blooming here?
Field advertising: What's actually blooming here? June 2022. Most agricultural fields have long since become a monoculture. There is little food for insects and diversity - apart from the mandatory flowering strips. This makes the VR-Bank field all the more eye-catching. Not only to walkers or air travelers. But above all insects, which can enjoy the rich diversity of plants. Our client deliberately chose to forego precise color reproduction in favor of a colorful and unique variety of flowers. Anyone who looks at the field up close not only sees a breathtaking flower meadow, but is amazed to hear the buzzing and humming of many insects in almost any weather. Even wild bees have settled here in large numbers. Many - even experienced farmers - have asked us again and again what we have grown here. After all, such a variety of plants is practically unheard of in today's agricultural world. And of course, such a flower mixture costs about 20x...