Ground2live: Enhancing ground cover on vegetable farms: Living Labs for resource conservation and economic sustainability in agroecological systems
Making open-air vegetable growing more sustainable in Flanders, both for the growers and for society. That is the starting point of the GROUND2LIVE project. The final goals is to get 20% of vegetable growers to implement these practices of regenerative soil management and also get the rest of the chain on board in the interest of the story. Ten vegetable growers, both organic and conventional, who open their farms as pilot farms. Green manure crops are used to keep the soil covered. Green manures in rotation with vegetables is not widely applied, however. By testing alternative applications and cultivation techniques we aim to convince farmers of their usefulness.
ILVO: Koen Willekens
Inagro: Joran Barbry
VLAIO, Project in kader van Agroecology Partnership (1ste oproep)
Vlaams luik: ILVO en Inagro
EU partners: University of Kassel, Inagro, CREA - Ricerca, AARHUS UNIVERSITET, Louis Bolk Instituut, Univerza Mariboru, VOEL, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Landesbetrieb Landwirtschaft Hessen