Landschaftsentwicklung auf den Bauckhöfen (Niedersachsen)

Summary

The study deals with the historical development and today’s appearance of landscape on the three bio-dynamic Bauck-Farms in the Lüneburger Heide-region. In the past 50 years responsible people in charge on the farms conducted a determined rural devel-opment on the farmland. The results of these efforts and the motives of six persons in charge were investigated. In a territory where hedgerows are not very common, 49 hedges where planted within arable fields and the forests were changed from pine tree-monocultures into mixed stands of different tree species. The three leading mo-tives found are a “feeling of being responsible for the countryside”, “following impulses of Rudolf Steiner’s agricultural course” and “to strive for an ecological balance that can be estimated as being beneficial”.