With assistance from Stichting Centrum voor Landbouw en Milieu (CLM), they will make what they hope are simple but effective improvements, including new plantings, nest boxes for birds of prey and owls, so-called bee-hotels and bat-boxes.
CLM said sowing the field edges with wild flowers was an important development in terms of creating a more natural farmland environment, not only because it increases biodiversity, but also because it improves water quality, stimulates population growth in birds, bees and butterflies, and makes the landscape more attractive.
As reported by esmmagazine.com, in the provinces of Flevoland, Noord-Brabant, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland, 35 growers have already planted more than 20 km of such field edges. The first of these are now apparently in bloom with fragrant herbs, grasses and summer flowers.
