The campus tours will take place on Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.. We offer three different tours, each of them taking about 75 minutes. The tours start directly after oral session 3 with a welcome address of Prof. Dr. Michael Beck, the head of the Institute of Horticulture at HSWT. Then participants will be divided into three groups (please select your preferred tour (first come, first serve) here). After the campus tour, we will guide you directly to the Bavarian evening at the Bräustüberl (a 10 minute walk from the HSWT campus) to have some food and drinks and nice talks with your colleagues.
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Campus Tour 1: Hydroponics, vertical indoor farming and green roofs
On this tour you will get insight in the Hyp4Blume project for hydroponic cultivation of cut flowers on conventional ebb-flood benches. Then you'll visit the research facilities of the Applied Science Centre (ASC) for Smart Indoor Farming at HSWT. Your last stop will be the newly build lysimeter facility for assessing the mitigation effect of modified extensive green roofs.
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Campus Tour 2: Peat reduction in growing media
On this tour we'll present you some of our recent research on peat reduction in growing media. This includes several model and demonstration projects for growing both ornamentals and vegetable seedlings in commercial horticulture, but also peat free potting soils for consumers. Further topics are new methods for quality assurance of wood fiber and attractiveness of growing media for fungus gnat.
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Campus Tour 3: Paludiculture on rewetted fen sites
On this tour we'll present you current research on establishing paludiculture and the use of the harvested biomass as growing media constituent. You'll visit the research station of the Peatland Science Center of HSWT near Freising with a globally unique automated and self-propelled bonnet measurement system for GHG emissions. Furthermore, the members of the junior research group "Regionally accumulating residual materials and renewable raw materials as peat substitutes: preparation – use – assessment" will present some aspects on processing and use of paludiculture biomass from rewetted fen sites as growing media constituent and its sustainability.