Recipe Living Ground
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | SPLENDOR PLANT AKTIEBOLAG - Svanshall, Jonstorp |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 499 610 |
| Project duration | April 2019 - March 2020 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Challenge-Driven Innovation – Stage 1 initiation |
| Call | Challenge-Driven Innovation stage 1 initiation – 2019 |
Important results from the project
The project Recipe Living Ground aims to ensure vital urban greenery and sustainable circular systems for organic material. The goals are to reduce the city´s diseased and stagnant vegetation by 50%, reduce the climate impact of organic matter by 80% and thus increase ecosystem services from urban greenery. New tests are being developed for plant and soil to promote photosynthesis and symbiosis between plant and micro-life, as well as methods and recipes for revitalizing urban greenery and technologies needed to produce micro-life concentrates and plant biostimulants.
Expected long term effects
The project has successfully shown how a system approach has developed a cultivation system that make the plant more resistant to diseases, increase growth and improve soil micro-life symbiosis in a vital ecosystem. The city gets methods that ensure an efficient establishment and care of urban greenery that can be a model for other cities. Experiments with different composting methods have reduced work effort, climate effects and improved microbial diversity and quality. The goal is to develop methods that can be used at all of the country´s waste facilities.
Approach and implementation
Tests in the city, park and nursery on various plants focus on revitalizing those with poor growth and infection. An example is a treatment on boxwood that regained greenery and growth in one growing season. Solutions for circular systems have focused on flows of organic matter in the city and optimal treatment so it can be returned to the urban green areas. The experiments are done with research support and with scientific methods to get evidence of how micro-life and ingredients in processes and treatments affect the ecosystem with plant and soil.