Documentation of Cultivation Test Field
for Fast-Growing Fiber and Biomass Plants in Arzl, Tirol
July 2025
While June promised summer, July was a rather rainy season. Additionally, animals seemingly ate more than half of our crops.
June 2025
In general, the summerhouse was left to its own devices. The plants were watered once a week – when it wasn’t raining – but June greeted us with midsummer weather. The hemp was fertilised with home-made nettle slurry and the beautiful Patscher flax started to blossom. At the end of the month, we also plucked the grasses that had taken root between the hemp plants.
May 2025
Farmers in Tirol historically tend to design their yearly duties with a special calendar, the “Bauernkalender”. This is especially important for us, as the Ice Saints (“Eisheilige”) tell, when to plant our flax and hemp the soil. The Ice Saints Days are usually a couple of days of colder weather, and this year, the Ice Saints have been from May 11th to May 15th. Feli started planting the seeds after this cold wave.
April 2025
March 2025