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Int-planting campaign and tours on the composting system of the EAD on March 29, 2025
The own company for municipal tasks and services of the science city of Darmstadt (EAD) invites you to the day of the open house on the composting plant at Eckhardwiesenstraße 25 for Saturday, March 29, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event focuses on tours through the new carbonization system and the popular planting campaign with regional "Darmstadt Earth".
Guided tours for the carbonization system and practical tips for composting
Visitors can learn more about the production of plant cubes in guided tours. Employees of the EAD explain on site how green cuts from the urban area are charred and what advantages plants offer for the garden, the environment and climate. In addition, you answer questions about organic waste, composting and the use of garden and plant earth.
Int-planting action: plant balcony boxes with intestinal city earth
A highlight of the day is the planting campaign, in which visitors can have their buckets and balcony boxes brought with them at affordable prices. The Aumühle nursery from Wixhausen provides a selection of seasonal plants. Planting is planted in "Darmstadt Earth", a mixture of 80 percent garden soil and 20 percent plant cubes, which is suitable for different soil types and the floor climate improves.
Hands-on offers for children and seed exchange
There is a creative hands-on campaign for children: you can paint your own cress with Darmstadt earth in old egg cartons and paint plants and to match Easter. In addition, a seed box is offered on site for the exchange of different types of plant - a contribution to the promotion of biodiversity.
Pflants as a contribution to climate protection
City treasurer André Schellenberg emphasizes the ecological importance of the carbonization system: "The structure of the plant cubes enables water and nutrients to store and bind pollutants. In this way, plant cubes increases the resilience of plants compared to climate change and sustainably relieves the atmosphere by many tons of CO₂ a year."
Pflants are used in a variety of ways - in horticulture, agriculture, cattle farming, as a litter, cat litter or filter material.
Lecture at Biogartenmesse
Further information offers the lecture "Darmstädter Pflanzenkohle - our joint contribution to climate protection" by Klaus Maier, head of the waste management department at the EAD. This will take place on March 29 and 30 at 3 p.m. at the Biogartenmesse in the Kranichstein hunting lodge.
