SUMMER IN THE ALTMARK

When the poppies and cornflowers are in bloom, it’s summer in the Altmark. This year you can see more fields of poppies and cornflowers again. And there seem to be more insects this year too, which you notice on your windscreen, among other things. We also have more swallows and more nests again. That hasn’t happened in the last 2 years, and we are really happy about it. More and more farmers are leaving flowering strips or even whole fields, and – thanks to the public debate on the subject – are using less pesticide, or using it more selectively. You can see the effect straight away in the number of insects and, as a result, in the number of swallows here.