Maintaining and experiencing the pasture landscape in the Upper Main Area and Jura mountains - Ebensfeld

The Landscape Conservation Association Lichtenfels takes care of many grazing projects in the Upper Main area and in the Jura mountains. The grazing projects serve to preserve the Franconian cultural landscape, which was shaped by the local sheep farms. Extensive grazing areas, particularly on dry sites, are among the most valuable biotopes, with habitats for many highly endangered species of animals and plants. You will be helping to preserve and restore these habitats. Inside a grazing enclosure you will be building a wood-store for goats. In Schneybachaue you will be putting in fence posts and wire around a new cattle pasture. You will also be working on two other goat pastures to prepare them for the upcoming pasture season: at the Niesten castle ruin, you will dismantle the broken fence and build a new one with wood and wire mesh. Also, in the idyllic Kleinziegenfelder valley you will cutting away plants from an electric fence with a sickle and a pruner, as well as checking the different strands of the fence and repairing them where required.