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Aerial view of the Lubāns wetlands at sunset
Sustainability

Grassland management that creates real value.

Managing biologically valuable meadows creates ecological and practical value at once. Grassland conservation and useful products come from the same work.

Circular by design

Circular value from Latvian grasslands.

Biomass collected through landscape management becomes pellet products. After use, it can return to the soil through composting or soil improvement. Biodiversity, farming, and resource use connect in one cycle.

Our pellet products are developed within the EU LIFE UpcyclingGrass project, in cooperation with Latvijas Dabas Fonds and BioEffect.

Grazing cattle keeping a meadow open
Meadow management

Why these meadows need us, and we need them.

Biologically valuable meadows need mowing or grazing to prevent overgrowth and keep habitats open for the species that depend on them. Turning that biomass into useful products gives us a reason to keep managing them, season after season.

Local production

Production that comes to the biomass.

Our production model is mobile. A pellet unit, housed in a sea container and moved by truck, operates within roughly a 50-100 km radius. It processes grassland biomass close to where it's collected, cutting unnecessary transport.

50-100 kmLocal mobile production
The mobile pellet line inside its sea container
The loop

One connected cycle.

01

Manage

Grazing and mowing keep meadows open and biodiverse.

02

Transform

Biomass becomes bedding, fertiliser and substrate pellets.

03

Use

Products serve farms, stables, growers and nurseries.

04

Return

After use, material composts back into healthier soil.

LIFE & EU projects

The EU projects we are part of.

Our meadows, herds and pellets are part of a series of EU LIFE projects restoring Latvia's biologically valuable grasslands and putting their biomass to work.

EU project

GrassLIFE

2017-2023

Role

Partner farm

Project code

LIFE16 NAT/LV/000262

Achievements

  • Sita Nature Park was one of 12 partner farms restoring 1,320.5 hectares of EU priority grasslands across 14 Natura 2000 sites
  • Long-term sustainable grazing management was established, supported by a mobile grazing unit
  • Sita Nature Park's cattle herd grew to over 120 head over four years as part of the project's grazing programme
EU project

GrassLIFE2

2023-2028

Role

Partner farm

Project code

LIFE21-NAT-LV-GrassLIFE2/101073829

Achievements

  • Continuing restoration work as part of a target to restore 1,260 hectares across 11 Natura 2000 sites
  • Sita Nature Park listed as a named project partner alongside other organisations, including the University of Latvia and University of Tartu
EU project

LIFE UpcyclingGrass

[ Years - to confirm ]

Role

Biomass and pellet producer

Project code

101114335-LIFE22-CCM-LV-LIFE

Achievements

  • Sita Nature Park supplies the grass biomass pellets that serve as the pilot raw material for the project
  • Pellets treated with microorganisms become feedstock for new climate- and nature-friendly agricultural and forestry products
  • Previously low-value hay from protected floodplain meadows converted into a valuable circular-economy resource
EU project

LIFE MarshMeadows

2021-2027

Role

Partner farm

Project code

LIFE20 NAT/LV/000273

Achievements

  • Sita Nature Park's land forms part of the Lubāna wetland complex, one of two major wetland complexes the project restores across Latvia and Lithuania
  • Restoration combines grazing with long-term management, using cattle, horses, or deer depending on the site
  • Landowners commit to continued grazing after the project ends, under the project's After-LIFE plan

Let's give grassland biomass a useful life.

We'd be glad to talk.

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