At the University of Greifswald there are currently four projects studying the cultivation of peat moss. The goal is to enable a fast revitalization of the raised bog areas and create the economically important peat in some other way:
"When using the white peat as a growing medium sensitive eco-systems are drained, destroyed and in a just a few years the bogs that took thousands of years to grow are destroyed. The carbon that has been caught in the bog is released back into the atmosphere as CO2. With the peat’s disappearance an archive of agricultural human history disappears as well."
The projects include planting peat moss on already cut areas or not yet renatured areas or on dry pasture land as well as the industrial possibility of an artificial peat moss farm.
