While I was down in Kilkenny last week at the Teagasc forestry event, I visited Cathy Fitzgerald and her small woodland near Borris, Co. Carlow. Cathy is an artist and her husband Martin Lyttle is a sculptor. Cathy has recently made a couple of cute little films about forestry :Burning Brightly & First Thinning – [...]
Last week I travelled down to Inistoige, County Kilkenny to attend the National Forestry Demonstration on Broadleaf Management and Thinning. It was run by Teagasc, Coford and the Forest Service jointly. It was an extremely well organized event and there was a lot of interest. There were mini buses to ferry people to and from [...]
Yesterday I met a man who agreed to help me work through a new project I’ve been thinking about, to do with close-to-nature forestry of course. I travelled to Dublin on the train. We met in Juice, that wonderful restaurant on South Great George’s Street, Dublin. I had never met him before. He started by [...]
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While most of the Pro Silva Ireland (PSI) visits are to private forests, the one last Saturday 25th April was to a Coillte owned forest, Curragh Chase Forest Park in Foynes, County Limerick and it was a real quality day. As close-to-nature forest management is new to Ireland, there is no one to teach [...]
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I started reading Jackson’s Track on the flight back to Ireland from Australia last month and I’ve just finished it. The one good thing about long flights is that you get reading time. Not so easy to get when I’m back on the farm and at my desk. Jackson’s Track is a true life tale [...]
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