Posted by Jan on January 16th, 2010

For the last four weeks we have experienced amazing weather for Irish standards. Everything frozen and white.  The trees looked so beautiful.  It brought many hardships with it, and many of us had to change the way we usually did things. For us on the farm, filling water for the cattle (and for neighbour’s cattle) [...]

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Posted by Jan on May 15th, 2009

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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Posted by Jan on February 16th, 2009

 Every day as I go about my daily activities I find myself  trying to think of more ways to communicate to people involved in forests & timber industries in Ireland about this other way of approaching forest management.  
I am certain that if forest owners here knew there was another approach to forestry than the [...]

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