jalex on February 21st, 2010

Word just in from Martino Newcombe and Tom Nixon of Trojan Horses that we can see them and their magnificent horses at work this coming Tuesday night at 8.30pm, RTE 1, on Ear to the Ground.  Do some home work by checking out their blog site in advance of the programme and you’ll begin to [...]

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jalex on May 29th, 2009

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 – [...]

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admin on January 31st, 2009

The second section of forest at Inishconnell was marked for its first thinning in a similar way as was the first section. But the second section was more typical and more straight forward. It is just a pure stand of sitka spruce. There were two lines of poplar in it, but no other broadleaves apart [...]

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