I’ve been regerativ farming for years and enjoy it. Great to see your plan working. For a change in Ireland. And I agree that the farmers accept accept the inevitable. What’s money available in the market 57:03
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This is the way to go Natural farming Have your own food Retail as much as possible Most Irish farmers have NO food at home and have never had any meal from their own fields. Well done all at Drumanilra.
Really brilliant interview with Blathnaid; she delivers the greatest ever promotion of Irish wool I have ever heard. Best of luck to Blathnaid, going forward.
Fantastic talk - great to hear from Blatnaid 😊 . Agree absolutely that we need clear origin info on so called Irish wool products ( we are having the wool pulled over our eyes - excuse the pun!!). Also have the same feeling about “big farmer/machine” syndrome! Looking forward to buying real Irish wool in the future 😊
Very useful info from.a farmer . To hear that the anthelmic is still being excreted 56 days after treatment day is astounding. Then you have to ask what is happening to the soil habitat and ground water due to it's inevitable presence. That the beetles and worms by pass dung containing the medication is a huge bell being tolled for us all including consumers.
Guess you'd need to research it, though I've heard quite a bit about them recently, used in other parts of the world. Even on small farms here in Ireland, it would negate the need for fencing.
Doing great work getting vids like this out there, there's a bright future ahead for farming in Ireland. Anyone interest in alternatives to conventional agriculture should search for 'Chris trump knf' and 'Geoff Lawton permaculture'. Two of the best resources out there in my opinion.
About 30 years ago I planted birch and a few other trees on a third of an acre in Wexford, in the context of an acre urban garden that had quite a few other trees. The area that I planted went from basically field to forest fairly rapidly, and last time I was there, I found self-seeded ferns, orchids of some sort (of the more plain variety), mosses, and some fungi. Also self-sown oaks and rowan. The rest of the garden had gone to jungle (bramble thickets and whatnot), and it took a load of hacking things back to open some air back in around the house. While this isnt exactly what you are doing, the principle is the same. Give things a chance, and they will form an ecosystem. I'm not a purist - I have a drift of snowdrops in the forest, split and resplit by me, and wild daffodils, And I scatter things like foxglove and mullein seed. I'm not hoping to rebuild exactly what was there after the last ice age, but to provide habitat for birds, hedgehogs, foxes etc. I put in some nestboxes, some water sources, some berry plants, climbers in the hedge, and when I see new species I want arriving, I make sure they arent overgrown by e.g. nettles or dock.
For me, this is what urban gardeners can do best. Provide bird and butterfly, hoverfly, ladybug, bees (all sorts) etc. habitat. At the same time, it IS a garden, so you want it to look pleasant - like an ideal woodland with sunny glades. Plant things like cowslips, snakeshead fritillary, anemones, bluebells, solomon's seal, ferns.. and let them sink or swim. Let the grass grow long in spring before you cut it, to let things flower.Instead of a lawn, let it turn to meadow, but mow paths through it so you can walk through it. If you plant trees, keep stripping the lower limbs off to about head height, to let light and air through, and to have the trunk straight. It's not rewilding, as such, but it does radically help to maintain local biodiversity. You want a sort of woodland-edge effect. (high biodiversity area). Leave piles of stuff where insects can overwinter. bees like to overwinter in hollow stems, and you can put flowerpots in the soil with the hole pointing up for solitary bumblebees. Make sure that there is lots of leaf litter and suchlike on the surface for worms to dig in. This will also allow fungi to thrive. Dont dig the soil (except in veggie garden areas, and even then you can avoid it). Dont worry about pests, because your biodiversity will take care of it. In an acre garden, you can have about 30 large trees, with a meadow or two, and several broad boreens going through it, opening up vistas. Light and shade. Dappled sunlight, birdsong.
And you can also plant gooseberries, raspberries, red and white currants, strawberries, cherries - let them go wild and let the birds and animals have their share. Even apples, pears. There is no reason you cant have free food from the garden also - try runner beans sprawling over a hedge. But just keep lots of wild places. Fern groundcovers. Ivy, holly, mistletoe, branchpiles. leaves mixed in. plenty of nesting and resting spots. All possible in a decent sized urban garden. And let it do the unexpected.
@farmingfornature is there any chance to get the contact from eoghan? I am a student from Germany, studying nature conservation and landscape management and I would love to volunteer at his place to learn more about his high nature value farm and rewilding project. 😊
