@ArableSam @rayofoghlu Pro Silva will be offering workshops soon for foresters and landowners in FT 10 CCF mix afforestation design
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Manus Crowley
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Manus Crowley
@ManusCrowley
Forester and ecologist based in Southeast Ireland. Practitioner of Continuous Cover Forestry according to Pro Silva close to nature principles.
Kilkenny, Ireland เข้าร่วม Ekim 2010
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@ArableSam @rayofoghlu Much better to plant the hardwoods in groups throughout the conifers
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@rayofoghlu @_JamieMcIntyre That's exactly what the FT 10 mixture is.
A mixture conifer species suited to a site including Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, Western red cedar, Norway spruce, Scots pine and European larch. Trees are planted in groups. Hardwoods mixed through also with groups of oak and others
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@_JamieMcIntyre 100%
I'd prefer a full compliment of diverse site suitable conifers, than a few tokenistic native trees that neither produce a nature, nor timber dividend
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Joking aside, this one is key: too often native (or even alternative) species are included in a completely tokenistic way, reflecting 'regulatory' limits rather than opportunities & constraints on the ground.
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Here is a good example - policymakers' simplistic assumption = native trees are good, so they obligate a minimum percentage of them in schemes. Result = A standard spruce monoculture with a window dressing of native trees to tick the box.
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To those of you too young to remember the Epicurean Food Hall. This is what was stolen from you.
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@hometree__ The grant system also supports planting mixed diverse native woodland and diverse conifer/broadleaf mixtures. When landowners understand the risks involved they are unlikely to plant monocultures. We need to keep educating them but equally farmers need to inform themselves!
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@rayofoghlu Great ccf project to transition into a mixed woodland and eventually a semi natural one.
Depending on the soil types you could have a whole range of different woodlands. And of course removal on peats if considered appropriate
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Great introduction to cave archaeology with some friends old and new at Castlepook Cave for the Irish Cave Bones project. Huge thanks to @NSERC_CRSNG Alliance International for funding @UNB collaboration in this fascinating research.
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@rayofoghlu @Bill_Linnane Did they actually look for Irish oak? Irish distillers used oak from Irish estates across the country to produce oak barrels.
irishdistillers.ie/article/celebr…
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@Bill_Linnane “In Ireland, we don’t have the oak tree stock grown specifically for barrel making and investments in our native and oak tree cultivation would be an opportunity for the long-term (100-year plus) farming future,” she said.
My thoughts exactly
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'The first Irish-made casks in over 60 years in Ireland were recently coopered and made at Dair Nua Cooperage in Foxford, Co. Mayo, marking a milestone in the re-emergence of the ancient craft of coopering to support the growing Irish whiskey industry' agriland.ie/farming-news/m…
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@DawsonKristo @pippopotamus We planted an oak woodland there. Mixed in birch, cherry, cedar, sweet chestnut and others. we included some of those resistant elms through it. It's a beautiful site
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@Cervus1985 No, I'll leave it untreated. So it will weather to a silver grey colour.
I could treat it with Osmo oil and it would hold its colour but its too much work!
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Bit of light housework on the horizon. Irish grown Douglas fir from CCF managed woodlands.
Will be using it for exterior cladding
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@ShaneMcAuliffe1 @rayofoghlu Native woodland FT1 was already eligible on certain peat and organo-mineral soils. The clarification today was agroforestry FT8 using appropriate native species is also eligible on these soils.. its a welcome outcome
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@rayofoghlu Bizarre they’ve just approved agroforestry for peaty soils
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This "plant your wet ground/plant the bog" mentality needs to move on.
Whilst not always the case, these bits of ground are already rich in biodiversity. Right now flag iris is coming through. It will be followed by willow herb, cuckoo flower and ragged robin.
SEEFA@SEEFAssociation
Farmers are identifying wet sections of ground to plant, but peaty soils are ineligible for the Native Tree Area scheme. farmersjournal.ie/news/news/smal… #SEEFA #SaveIrishForestry
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@pippopotamus @DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne Spuds being planted in ground this year. But lot of Well rotted material added
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@ManusCrowley @DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne I found Cara is an ok roaster but doesn't take on colour and falls to pieces if boiled. Stored in the ground well. Didn't produce much but that could be our clay soil, not great for spuds
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@pippopotamus @DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne Lovely soil in kilkenny.. feed it very well. Dung, and home compost
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@DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne @pippopotamus Yea, better steamed than boiled. Good for mash tho! Connect are a great spud. Make excellent chips
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@DawsonKristo @St0neP1ne @pippopotamus Massive harvest last year .. Still eating them.
Will probably go with these..
earlies on polytunnell - Orla, Solist
2nd earlies - British Queens
Main crop - Connect, Cara
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@NatureNymph @JennyMcNally7 @mickkellygrows Needs a few weeks drying on the ground before you store them away
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About 10 of 40 bulbs of garlic I saved from last year now damp and moldy 😣. Kept in warmest, driest room. Bummer. Still, some cloves ok to make kale pesto + kale from @JennyMcNally7. @mickkellygrows best storage thoughts?
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