Recently I cycled down to my local river and I saw that it had been dredged. Someone had cut down the trees that lined it and scraped up the sides. Rivers should be full of life, teeming with fish and aquatic plants. But this one just looked like a muddy ditch. Why does this happen? […]
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Why we need hedgerows
A few days ago, I read an article in the Guardian newspaper on the importance of hedgerows (in England) for the climate, the wildlife and the heritage of the nation. It centred around the findings of Rob Walton when he did a two-year survey of his hedge in 2011. Having been challenged to spend a year documenting […]
Planting Trees with ‘Self Help Africa’
Do you buy Glenisk yogurt? If so, there’s a chance you’ve looked at the notice from Self Help Africa on the back. Self Help Africa have decided that, working with Glenisk yogurt, they are going to plant 100, 000 native trees here in Ireland, and for every tree planted here 10 will planted in Africa- […]
My Special Trees (part 2)
Hello everyone. Hope you are safe and well! Here is part two of My Special Trees. The Sycamore Trees On our little bit of land, we have two sycamore trees. One of them was a favourite tree since the moment I saw it. It was so wonderful to climb. Its branches were strong and flat, […]
HUGE TREE DAMAGE AFTER STORM ELLEN
If you live in Ireland, there is a likelihood you at least noticed the impact of storm Ellen, both on people and wildlife. For us in Galway, the impact was big. We found out when, after a night of howling winds, we rushed to take some ill animals to the vet. The first hundred […]
The Irish Tree Alphabet
We were contacted by an artist called Katie Holten. Katie lives in America, but she grew up in Ireland, and her latest project has been the Irish Tree Alphabet. Katie was inspired by Ireland’s ancient Ogham alphabet to create a new version. Each tree represents a letter in the alphabet. If you go to the […]