Two weeks left to submit entries for the Love Your Wellies Competition: farmpeat.ie/love-your-well…

We have cash prizes for the winning students and their school!

Do you know any school students or teachers? Please send them this post and invite them to take part.

Have you signed and shared our open letter yet? We need your help to reach more people!

As hedgerows enter their growing season, learn the symptoms of Fireblight disease and take action to prevent its spread.

Click here: hedgerows.ie/fireblight/

The Rotary Student Environment Award is an all-Ireland project to promote research in #climatechange mitigation.
Open to third level students with a prize up to €4,000 Closing date: 3rd July 2024
Link: wood.ie/wp-content/upl…
#woodawards

10 minutes of meditative hedge laying chat

Thank you CPRE The countryside charity

youtube.com/watch?v=Cp_X7S…

A wonderful thread! ⬇️

Our key takeaway is that hedgerows should be managed on a cycle to create a diversity of habitats for wildlife.

CATCH UP: John Morley talks to Katie Smirnova of Hedgerows Ireland Ireland about their letter to the Minister calling for action to stop the spread of Fireblight.

#OursToProtect #FireBlight

galwaybayfm.ie/listen_back/ou…

As hedgerows spring to life, they become dense corridors protecting nesting birds & fledglings. Laid hedgerows are particularly effective shelters.

Please don’t go near bird nests to avoid disturbing & causing stress (photo 1 is an old nest)!

Learn more: birdwatchireland.ie/from-early-bir…

(AL) Nesting season is certainly in full swing!

In our recent article, dive into the fascinating world of nesting birds and find out what we know about early and late nesting behaviour.

birdwatchireland.ie/from-early-bir…

Looks fantastic! No reason, why all of our hedgerows can't look like this! 🥰😊 Hedgerows Ireland Pippa Hackett Irish Farmers' Association

☀️Save the date⏬️
FINAL WORKSHOP
🗓️May 23rd
🗺️Wexford

Register interest here (before end of March)

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Hedgerows Ireland has shared an #openletter and urgently needs signatures to help fight the spread of fireblight in #ireland .

Follow the link to learn more, read the open letter, and learn what you can do to stop fireblight in Ireland: buff.ly/3TOVBRF

#irishfarmers #hedges

Picked up this article in the Farmer's Journal! This is really worrying! We need to stop importing whitethorn saplings from abroad! 😱😢 Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue Hedgerows Ireland George Lee

Breaking 🚨Member States betray deal on Nature Restoration Law following Hungary's U-turn

Victor Orban, Putins right hand man in the EU, has managed to scupper the signing off the NRL into law at the final hurdle.

This is a betrayl of citizens wishes & our shared future

For those interested, here are pictures taken in early January as I laid a hedge on the farm of Liam Barton Liam Barton in Laois and here is the hedge well out in leaf this morning Hedgerows Ireland

A new book by Seán Ó Gaoithín is launched today titled “Coillte Dúchasacha Chontae Dhún na nGall” or “Native Woodlands of County Donegal”.
➡️ woodlandsofireland.com/native-woodlan…

#nativewoodlands #donegal #woodlandsofireland

Calling landowners, community groups and schools in counties #Galway , #Mayo , #Leitrim and #Meath ! Here is a golden opportunity to act for nature on your pocket of land. The #HaresCorner project is now accepting applications. Last date 31 March. Visit burrenbeo.com/thc now!

Last bit of hedgelaying of Spring '24 is out in bud Hedgerows Ireland

On Saturday our volunteers partnered with Delgany Tidy Towns and the residents of Thorndale estate to plant 250 native trees to create a new hedgerow

This hedgerow will be an oasis of life for the estate in just a few years, full of birds, bees, butterflies and other fauna 💚