Hedgerow Photography Competition
We want you to send us a photo which highlights some aspect of our late summer/autumn hedgerows.
We want you to send us a photo which highlights some aspect of our late summer/autumn hedgerows.
Hedgerows Ireland, the Tipperary based group dedicated to all aspects of hedgerows, has been approached by local residents who live near Parkville farm, Clonmel, recently bought by you at auction.
Irish farmland is being bought up by billionaire investors who are able to pay treble the current market value. Farmers who need to expand to remain viable, or new entrant farmers are completely shut out of the bidding when these individuals or syndicates wish to add to their vast land portfolios.
All aspects of hedgerows: hedge laying, hedgecutting demos, Q and A's on farm payment schemes, barn owl talk, bird box making, dyes, honey.
It’s been a very busy year so far for Hedgerows Ireland. This is a summary.
A big thank you to the hundred or more supporters who came to Dail Eireann to protest about the plight of our native hedgerows.
We are asking you to support and come to LEINSTER HOUSE in DUBLIN on WEDNESDAY 15th FEBURARY 12pm midday. We will together deliver a letter to the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue demanding action to save and enhance our hedgerows.
Hedgerows Ireland remains very disappointed by the missed opportunities for rewarding hedgerows in the new CAP schemes.
Hedgerows Ireland is currently exploring the archives of the Department of Agriculture to uncover the origins of the current ineffectual regulations around hedgerow removal.
The Barn Owl is a Red-listed Bird of Conservation Concern in Ireland. Declines in their populations are linked to the intensification of farming practices which have resulted in a reduction in the quality and quantity in foraging habitat.
Alan Moore, Lilian O'Sullivan, Teagasc, Shirley Clerkin, Monaghan Co. Council, Michael Hickey, New Inn.
Alan Moore appears in front of a Dail Committee putting the case forward for Hedgerows.
Hedgerows Ireland have been working hard to get proper payments in the new CAP schemes for good hedgerow management.
Hedgerows Ireland have been working hard to amend the latest CAP schemes to include payment for hedgerow quality.
We have had recent meetings in February 2021 with Ministers of State Malcolm Noonan and Pippa Hackett to discuss key issues of concern.
Irish Rail's unnecessary removal of hedgerow along the Limerick to Waterford railway line.
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