This was an uplifting article, John. It has distressed me that Ireland seems so tree-less. In Austin, TX, we have a group called the Tree Folks. They have some land with a native tree nursery, and have events every 3-4 months where they announce what trees they will be giving away, and each family can have 1-2 apiece. It is volunteer-run. Bart secured a couple for me to plant in my yard, formerly a cow pasture. (I also bought 8 more from a nursery and local plant sales, and all but 1 made it through the drought last summer.) Bart gets trees from this group often and asks around his friends who would like for him to plant a tree in their yard. He wound up planting 6 in one couple's barren yard.
Lots of wonderful trees goings on in Texas. Woodland did seem quite alien in Ireland until about 2018. When we hosted ‘Bards In The Woods’ from 2012 until 2018, it was almost all Eastern Europe immigrants that joined in. Since 2018 its been amazing to see the very fast surge in native trees and woodlands interests around Ireland.
What I did not link to this year are the various charities here giving away bare root plants for people to plant. Each year, recently, there has been new outlets of free tree plants due to many people setting up local native tree nurseries.
Thank you for these links, John. I have been wondering what is happening in Ireland and Scotland in regard to native reforestation, and these are really helpful resources.
Thank you Clarice. Just a few of what is going on as I have had contact and some involvement with these. There are a lot more wonderful projects, and many small but very useful. The ‘Neighbourwoods’ around Ireland are one of them. Also various small woodland projects ran like community gardens. Woodland League’s ‘Forest In A Box’ scheme is also wonderful, but I did not get space to include them all this time around.
Kerry seems to be very enthusiastic about getting exsiting native woodlands restored and encouraging new woodlands to form or old woodlands to regenerate again. From the links I listed I think only Hometree have a project or two there now. But Kerry GAA seem very active. There is a project called ‘Treesy Peesie’ that aim to distribute a million tree plants a year and get them planted. I think Kerry GAA get a lot of those planted by the Kerry GAA club members, especially the youngsters. I think ‘ReforestNation’ is based in Kerry who operate a bit like Hometree. ‘Meithal ngCrann; have around 50 small Native woodlands they are looking after and expanding around West Kerry. ALDI got a lot of native trees planted along the Kerry Way, so I do not know if that is expanding, but I find corporate projects are a bit messy and tend to be more towards plantation farming with native trees, but hope I am wrong with this one. A call into the wonderful Future Forests nursery at Kilkeal, not far from Bantry would give much better information than I could serve here.
This was an uplifting article, John. It has distressed me that Ireland seems so tree-less. In Austin, TX, we have a group called the Tree Folks. They have some land with a native tree nursery, and have events every 3-4 months where they announce what trees they will be giving away, and each family can have 1-2 apiece. It is volunteer-run. Bart secured a couple for me to plant in my yard, formerly a cow pasture. (I also bought 8 more from a nursery and local plant sales, and all but 1 made it through the drought last summer.) Bart gets trees from this group often and asks around his friends who would like for him to plant a tree in their yard. He wound up planting 6 in one couple's barren yard.
Lots of wonderful trees goings on in Texas. Woodland did seem quite alien in Ireland until about 2018. When we hosted ‘Bards In The Woods’ from 2012 until 2018, it was almost all Eastern Europe immigrants that joined in. Since 2018 its been amazing to see the very fast surge in native trees and woodlands interests around Ireland.
What I did not link to this year are the various charities here giving away bare root plants for people to plant. Each year, recently, there has been new outlets of free tree plants due to many people setting up local native tree nurseries.
Woo hoo! Go, Ireland!
Thank you for these links, John. I have been wondering what is happening in Ireland and Scotland in regard to native reforestation, and these are really helpful resources.
Thank you Clarice. Just a few of what is going on as I have had contact and some involvement with these. There are a lot more wonderful projects, and many small but very useful. The ‘Neighbourwoods’ around Ireland are one of them. Also various small woodland projects ran like community gardens. Woodland League’s ‘Forest In A Box’ scheme is also wonderful, but I did not get space to include them all this time around.
Do you know if anything is happening in County Kerry? (This is where we live.)
Kerry seems to be very enthusiastic about getting exsiting native woodlands restored and encouraging new woodlands to form or old woodlands to regenerate again. From the links I listed I think only Hometree have a project or two there now. But Kerry GAA seem very active. There is a project called ‘Treesy Peesie’ that aim to distribute a million tree plants a year and get them planted. I think Kerry GAA get a lot of those planted by the Kerry GAA club members, especially the youngsters. I think ‘ReforestNation’ is based in Kerry who operate a bit like Hometree. ‘Meithal ngCrann; have around 50 small Native woodlands they are looking after and expanding around West Kerry. ALDI got a lot of native trees planted along the Kerry Way, so I do not know if that is expanding, but I find corporate projects are a bit messy and tend to be more towards plantation farming with native trees, but hope I am wrong with this one. A call into the wonderful Future Forests nursery at Kilkeal, not far from Bantry would give much better information than I could serve here.
Thank ypu so much for the information. I will follow up on it.