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I will be pulling on wellies to visit forests on farms in west Cork later this month. I’m hoping to get a glimpse of the future look and feel for, held over two days in Bantry starting on November 16th. There is solid evidence from Europe’s oldest agroforestry study showing its potential for productive farming.
I bought the cheapest land I could find in Ireland. Now I’m planting a forest bigger than St Stephen’s Green Day two will be the field trips to three farms around Skibbereen. On Rossa Gibbons’s farm, he is building a pedigree Shropshire sheep flock on an agroforestry plot, which also incorporates fruit and nut trees. Alan Kingston will walk us through his horticulture, agroforestry and aronia berry farm where he is also rearing Shropshire sheep and a small herd of Kune Kune pigs which fertilise the forest floor, and clear briars without harming the trees, thanks to their shorter snouts.
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