Posts tagged EIP
European Recognition and SIMA Innovation Awards

Early this November Hometree Charity received European recognition SIMA Farming award for Environmental Innovation in Paris. This was a huge moment for us! We received this award for our Farm-Forest Project. This project aims to preserve the environment, connect and help farmers introduce tree systems onto their productive farms as part of a European Program funded by the Department of Agriculture.

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AwardsBaiba ŠustereIllaun, EIP
30,000 Native Trees Across 11 Farms

Hometree’s EIP is the Illaun Farm-Forest Alliance, and it will foster an alliance between landowners committed to enhancing on-farm biodiversity throughout the Glendine Valley in County Clare. In this video Matt Smith, general manager and co-founder of Hometree, talks about the benefits these woodlands will offer to the farmlands taking part in the Illaun Farm-Forest Alliance project.

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Illaun Farm-Forest Alliance: Fieldwork Results by Meadhbh Costigan

We had heard of Continuous Cover Forestry, which would allow some Spruce to be removed while leaving the rest in place to provide a protective canopy for new saplings. But introducing a massive disturbance like this to an ecosystem is bound to have both positive and negative effects on biodiversity. So we needed a way to measure these effects over time, in order to ensure our actions are as restorative and healing as possible.

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Illaun Farm-Forest Alliance EIP

Last autumn we got the fantastic news that Hometree has been approved by the Department of Agriculture to receive funding for a year-long European Innovation Partnership (EIP). Hometree’s EIP will be known as the Illuan Farm-Forest Alliance and will foster an alliance between landowners committed to enhancing on-farm biodiversity throughout the Glendine Valley in County Clare.

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Illaun Continuous Cover Forestry Project

Native woodlands are among the most biodiverse ecosystems in the Irish landscape. A new temperate woodland in Europe can take 100 years to reach similar levels of species richness. Plus, up to 80% of a woodland's plant diversity is found in its understory, which doesn't develop in a new temperate woodland as it does in native woodland.

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