Article by Emma Hart for the Farmers Journal on farm-scale water measures: https://www.farmersjournal.ie/farm-programmes/footprint-farmers/wading-into-wetland-solutions-on-footprint-farms-784838
Author: Feidhlim Harty
Proxies in Rewilding – Win-Win Land Management
First published on December 12, 2024 in Horticulture Connected. Link below. In a changing world that urgently needs both local food and space for nature, Féidhlim Harty finds ways to combine these needs by using proxies in small-scale rewilding initiatives. Rewilding is a term that excites as much reticence as enthusiasm, depending on your perspective….
It’ll take a miracle… and we can do that
Our waterways are in crisis. Only about 1% of Ireland’s rivers and streams are pristine; down from nearly 15% in the 1980s. Despite a legal obligation to achieve “good” status for our waterways by 2027, we’ve hovered around only 55% of waterways at this status since 1987. The targets aren’t just to keep within EU…
Five things you can do for your water – and your world
Following on from the first post in our water miracle series (It’ll take a miracle… and we can do that) – how do we go from the knowledge of the solutions needed to achieving practical change? Here are five things we can do in any given scenario listed above to help move the country towards…
Five things you can do for the evironment
This is the text of a talk which was given to the Eco-Quaker group in summer 2020. Re-imagining Society Sustainably Imagining a future as clear,clean and beautiful as can be,with wholesome human interactions,enjoyment of natureand our needs met from the abundant earth. As we look at the state of the world around us and the…
“Nurturing the Miracle”
Video from Feidhlim’s talk at the recent Skerries Eco Night – Turning the Tide Together – what can we do; Sept 28th 2024. Slides to this event are below:
What is the Most Eco-friendly Sanitation System?
So let’s assume that we want clean water leaving our home or business. That’s pretty much a given.Within that context we need a sewage or sanitation system that works well, but we also want to gofurther. The two main steps beyond conventional sewage options are zero energy inputs andadditional benefits for the environment in terms…
Exploring Solutions in Knocklyon: for the Dodder River Catchment
Here’s a copy of a presentation given recently in Knocklyon, Dublin with the report underneath:
Being the Beaver
Féidhlim Harty explores the potential for (re)introductions of beavers into the Irish landscape – and offers some workarounds for doing their work while we wait. Published in Horticulture Connected on June 6, 2024 (link below). Without wanting to overstate the obvious: beavers are amazing landscape engineers. For those new to the subject, these small, vegetarian,…
Willows are a Win-Win
First published in Horticulture Connected on August 24, 2023 Mopping up sewage pollution, sequestering carbon and promoting biodiversity – willow wastewater systems are the solution we need for one-off houses in the countryside. WORDS: Féidhlim Harty. We seem to be on a whole suite of collision courses, including housing, climate, biodiversity and water pollution. Many…