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….
Category: Rewilding
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,…
Do’s and don’ts of ponds – youtube
Healthy Habitats to address climate breakdown
Published by Feasta on February 23rd, 2022 (https://www.feasta.org/2022/02/23/healthy-habitats/) & updated February 2023. Underlying the discussions about carbon levels and energy efficiency is another, arguably much more important issue that tends to take second place in both policy and activism. The issue is that of healthy habitats. It is healthy soil that provides the ability to grow…
The call of the wild
Féidhlim Harty tracks the principle of succession in a wild garden. First published on Nov 22, 2021 in Horticulture Connected (link below). We bought our house in 2008, just as the housing bubble was at its most inflated. I’d never really wanted to move, but it had been on the cards and now it was…
Pond design and construction for The Hare’s Corner – youtube
Posted by Burrenbeo Trust on 18 Nov 2021 for the participants on the Hare’s Corner project (https://burrenbeo.com/thc/).
River Corridors Connecting Nature
First published in Horticulture Connected on May 19, 2021. Link below. Féidhlim Harty explores the boundless potential of and benefits from creating river corridors throughout our countryside Perfect Storm Globally we are in a perfect storm; and I’m not referring to the Covid pandemic. On many different levels, Earth’s health indices are at critical levels….
A beginner’s guide to Rewilding
Published in Horticulture Connected on August 13, 2020 (link below). Féidhlim Harty describes how ‘rewilding’ can produce landscapes with an abundance of plant and wildlife with opportunities for people to thrive socially and economically We are beginning to recognise that if we don’t manage our landscapes in a way that supports the natural world we…
Corona time and ecological recovery
Writing during the lockdown, Féidhlim Harty asks, has the pandemic been all bad for the planet or society? First published in Horticulture Connected on August 1, 2020 (link below). Last year, both British and Irish governments declared a climate and biodiversity emergency in response to public pressure and a growing international scientific consensus. Yet despite…