Farming For Nature
Handbook
21.11.24
INISHOWEN farmer, Boyd
Bryce from Inch Island, contributes to a new book on
practical ways to create a more sustainable farming
future.
At a time of great challenge and uncertainty for farm
families, The Farming For Nature Handbook is a practical
guide to protecting and restoring nature. With
contributions from more than fifty Irish farmers, the
book also shares farmers’ experiences of how working
with nature can help reduce costs and improve incomes. |
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Inch Island farmer, Boyd
Bryce releases a ringed grey partridge. |
While there is widespread
awareness of the environmental damage caused by poor
farming practices, this book in contrast attempts to
highlight the positive ways farmers can sustain and
enhance our natural environment, and benefit from the
results.
The book, which will be launched on November 28th, was
inspired by regular requests to the non-profit Farming
For Nature project from landowners, farmers,
smallholders and growers wanting to learn how best to
manage their land, big or small, in a way that enhances
habitats, protects profits, and safeguards our natural
environment and rural communities.
The Farming For Nature project was set up to support,
encourage and inspire farmers who farm, or who wish to
farm, in a way that will improve the natural health of
our countryside.
Boyd Bryce, an arable and sheep farmer from Inch Island,
says in the book: “A neat box hedge that isn’t allowed
to fruit or flower isn’t a functioning hedge, it is just
a pile of sticks.”
The Farming For Nature Handbook, published by Dingle
Publishing, will be launched on November 28th, 2024. RRP
€30. It is available to order at
www.farmingfornature.ie . |
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