“Farming, Food and Nature”
Tuesday 8th August
10.30 - 11.10am ACRES Donegal co operation
11.10 – 11.30am Acres scheme - "Restoring soil" the importance of soil biology - Kevin & Claire Moore (KPM soils)
11.30 - 11.50am Living Green "Compost Making" (Neil Crossan)
11.50 – 12.10pm Steps to increase biodiversity in your forest, Teagasc and Forestry (Paul Butler)
12.10 - 12.30pm Inish Forestry (Ross Buchanan) Farm woodland - "grants, low impact harvesting and nature based solutions"
12.30 - 12.50pm Inishowen Rivers Trust (Trish Murphy) "Our local Rivers"
12.50 - 1.10pm Local Authorities Water Programme (Jimmy McVeigh) "Water quality protection and restoration"
2.30 - 3.30pm Community Gardens / Nutrition / Edible Seaweed / Local Food - imporving gut health through local foods
Katherine Kelly (Renua nutrition)/William McElhinney(juices wheatgrass -tumeric)/Patsy Toland Clonmany community garden
Neil Crossan - Community Gardens
Tom Evans Inishowen beekeepers - show me the colour of your honey
Tuesday and Wednesday on display "Nature project by the pupils of Cloontagh Primary School, Clonmany. "The nature of Cloontagh"
Wedneday 9th
10.30 - 11.10am ACRES Donegal co operation
11.10 -11.40 am Water table management of farmland - Francis Fortune "Green Restoration Ireland Co-op"
11.40 – 12.00noon Corncrake Life Project (Jone Ugarteburu) Working with farmers to conserve the corncrake in Donegal.
12.00 - 12.20pm Management of Inishowens uplands - John Doherty, Inishowens uplands EIP
12.20 – 12.40pm Farming for Nature (Boyd Bryce)
12.40 - 1pm Overview of Biodiversity at national level - Aengus Kennedy "Nature NorthWest"
2.30 - 3.30pm Wellbeing from Nature / Local and Global actions
Panel discussion faciliated by Inishowen Development parttnership chaired by Patsy Toland (Changemakers)
Food Waste - healthy food - sustainability - Niamh Britton SlainteCare
"Local farming working with nature - Joe Sweeney "IDP Chair IFA"
Sustainability Passports - Seeds of Change - Kate O'Callaghan "Changemakers"
Social Organic and sustainable farming - Bernard DeCuester (Muineagh organic farming)
2.30- 3.30 pm Stalls mingle and food tasting - samples - recipes from around the world. -Incl. displays DCC bins (from Suzanne Bogan) /fairtrade/sustainability passport/ECO inishowen event, etc...
