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SHARING OPTIONS: Three generations of McCann lettuce growers from Rush, Co Dublin: Alan, Maurice and Mark McCann. \ Fennell Photography The farm: “I am salad leaf grower based in Rush, north Co Dublin. I supply Ireland’s leading supermarket chains with produce through our company, Morning Fresh Farm. All leaf packing takes place on the 11ha site. Six million heads of butterhead lettuce, pak choi and baby gem lettuce are grown each year on our farm.” Family: “My father Maurice was a vegetable grower before I founded the company in 1994. He grew mainly tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, being the first pepper producer in the country. My son Alan studied horticulture and has been with us here on the farm for a year now.” ....
Agamemnon Otero, the founder of Energy Garden, tending to a bee hive in a section of the garden on the platform at Brondesbury Park Overground train station in London. ‘Energy Garden is really about building resilience in communities. It’s about how we directly address the climate change issue that everybody feels they are powerless to do,’ he says. AFP A busy commuter train station is an unlikely place to find a haven for flowers, bees and hedgehogs. But a decade-old project in London bringing an eco-friendly combination of gardening, horticulture and so-called rewilding to the urban jungle is bearing fruit during the pandemic. ....
The key to doubling farmers’ income This is possible if site-specific models are designed and agencies work in unison The Prime Minister, on February 28, 2016, exhorted the nation to double farmers’ income by 2022. A three-pronged principle is at the heart of achieving this goal. Farmers’ income increases when yields rise, cost of production falls and when they receive remunerative prices. Through a three-year action research project in five aspirational districts, it was found that farmers’ income goes up when site specific farm models are evolved and executed through participatory methods. On an average, each project encompassed nine villages and 1,400 volunteer households. The originally envisaged project cost was about ₹35 crore, financed through convergence grants from existing programmes (₹19 crore, 55 per cent), beneficiary contributions (₹5 crore, 14 per cent) and bank loans (₹11 crore, 31 per cent). ....
Young ash trees on Liam Beechner s farm in Clonakilty. Speaking at the National Organic Training Skillnet’s agroforestry conference recently, Eugene Curran from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) gave an overview of Ireland’s agri-forestry scheme, which was launched in 2015 and has now been adopted by over 60 Irish farms on a range of soil types and farming systems. The key difference between agroforestry and regular afforestation is that landowners are allowed to graze animals and harvest fodder under this option. The premium lasts just five years compared to 15 for regular forestry schemes. Like all afforestation options, putting land into agroforestry has no impact on single farm payments. ....