What a great thread summarising our knowledge of the impacts of our drained, agricultural grasslands on peat. Thank you David David Wilson 🇺🇦 Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Irish Rural Link Irish Peat Society Community Wetlands Forum Wetland Surveys Ireland

The in tonight to Mooney Goes Wild Mooney Goes Wild on RTE Radio 1 at 10pm. I'll be chatting with Éanna Ní Lamhna about my new book #Portal by Currach Books out on Clara bog! Community Wetlands Forum National Library of Ireland Peatlands Gathering Catherine (Farrell) Wilkie PeatlandConnections The Eco Eye Team FarmPEAT Project Shane Martin

Many thanks to our dedicated Steering Group who gave their time, expertise and contributions to last week's inperson meeting. Great to show members what's happening on the ground and enjoy a good discussion. Thanks to farmers Seamus Fallon and John Griffin for hosting us

Our 2022 farmer training days took place last week. They are valuable to both the farmers and the project team giving all a great opportunity to exchange knowledge on peat management. A big thank you to our host farmers Seamus Fallon, John Colgan, John Lawlor and Wayne Burrell.

In case you missed it you can listen back here to
FarmPEAT Project speaking with Paula Wiseman of Europe in My Backyard
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Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Wetland Surveys Ireland Irish Rural Link Community Wetlands Forum Connecting Communities with Peatlands Result Based Payments Network Pippa Hackett Malcolm Noonan T.D.

Interesting discussions with Hugh Cushnan RPS at sites where FarmPEAT Project are working with landowners to develop an agreed action plan for slowing the flow of water in agricultural drains on peat soils. Thanks to Jim Ryan and Donal Daly for great input!

Great turnout out for our bog walk and talk for National Heritage Week. Thanks to those who could make it and great to meet other peatland and wildlife groups FarmPEAT Project BirdWatch Ireland

FarmPEAT were thrilled to attend the very informative Shanakyle Bog Walk and Talk today. A fantastic example of peatland restoration in action! Thanks to Barry and all involved for a great afternoon on the bog.
#HeritageWeek2022

The FarmPEAT Team have been busy over the last few months and to give everyone a taster of what has been going on, we would like to share with you our second newsletter – The Bog Standard Issue 2.
Click the link here to view the newsletter!
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Check out FarmPEAT's new podcast episode with Matthijs Schouten.
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Professor Matthijs Schouten is a renowned Dutch ecologist and nature conservation expert who speaks with FarmPEAT's Caroline Lalor.

FarmPEAT Project was delighted to be involved in filming for ARTE TV ARTE in English, a European Culture TV Channel for their current series on Ireland. One of FarmPEAT’s participant farmers in Clara, Mr. Joe Gaffey, was filmed on his farm talking about his involvement with us.

As we get stuck into our second year in the FarmPEAT Project, we would like to welcome our new farmers. We now have an additional 14 farmers across all of our sites, bringing us to a total of 50 farmers. Welcome to the FarmPEAT Project!

One of @farmpeat Participant Farmers, Mr. Daniel Curley, taking water level measurements at his farm in Co. Roscommon. This level of farmer engagement is really encouraging and we hope Daniel enjoys learning more about water levels on his peat plots over the coming months

Great to see the start of the Co-Operation Projects being set up as part of the new ACRES programme. Wonderful opportunities here to work with an experienced team for those interested in agri-environmental issues. See details in link below. Result Based Payments Network Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Thank you to our Steering Group for another thought-provoking meeting last week with plenty of discussion and contributions – a great start to Year 2 – this was our first SG meeting in Year 2 of the FarmPEAT Project!

We are pleased to announce that the results-based payments have been made to our Year 1 farmers. These payments will act as reward for services such as carbon sequestration, water retention and filtration, biodiversity, pollination and much more!

As we get stuck into our second year in the FarmPEAT Project, we would like to welcome our new farmers. We now have an additional 14 farmers across all of our sites, bringing us to a total of 50 farmers. Welcome to the FarmPEAT Project!

Lovely to be out in the sunshine in the midlands with FarmPEAT participant farmers and agricultural advisors last week. FarmPEAT Project delivered a training workshop on our scorecards focusing mainly on wet grasslands on peat, peatlands and field boundaries.

Thanks to Bord na Móna for showing us around their recently rewetted site at Umeras, Co. Kildare. Umeras Bog is part of the Bord na Móna PCAS, and is also a project site in the FarmPEAT Project. We were shown work completed and discussed options for the future.