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- We are proud business supporters of the All Ireland Pollinator Plan. We have followed their guidelines to adopt a range of strategies to support pollinators.
- Hedgerows – we maintain the existing fuschia, hawthorn and honeysuckle hedgerows on the site.
- We have introduced bird nesting boxes and bat boxes around the site.
- We leave a number of exposed south facing banks for solitary bees and have drilled extra holes in south facing tree stumps and logs.
- We have bug hotels around the vegetable garden.
- We rotate our vegetable beds and leave plants to go to seed.
- We choose pollinator friendly plants and use companion planting in the vegetable garden rather than any chemical control.
- There are many untouched/rewilded areas around the site
- Low mow – we mow paths and areas late and infrequently and have areas of grassland that remain untouched
- We do not use chemicals for weed control on paths and driveways – for this we use a flame gun and manual weed control
- We have six composting bins plus a wormery and produce our own compost for our vegetable garden.
