To Celebrate World Wetlands Day, on Wednesday February 5th, The Community Wetlands Forum are hosting students from Gurteen College for a ‘field trip’ to Scohaboy Bog SAC. Jim Ryan (CWF) will lead to explain/discuss carbon and peat soils management, values etc as well as better ‘for nature’ ways to manage farm wetland areas.
This will also tie in with Gurteen/TUS Thurles Farming & Sustainability degree course. For more information on the Community Wetlands Forum ‘Connecting peatlands with Communities’ project See here 320_CCwP_Factsheet_Scohaboy_A4_v2.pdf
For more information on farm management of peat soils here is a link by Catchment Scientist, Donal Daly – Drained Peaty Soils are a Wasting Asset for Farmers. Drained+Peaty+Soils_V1+(1).pdf
