Ballykean Estate

Ballykean Estate Organic Farm in Wicklow is committed to rearing top quality organic cattle and pigs, while preserving an estate that dates back to 1640

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@SteveMYorks Built in 1760! So a challenge to get the builder back to change it!! Basement is partial - with only front and back having external space. Sides below ground so wet walls unavoidable. That’s why I was thinking tanking might improve things and could not (?) make it worse.

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@SteveMYorks Thanks for that. But i was assuming if basement has a random rubble wall that’s below ground externally with a high water table you really can’t stop the water - other than enormous amounts of ventilation I suppose.

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@SteveMYorks @Jonatha09623375 Surely some tanked basements must have worked especially with improved ventilation?

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@severeweatherEU Bidart

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@daveegan @AerLingus Does that mean the non-stop flights now showing in October are also going to be cancelled?

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@johnevigar

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@SellickCon Always wondered what causes this?

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Red Squirrel or not? Hard to tell - are those ear tufts - in an area on the farm with Pine Martens but we have only seen Grey Squirrels - until today?

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@IrelandsFarmers Really interesting. Do you think you will have to exclude these areas from BPS when the canopy closes in time?

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@shacklej Do the plantains have any health benefits? Can cattle get too much of them? Asking as we have heavy ground and in some areas plantains dominate. Not sure they are great for silage either.

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@EwanBent @WHAssociation I have been trying to find a source for Eucalyptus glaucescens or nitens in Ireland or the UK for last few months with no luck. Any suggestions?

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@EwanBent @WHAssociation Fantastic. Were these e. glaucescens or e. nitens or something else?

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@diarsia @Jessica_Ham92 @wildfullstop @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife Thanks!

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@Jessica_Ham92 @wildfullstop @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife Any ideas on this one? Last week in Wicklow.

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@Irishwildlife @WildIreland What about this one? Can’t find it in any reference guides.

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@johnfseery @teagasc Really interesting. Be great if Teagasc could provide some figures on the cost to see if this approach would make financial sense given organic seed cost/mulching etc and opportunity cost of land out of production for 1 year?

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Amelie Moore, St. Gerard's School, Bray @StGerardsSch with her project, 'To Investigate the Incidence and Impact of Mocroplastics on Irish Farms' View Amelia's project at Stand No 1104 in the Biological & Ecological Sciences Section. #BTYSTE #btyse2019 #ItStartsHere

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@IanShort_Forest @teagascforestry When the tree canopies spread in time will DAFM not penalise BPS areas?

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Sycamore tree looking magnificent despite it being considered a nuisance plant - with the bonus of (I think) a Red Kite and the Moon.

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Bluebells are out