Bird & Bat Boxes..

• The Happy Bird Box Company

Reps 4 Biodiversity option
Bird & Bat Boxes
Must be fitted before end of the first year of your plan
Take the easy option
Get your 8 Boxes for the special price of 120 Euros,
Specially designed & made to last by Aran & Darryl Connell of the Happy Bird Box Company,
The Bird House @ Fortview House,
Gurtyowen,
Toormore,Goleen,
West Cork.

Tel: Richard...Aran & Darryl's dad...on 086-2758052

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Teagasc (Agriculture & Food Development Authority)
in association with Coillte Nurseries,Hedge Laying Association of Ireland,Professional Agricultural Contractors of Ireland & Irish Seed Savers Association are holding this series of demonstrations.

Invites all farmers to a nationwide series of Biodiversity Demonstrations being held in January & February..Topics covered will include *Tree Planting *LINNET crops for Wildlife *Rejuvenation of hedgerows *Planting native Irish hedgerows *Planting traditional Irish orchards

Teagasc Biodiversity Demonstration will be held on the farm of Richard Connell,Gurtyowen,Toormore,Goleen,West Cork on Tuesday January 29th @ 2.00pm.

For further inquires check out : www.teagasc.ie

Growing Awareness Walk

Some of the attendance at a recent farm walk on our farm organised by Growing Awareness a Skibbereen based food & farming group.

The aim of Growing Awareness is to ensure that everyone has access to food grown & produced in a way that restores respect for the earth,respect for food & respect for farmers & growers.

Latest details & news available at:
www.growingawareness.org where you can sign up for free e-mail reminders.


Home Farm,Toormore
Sunday 26th August , 2007
"The Home Farm is a 55 acre REPS demonstration beef and
dairy farm. Extensive plantings of hedgerows and a large constructed wetland for waste water treatment. Also new woodland planting. The farm won the national RDS farming and conservation award in 2000"

"Take me on an Irish Farm Stay"
Excerpt from Irish "TATLER" magazine ...September 2007

Violet & Richard Connell began taking guests in 1993 and have become one of the pioneering families involved in Irish farm stays. Situated in picturesque Gurtyowen, West Cork, Fortview House offers both self-catering accommodation and bed and breakfast.Specialising in bringing guests back to nature,www.fortviewhouse.ie is a charming mix of information about the family and the packages they offer.

Local Farmers' Markets

Ballydehob 10.30-12pm -Friday

Bandon 10.30-1pm - Friday

Bantry 1st Friday of month

Castletownbere 1st Thursday of month

Clonakility 10am-2pm Thursday & Saturday

Dunmanway 10am-2pm- Friday

English Market Cork-Everyday

Kenmare Kerry 10am-6pm- Wed-Sun(7days July & August)

Mahon Point Cork City 10am-2pm- Thursday

Midleton 10am-2pm-Saturday

Schull 10am-3pm-Sunday

Skibbereen 10am-2pm-Saturday

http://www.fortviewhouse.ie

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