2020 GLAS TRADITIONAL FARM BUILDINGS GRANT SCHEME SEMINAR 12 March - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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2020 GLAS TRADITIONAL FARM BUILDINGS GRANT SCHEME SEMINAR 12 March 2020 www.brookfield.farm Glas Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Heritage Council with DAFM GLAS Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme Significant heritage value,

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2020 GLAS TRADITIONAL FARM BUILDINGS GRANT SCHEME SEMINAR 12 March 2020

www.brookfield.farm

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Glas Traditional Farm Buildings Grant

  • Heritage Council with DAFM
  • GLAS Traditional Farm Buildings Grant Scheme
  • Significant heritage value, contribute to the

character of the landscape

  • Conserved for active agricultural use
  • Traditional Farm outbuildings, including walls,

gate pillars, yard surfaces.

  • Minimal intervention – repair but don’t set out to

do too much work

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Brookfield Farm

Integrated and diverse farm and business

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Dry Stone Walls

Nearly 1km

  • f dry stone

walls enclosing a broadleaf wood. Most in poor condition.

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Dry Stone Walls repair

  • Clearing

scrub from walls

  • Collapsed

walls - buried stones

  • Rebuilding

by CELT

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Dry Stone Walls repair

  • Finished

double wall and corner

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Dry Stone Walls repair

  • Finished

double wall and corner

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Dry Stone Walls repair

  • 75% grant for

wall repair enclosing wood

  • Native

Woodland designation

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Dry Stone Walls repair

Having a go – slow work! CELT provided highly skilled trainer Bob and trainees.

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Dry Stone Walls Drone view 2018

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Meeting Prince Charles

Heritage Council, Kilkenny 11th May 2017

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Background Brookfield Farm

  • 30 ha farm (c. 75 acres)

– 15 ha arable – 6 ha broadleaf forestry planted 1996 – 3 ha native woodland – 6 ha grass/ forage

  • Farming:

– arable (barley, wheat, oil seed rape) – timber, forestry – Lamb sold directly – Forage crops: hay, silage

  • Farm Business:

– Beekeeping - Honey + Hiveshare + – Handmade beeswax candles – Visitor Experiences

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Brookfield Farm – recent activity

  • RDS Sustainable Farming, Sustainable Living Award Winner 2019
  • Farming for Nature Honorary Ambassador 2019
  • Farming for Nature Awards nominee 2018
  • Bank of Ireland Start Up Awards – Bronze award winner Creative

Retail and Craft awards 2017

  • Bank of Ireland Start Up Awards Regional finalist Sustainable Start

up 2016

  • Nuffield Agricultural Scholar awarded 2016
  • National Ploughing Championships Innovation Arena 2016.

Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Farmers Journal

  • Selected Design Ireland Best Gifts RDS National Craft + Design Fair

2016 + 2017 + 2018

  • Design Council of Ireland Member
  • Member Tipperary Food Producers' Network
  • Great Taste Awards judge 2016
  • Tipperary Green Business Network member
  • ACORNS programme 2016 + 2017 + 2018 (competitive rural

female entrepreneur programme)

  • A Taste of Lough Derg - Tipperary County Council food producers’
  • promotion. 2014 - 2020
  • Awarded alumnus IFOAM (Organics International) Global Organic

Agriculture Leaders’ programme, scholarship winner 2015

  • IFOAM Masterclass Korea Scholarship winner 2017
  • Winner Irish Times Artisan Food Producers' competition 2014
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Brookfield Farm – Thank you!

Ailbhe Gerrard

www.brookfield.farm ailbhe@brookfield.farm Facebook: BrookfieldFarmProduce twitter: @farmbrookfield Instagram: Brookfield.farm Youtube: Brookfield.farm https://youtu.be/ZtTX0D0o7ok