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What the landowner will need to commit to

  1. A Suitable Site: About 100 square metres of eligible* land to accommodate 50 trees.
  2. Willingness to plant and protect the woodland habitat: A willingness to plant and, if necessary, fence the trees within one week of receiving the trees in line with best practice guidance provided by The Hare’s Corner.  (Tree distribution day is usually held in December or January).
  3. Long term management: Your assurance that this site will be actively maintained for the next 3 years – maintanance will include keeping competing vegetation down and protecting the trees from grazers.
  4. Progress update: Your willingness to provide feedback and progress update on the trees when requested by The Hare’s Corner team.
  5. Signage Your agreement to erect a small, simple branded sign at the site (only applicable to a public site)
  6. Data: Your agreement that your anonymised data (location of your trees and images) will be used by The Hare’s Corner project for its communications and reporting purposes.

*An eligible site for creating a new woodland would be species-poor, non-designated site so that there is no overall biodiversity loss and/or impact on any pre-existing heritage value of the place. Farmers who are ACRES or NPWS Farm Plan Scheme participants are currently not eligible to apply as we want to avoid double funding.

What The Hare’s Corner team will commit to

  1. Organising the necessary training and guidance. A training webinar and Q&A session is held few weeks before the tree distribution day (usually November). Guidance material is also provided on the tree-pick up.
  2. Supplying 50 or more native trees of 7-10 different species including less common ones like the Burren pine, aspen and black poplar and more common specis like oak, alder, birch, hawthorn, hazel and holly
  3. Providing ‘The Hare’s Corner’ branded signage for your site if applicable.

Testimonials

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We received guidance and funding and more importantly encouragement to create a wildlife pond from The Hare’s Corner team. One and half years later, we did a study on it and identified 30 different species in and around the pond. Our members really enjoy this pond and now we are designated as one of just six ponds in the whole country as a demonstration site for ponds.

Connie Corry of Ennis Men’s Shed
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I was able to create a woodland, an orchard and a pond through The Hare’s Corner. I have 2.5 acres of land that was heavily grazed before and I am gradually working on it bring nature back. With the actions taken so far you can already see biodiversity increasing. The main highight for me has been the opportunity to work with the land and have a connection with nature. That has been very rewarding.

John McGovern
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Receiving a ‘Plan for Nature’ visit from The Hare’s Corner was like getting an education on your own land, opening your eyes to something you mightn’t have noticed before. The Plan for Nature advisor identified 8 areas on our land for us where we could make small and very manageable changes to enhance biodiversity. The tips were priceless – and came with a map of our site and I keep them handy on my phone at all times.

 

Maeve Ryan
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We were able to plant a mini-woodland on our site using the native trees given by The Hare’s Corner project  – oak, birch, hazel, hawthorn, spindle, alder and the Burren pine. I have great vision of this developing into a wonderful gladed woodland one day. Under recommendations of the project we also were able to develop a network of holding pools to slow down the water running down our hillside site and minimise flooding downhill. Getting specialist guidance has gives us confidence to do the right thing and bring out the best in our land for nature.

Kate Meleady
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We had a wonderful ecologist come visit our land as part of our ‘Plan for Nature’. She advised us on which trees to plant where, and what kind of grazing would allow us to have more flora and fauna thrive on the site. She showed us different types of lichens, mosses and flowers that we hadn’t noticed before. We now have a lot better appreciation of the habitats we already have on our land!

Sean Bromley and Leslie Maya Souchere
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I dug a pond and planted a heritage orchard through The Hare’s Corner project. Obviously there is a loads of advice on theinternet but having someone come and look at the site and assess it for suitability and design – that was a huge incentive for me. There is a lot of action on the pond – a lot of frogs, dragonflies, swallows going mad for it in the summer and we get the odd ducks too.

Edel Barry

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