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Agroforestry Open Weekend at Kilowna Farm

Fri 19 May

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Kilowna Farm

Kilowna Farm is on the east coast of Co Down (2 miles from the most easterly point on the island of Ireland). The farm is a small, family-run mixed farm-sheep, grass and cereal.

Agroforestry Open Weekend at Kilowna Farm
Agroforestry Open Weekend at Kilowna Farm

Time & Location

19 May 2023, 13:00 – 21 May 2023, 17:00

Kilowna Farm, 108 Whitechurch Rd, Ballywalter, Newtownards BT22 2JY, UK

About the event

  • The farm (12.5 ha) has 1 ha of woodland and 0.9 ha of silvopasture (planted in 1995 -mainly ash in an exposed coastal location) which I am restoring

  • The farm has much better habitat quality than average for the area and better than the national average

  • The trees make a significant contribution to the carbon balance of the farm- woodland, hedges and silvopasture (grazed ) account for 18% of the farm area and 22 % and  78% of the soil and above ground biomass respectively.

  • Planting more silvopasture and hedges offers the best chance to sequester more carbon.

  • The farm is not financially viable without subsidy (half the farm income last year),  so keeping subsidy is vital

  • We have just established c 500m of riparian buffer -some alongside the silvopasture

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