Tue, 16 May
|Cookstown
Water-friendly Innovative Farm Walk
Visit a farm utilising its spring water to grow native plants
Time & Location
16 May, 14:00 – 15:00
Cookstown, 16 Ballynagilly Rd, Cookstown BT80 9SX, UK
Guests
About the event
Could you make better use of spring water on your farm?
Join us on a tour of Creeve Cottage Farm to see how spring water can be captured to grow native wetland plants using practices to maintain growth over the winter months, and help contribute to better water management on the farm.
The Water Innovation Network have been trialling low cost nature-based solutions to capture and clean dirty water on farms, and provide farmers with harvestable crops. Whilst dirty water is not an issue on Creeve Cottage Farm, there is a significant volume of spring water which has been utilised to grow native wetland plants and trees in spring-fed beds. This spring-fed nursery has been developed to help produce plants for use in nature-based systems on other farms.
If interested, please RSVP below and arrive at the location and time listed below:
Farm location: Creeve Cottage Farm, 16 Ballynagilly Road, Cookstown, BT80 9SX.
Farm tour: Tuesday 16th May 2023, 2:00pm – 3:00pm.