There’s no doubt about it, trees give us many things and over the course of this programme series we have heard about many of these benefits. But probably one of

The Acorn Project is a community engagement project in Kilkenny which aims to build connection with nature through developing workshops that get people out into the woodlands, saving seeds, planting

OSB is an example of an engineered wood product. And what is OSB- Orientated Strand Board? Well, have a listen to find out. In this programme Monica meets Neil Foot,

Andrew O’Carroll is Kilkenny’s Representative on the National IFA Farm Forestry Committee and Monica meets him and Michael Somers, Forestry Advisor with Teagasc and regular contributor to this series, at

At the John F Kennedy Arboretum in New Ross Co Wexford there is a big collection of trees from all over the world. These trees are nice to look at

This week Monica visits Lisnavagh House in Rathvilly Co Carlow to meet William Bunbury. He has come up with ways to add value to the hardwood trees that have fallen

In this programme Monica takes a visit to the Castlecomer Discovery Park to explore the role of Trees in supporting our mental health and wellbeing. The Castlecomer Discovery Park is

In this programme, recorded at Teagasc Oak Park research centre in Carlow, Frances McHugh, Forestry Advisor and Ian Short, Dheeraj Rathore and Oliver Sheridan, research scientists, talk about how the

Agroforestry seems to be the answer to farmers worries in relation to trees and taking land out of use for 50 or 60 years – which is the case under

People are buying their Christmas Trees earlier than before. That’s according to Michael O’Gorman of Celtic Christmas Trees who has been working hard the past month harvesting, packing, delivering and

Ballintemple Tree Nursery is situated just outside Ardattin Co Carlow and it is here that Coillte process their seeds and rear trees from seed for planting out into the forest,

In this programme we meet Mick Power, National Estates Manager with Coillte with responsibility of biotic risk. We meet in the beautiful Castlemorris Woods in Co Kilkenny where a mixture

This week the focus is on the Oak tree. It’s presence in our life does not and should not depend on its economic value but a new use for its

Trees and water courses have evolved together over thousands of years to their mutual benefit. As humans, we benefit from trees near water courses because they hold the rainwater and

Other European countries are blessed with a long tradition of planting trees. We lost this tradition somewhere along the line and the Irish state is now trying to encourage private

This programme series ‘Trees: From Seed to Sawdust’ looks at the value of trees, not just from an economic perspective but also in relation to their ability to store carbon.

For thousands of years the wood from the trees has been a source of material from which music can be made. In fact the oldest musical instrument ever to be

In this programme we explore the concept of sustainable forestry management and how the letters FSC and PEFC certify wood products which have been made from forests managed sustainably. The

Rod and Julie Calder Potts grow apple trees at Highbank Orchard just off the Callan Road Kilkenny. Rod inherited the orchard from his parents and in 1986 he decided that

In the first programme, we look at the story of trees from when our Celtic ancestors worshipped them to today when we value them for timber and for environmental reasons.