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Green Sod Land Trust - An Fóidín Glas ends the year on a high note

In the last issue of Organic Matters, we featured an article on the Green Sod Land Trust, a new charitable organisation set up in 2006 to protect and conserve land in Ireland. The vision of the Trust embraces the fact that the population of Ireland is more than the human population - we must take into account all other species. The Trust is a critical response to our growing alienation from our natural environment and aims to reconnect us with our native soil and our deepest roots in the land.

The Green Sod Land Trust is delighted to announce that it has just been gifted its first acre of land. "What a wonderful end to 2007, the year in which the Trust was granted charitable status," said Nellie McLaughlin, Chairperson of the Trust. "This is a very timely donation and we are deeply grateful to Mr. Barry Kavanagh, Beglieve, Bailieborough, Co. Cavan who, out of his passion for land conservation and biodiversity, has kindly donated this land. This acre is particularly symbolic as it is the first piece of land to be put under the protection of the Trust. The Trust moves into 2008 inviting others to do likewise."

It is the intention of the Trust to protect and conserve land in every county in Ireland and that crucial start has taken place in Co. Cavan.

The response to the last article has been very promising A number of schools around Ireland have contacted the Trust through their web site in relation to the on-line education initiative 'The Universe Story' . The schools are taking up the programme which integrates with the primary school curriculum and the Green Schools programme. There is a facility on the web site to become a friend of the Trust and by the beginning of 2008 symbolic sod cards will be available for purchase, the money from which will be used to buy land for protection for present and future generations.

www.greensodlandtrust.com.

Comments (2)

green sod land trust

2 Wednesday, 16 July 2008 20:05

claire Griffith

As a younge person i want to thank the trust for all they do.I would also like to encourage other people to take an intresate in the trust,espically younge people.You may not realsie it now but the trust is conserving Irelnad for us and our childeren.Is an Ireland destroyed really what you want to pass on to your childeren?Well done and thank you to all who are fighting for a better safer greener Irelnad.

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1 Saturday, 24 May 2008 05:00

Claire O'Malley

Wouldn't it be a wonderful centre of excellence for concerving all that is green and earth centred! The sisters in Ballinrobe have had a lovely garden there for many years. This could now become a truly organic garden and act as an example to all who are interested but lack the expertise in organic growing and living. We need such a place in the west- like Rossinver further north!

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