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Water-friendly Farm Walk 2

Mon 10 Oct

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Cookstown

Visit a dairy farm piloting a low cost, nature-based solution to capture and recycle nutrients on the farm.

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Water-friendly Farm Walk 2
Water-friendly Farm Walk 2

Time & Location

10 Oct 2022, 10:30 – 12:00

Cookstown, 77 Killycurragh Rd, Cookstown BT80 9LP, UK

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Do you have waterways on your farmland and worry about the risk of pollution?

Do you want to know how to check the water quality for yourself?

Are you struggling with the rising cost of fertiliser and want to learn how to make your own free fertiliser?

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. These solutions are designed to minimise the amount of productive land needed, are simple to install and easy to maintain.

Join us on a tour of Henry's dairy farm to see how a system of swales planted with comfrey and willow tackles their farmyard run-off. Both plants absorb nutrients from the dirty water but, comfrey has an added benefit as it can be harvested to provide the farm with it's own free source of fertiliser. The project is…

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