Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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'No till & conservation agriculture'

Tom Tierney runs a 200-acre regenerative tillage farm in county Kildare. He has been running a direct drilling system since 2015 and has observed tremendous benefits of this lower soil disturbance method for life both above and below the soil surface. He has reduced the amount of synthetic inputs required on the farm and there has been no insecticide used on the land in 6 years. He has two wormery’s on the farm and he makes his own bio-stimulants from vermi-juice, seaweed, molasses and silica which further build the soil biology. There is about 30 acres of mixed forestry on the farm, 60% hardwood and 40% softwood and Tom operates a continuous cover forestry system. There are about 12 acres of conservation areas on the farm. There is an acre of wetland with naturally regenerating woodland. There are 7 acres of wildflowers on the farm and 4 acres of permanent clover.


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