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Living Woodlands (founded by two brothers, Colm and John Galvin) is a social enterprise with a simple

23/03/2026

A snap of Mitchelstown Allotments Group attending the site selection workshop as part of our Biodiversity Haven Community Training Programme. The aim of the Programme is to equip communities with the skills and competence to undertake their own biodiversity restoration projects. This workshop focused on choosing the correct site for a mini woodland and understanding the on site soil conditions.

Four Community groups are undertaking this training funded through LEADER and Ballyhoura Development Company.

05/02/2026

We had a fantastic day planting a Biodiversity Haven at the new Educate Together Secondary School in Limerick City. We had the help of the amazing crew from the Green Schools Committee. We had 300 native trees planted and mulched in record time!

Our sincere thanks to everyone involved!

30/12/2025

Our final planting day of 2025!

On a very cold and wet day in December we planted a beautiful native hedgerow in a housing estate outside Tramore. This 30 metre long hedgerow will protect the existing mature hedgerow and will allow it to naturally regenerate and fill the space in between. Our new hedgerow also has a diverse range of species and will increase the diversity of the seed available in the area.

This is a wonderful example of transforming a neglected green area in an urban setting and transforming it into something beautiful.

This project was supported by and the Impact for Munster Fund 2024. Many thanks to Mary and the members of the resident's association for all their help.

19/12/2025

We returned to Charleville Community Park today to install the permaculture orchard. This is an example of the 'fruit guild' method of planting which means each fruit tree is surrounded by a wide variety of companion plants. These are native Irish plants that are chosen for a range of beneficial properties such as bringing nutrients from deep in the soil, attracting pollinators, repelling pests or for their medicinal or edible qualities.

This method of planting the orchard leads to very healthy fruit trees and is also very aesthetically pleasing. It takes into consideration the ecological relationships between the fruit trees and the plant communities and the soil microbiology.

Fruit trees from .

18/12/2025

Doon Social Farm Biodiversity Haven Planting Day

Well, it's not all glamour you know!. Some days the conditions are little more challenging than others and the rain for the planting day at Doon Social Farm was pretty epic. Despite the rain we planted 1000 trees in a mini woodland designed to act as a shelter belt for the wonderful organic veggies they grow on the farm.

Thank you to the local 3rd year lads who came to lend a hand and all the amazing volunteers who braved the rain!

Thanks also to Marian and the wonderful for the much needed soup and sandwiches!

This Biodiversity Haven was created with the financial support of and the Impact for Munster Fund 2024.

14/12/2025

Charleville Park Biodiversity Haven Planting Day

Some moments from our recent planting day in Charleville. We planted over 1000 trees with the help of the Tidy Towns committee and the local school kids. The site was carefully mulched after planting to protect the tree roots but also to feed the fungal microbiology in the soil.

A wonderful day under blue skies!

This Biodiversity Haven was funded through the Community Climate Action Programme through Cork County Council.

We are so grateful to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen.

05/12/2025

Our first planting day of the new season!

We were in Charleville Community Park on Tuesday where we created a mini woodland Biodiversity Haven in the centre of the park. We had amazing help from the local Tidy Towns committee and the local schools who helped us plant 1000 native trees and mulched the site.

We will return in the new year to create a community orchard beside the mini woodland. The intention here is to link these new areas of biodiversity with an existing mature native hedgerow - creating a habitat corridor for birds and insects.

This is a wonderful example of how we can transform these underused green spaces in our towns into thriving ecosystems.

Thank you to everyone who has been involved in the project so far.

This project has been funded through the Community Climate Action Fund.

12/10/2025

WOULD YOU LIKE A FULLY FUNDED BIODIVERSITY HAVEN FOR YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY?

We are delighted to announce that we have won 's Impact for Munster Fund Award 2024! This incredible financial support will allow us to work with a further 7 communities to create wonderful Biodiversity Havens in their local area. These Biodiversity Havens will be mini-woodlands, native hedgerows or even community orchards!

Would you like a Biodiversity Haven for your community?

We are already working with 4 Munster communities on plans for their biodiversity projects which means we can fund 3 more havens through the Impact for Munster Award. If you are interested in creating a Biodiversity Haven in your local area (or know someone who is) and you live in the Munster region we would love to hear from you!

Please message me through Instagram or email me @ [email protected] just telling me a little about your community group or school and where you are in Munster. Ideally you might even have a site in mind and have permission if it is council land.

Our Biodiversity Havens are about more than just planting trees - they build healthy soils, create ecosystems and vital habitats for wildlife as well as being beautiful places for humans to be surrounded by nature.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

12/09/2025

A stunning fragment of native rainforest on the lower northeastern slope of Bentee outside Cahersiveen. Sadly, it is surrounded on two sides by intensive farmland and a Sitka plantation to the south and therefore cannot expand.

How can we reimagine land use outside one dimensional economics to include the immeasureable ecological value and beauty of such a place..?

05/09/2025

As these these two gorgeous Alder trees demonstrate, rooted as they are into the mortar of an old bridge outside Cahersiveen, there are truly very few places in Ireland where trees won't grow.

If they are allowed...

13/02/2025

Our wonderful group of volunteers from . Together, we planted thousands of trees in the winter sunshine Biodiversity Haven.

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