The FarmYard, Lisnavagh is a living lab; a hub of innovation, resilience & sustainable living in County Carlow. People from all walks of life & all parts of the world come to the FarmYard to be inspired & to rethink their lifestyles by participating in events that explore the inextricable links and interdependencies between the arts, agriculture, biodiversity, community, innovation, technology, nature, the environment, health & wellbeing and climate action.
A compassionate, fair and regenerative society of empowered and resilient communities that live sustainably within planetary boundaries and thrive through inclusion, diversity, creativity and collaboration.
To inspire, innovate, ignite & expand public and political awareness of the potential of resilient communities within rural areas, villages, towns & cities to transform their localities and to help reach ambitious local and global level policy goals and targets, such as the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The intended impact of our ongoing events programming is to develop a dynamic and inclusive framework for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, learning and capacity-building to support communities to engage in and spread transformative action on the ground.
To provide a creative environment that promotes and supports accelerated learning, knowledge-sharing and collaboration among artists, community-led initiatives, marginalised groups such as asylum seekers, travellers, refugees, people living with disabilities, public agencies, cultural creatives & their networks in order to catalyse action that will result in systemic transformation across the country and beyond, with regard to climate change, biodiversity loss, nature and environmental degradation.
Climate change is the result of pushing the earth beyond the tipping point of what is sustainable. In order to reach our Paris Agreement Targets, we have to tackle the root causes. In doing so, it is possible to see that all of the causes are man-made and can therefore, be addressed by human intervention.
Through our Farmers Forum series of webinars and workshops, growers will share their experiences of the impacts of climate change and how their local communities are finding solutions.
The importance of the Arts in igniting people’s creativity and imagination when it comes to envisioning a peaceful, just and sustainable world cannot be underestimated. It’s no longer acceptable to view nature and the environment as an unlimited resource.
During our Heritage Week events that took place on August 12th, Dr. Eoin Donnelly, a professional hedge-layer & master craftsman will give a presentation on the traditional skills and
benefits of hedge-laying and the importance of protecting our environmental heritage.
William Bunbury is the Director of the Lisnavagh Timber Project and Bunbury Boards, who gave a talk about his work at Lisnavagh, which he has managed since 2000. He
has planted over 10,000 trees and has adopted a Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) approach. There was also a walk through the woodlands, looking at the life cycle of the trees on the Lisnavagh Estate.
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The FarmYard, Lisnavagh, Rathvilly,
Co. Carlow, Ireland
