Donal Sheehan
2023
Donal Sheehan is dairy farmer in the Bride valley area of County Cork, Ireland. He initiated the BRIDE Project (Biodiversity Regeneration In a Dairying Environment), a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Project. This involved working with a network of local farmers and setting up templates and knowledge transfer for the wider agricultural community on different aspects of environmental and sustainable food production practices. Emerging from the BRIDE project, Donal has developed a concept called ‘Farming with Nature’ designed to connect individual farmers to food consumers at point of purchase.
My Sessions
Landscape Scale Regeneration – Connecting Ecology, Community & Culture
Abby Rose
Sarah Prosser
Donal Sheehan
Pieter Ploeg
How can people work together and think about land restoration beyond just their own farm? We hear about three initiatives which demonstrate just how much community resilience can be achieved when farmers are able to collaborate. The kind of support that Commonland provides could help farmers to collectively navigate the tensions many are experiencing on […]