Agroforestry Open Weekend Friday 17 – Monday 20 May 2024
Broughgammon Farm
50 Straid Road
Ballycastle
Antrim
BT54 6NP
FACILITIES/REFRESHMENTS
Farm, shop & café open: Fri-Sun 11am-4pm
PARKING/ACCESS
DOGS: On Leads
DISABILITY ACCESS:
Concrete Yard, Stone Laneways, Disabled Bathroom
MORE INFORMATION?
@broughgammonfrm
Kilowna Farm
108 Whitechurch Road,
Ballywalter, Co Down.
Northern Ireland
BT22 2JY
Over Agroforestry Open Weekend 2024 we will be open Friday afternoon (2-5) Saturday afternoon (after 1pm ) and all Sunday
PLEASE DON’T JUST TURN UP
People should book please-email [email protected] 07796614870 So that I can ensure everyone gets a guided tour.
FACILITIES/REFRESHMENTS
Tea etc for those travelling
PARKING/ACCESS
Plenty of room to park in a hard stone yard
DOGS
No dogs please, there are sheep and ponies on the site.
DISABILITY ACCESS
It is all fairly flat over a grassy field but the track (300yds) is a bit rough. If it helps anyone I can take people around the site in an old LandRover-at their own risk.
MORE INFORMATION?
To book your visit please contact [email protected] 07796614870
Kilowna Farm is on the east coast of Co Down (2 miles from the most easterly point on the island of Ireland). The farm is a small, family-run mixed farm-sheep, grass and cereal.
The farm (12.5 ha) has 1 ha of woodland and 0.9 ha of silvopasture (planted in 1995 -mainly ash in an exposed coastal location) which I am restoring
- The farm (12.5 ha) has 1 ha of woodland and 0.9 ha of silvopasture (planted in 1995 -mainly ash in an exposed coastal location) which is being restored
- The farm has much better habitat quality than average for the area and better than the national average
- The trees make a significant contribution to the carbon balance of the farm- woodland, hedges and silvopasture (grazed ) account for 18% of the farm area and 22 % and 78% of the soil and above ground biomass respectively.
- Planting more silvopasture and hedges offers the best chance to sequester more carbon.
- The farm is not financially viable without subsidy (half the farm income last year), so keeping subsidy is vital
- In 2023 and 2024 we established c 500m of riparian buffer -some alongside the silvopasture
- As silvopasture is treated as agricultural land in NI, For the future, having more silvopasture would improve soil health and increase the farm carbon stock without loss of subsidy
