Ideas Hub
Much of the success of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan can be attributed to the free sharing of knowledge across sectors. In our Ideas Hub, you can browse some project ideas from various sectors, as well as in-depth articles on various actions. The Hub will be updated with new projects as they happen. If you have a project you’d like to tell us about, please email [email protected]
Articles – Quick Search:
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Why we don’t recommend wildflower seed mixes – the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan wildflower seed homepages
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Spreading Seeds of Doubt – fake ‘wildflower’ mixes – By Dr Noeleen Smyth, National Botanic Gardens
- Why I don’t plant wildflower seed – By Dr Úna FitzPatrick, All-Ireland Pollinator Plan
- Why ‘wildflower seed’ is a prickly issue – By Prof Yvonne Buckley, Trinity College Dublin
- Debunking myths – The truth about seed bombs, beehives, and bee hotels – your questions answered
- Reducing mowing for pollinators – brilliant for bees, harder for humans! – the joys and pitfalls of creating a wildflower meadow
- Don’t mow, let it grow – and amazing things will happen! – how reducing grass cutting gives our native wildflowers a chance to bloom
- Practical advice on managing wildflower meadows – how natural meadows are flourishing under management practices of the Irish Wildlife Trust Laois/Offaly branch – By Anne Sundermann, Ricky Whelan and Brian Gaynor
- Creating a lawn spiral for pollinators – reduce mowing and create creative paths through your meadow
- Is your action for pollinators making a difference? You can help by tracking changes in insect pollinator populations
- Wildflowers – to plant or not to plant? Why buying wildflower seed is not always helpful– By Prof Jane Stout, Botany Dept, Trinity College Dublin
- Summer bedding – making the switch to pollinator-friendly bedding plants– By Peter Cuthbert, Horticultural Services
- Does the lockdown bring any silver linings? – Rare orchids return as mowing stops– By Dr Mark McCorry & Dr Fiona MacGowan, BSBI
How various sectors are helping pollinators:
FARMLAND:
COUNCILS:
BUSINESSES
- New AIPP Businesses: actions to help pollinators guidelines
- Case studies: AIPP business supporters
- Raise awareness of pollinators in your ‘value chain’
- Pollinator-friendly procurement
- Sponsorship for pollinators
- Guidelines for new housing developments (Cluid supported by the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan)
- Step by step for Agri-food processors and their farm suppliers/growers
- Car parks for pollinators
- The business of helping pollinators
TRANSPORT CORRIDORS:
- Life on the edge – Donna Rainey, founder of the ‘Don’t Mow, Let it Grow’ project
GARDENS:
- Bumblebees are good for you – Dr Una FitzPatrick on how her garden welcomes bumblebees
- 8 ways to help pollinators without ever leaving your garden
COMMUNITIES:
- Creating a Pollinator Corridor in Ballincollig
- Communities helping our endangered pollinators
- Monaghan’s ‘Dispersed Urban Orchard’ for Pollinators
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Kilkenny – Keep Kilkenny Beautiful community group is building a bee-friendly city
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Ennis proves you can feed the bees and still win the Tidiest Town award!
SCHOOLS:
RECORDING: