Bríd óg Norrby sent us this latest news:
We were delighted to work with the Tidy Towns, the Community Association and other interested parties in the village to agree on a Biodiversity Plan for Prosperous. This is a very extensive plan which contains advice and suggested projects which will greatly increase biodiversity and promote awareness in the village. We are very happy to have this plan in place which means that the Eco Parish Group and other community groups are now united in protecting and increasing biodiversity. The plan will also give us real focus and direction in the coming years. We are already planning our first action to be taken together.
The hundreds of bee friendly Spring bulbs we planted in the autumn in the Eco Parish garden put on a great show this spring. Crocuses, snowdrops and bluebells brought some welcome colour to the Church grounds.
Another great success we had this Spring was our Tree Give Away. Our event was very well supported and we gave out over 700 trees to the community in a little over an hour. These were mostly (but not all) native Irish saplings which were kindly supplied by Easy Treesie.
This week for National Biodiversity Week we gave our Eco Parish garden some TLC. We mulched around our younger trees and labelled them and also stuck in labels beside some of the wildflowers that have come up. We planted some Meadow Sweet, Ox Eye Daisys and Scabious and some locally saved wildflower seeds. One of our volunteers will do a plant survey on the garden latter in the summer.
One of our members Sr. Maureen has been very busy attending protests around the country taking a stand on environmental destruction. In her own words she is “raising awareness of wounded places in nature especially on pilgrimage along the river Shannon and prayers of lament at the sight of such destruction and pollution of God’s Creation…..and raising awareness of the damage to the global south caused by continuing unethical investment in fossil fuels, by banks and asset funds in Ireland”.