Each Spring, we do a lot of planting – plants being sold at our Open Days in aid of charity. Two years ago we starting collecting leaves to try, through composting, to make our own compost. This has been moderately successful. The leaves have rotted down, but due to our school building programme, the resultant compost is inaccessible. Also, for building reasons, planting has been curtailed. We hope to restart a tree nursery in the spring - the emphasis being on the growing of native Irish trees. We are presently searching for suitable seeds - acorns, beech mast, etc. Acorns in particular seem scarce this year.

Our new school will have quite a large garden and we will take composting many steps further. We have therefore postponed the building of a compost heap and the acquisition of a wormery until the Spring.