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Kinsale College Green Campus 2016 / 2017 (Biodiversity (Increase…
Kinsale College
Green Campus
2016 / 2017
Biodiversity
Create a Biodiversity baseline data set of Kinsale College
Complete a rough biodiversity basemap of the college - Donal Chambers (DC) + Thomas Riedmuller
Create a digital Sketch Up map of the site - DC + Istvan Markuly
Conduct Bird Surveys - Charleen Griffin
Increase habitat, niches
and forage for wildlife
Leaf Mould area built- Permaculture Students
Bird table stocked with food in winter - Ciara Parsons
Build and put up bird boxes - Donal Chambers, Jane Debanne, Mathilde Charpentier, Liam Watson ,Ciara Parsons
Planting in front of the round house completed - Jo Goodyear & Permaculture students
Bark Mulching - to provide fungal habitats
Permaculture Students
Wild Meadow for pollinators and bird food
planted in front of Polytunnel 2 - Ciara
Parsons & Iain Shekleton
Building a roof onto one of the insect hotels and planting it with wild flowers - Garry Jacobus & Amandine Delgado
Designate wild areas for plants with reduced /
delayed cutting to encourage wild flowers - DC +
College Management
Reduce invasive
species onsite
Remove seed heads and foliage from Gunnera - Charleen Griffin, Boris Desbertrand, Jake Erlandsen, John Fitzgerald
Manage soil
Organically
No chemicals used onsite - Permaculture
Department and Buildings office
Leaf mould, bark mulch, horse & chicken manure and compost used to enhance fertility and increase soil carbon - Permaculture Department
To promote the creation of a
European Soil Directive
Highlight it to students and other contacts - DC
Litter & Waste
Increase recycling & composting, and reduce waste going to landfill
Build an anaerobic Biodigester to accept food waste -
Istvan Markuly, DC & Permaculture Students
Research and install 2 new recycling bins in Staff
room and Childcare room - DC & Ciara Parson
Monitor and test out the bins - Jules Maher,
DC and Liz o Leary
Create / Design a functional and easily understood
sign for the bins - Jerome Teyssier
Energy
Reduce energy consumption by 10% by 2018
Insulate walls using hemp lime plaster -
Ulrike Riedmuller - Ongoing
To reduce embodied energy of food
Supply fresh vegetables to the cookery department for their meal presentations on a regular basis - DC Permaculture students
Supply fresh greens to local restaurants + produce a video of the process
Water Conservation
& Protection
To reduce water consumption by 10% by 2018
Install IBC tank to collect water from the shed above the polytunnel to supply them - Permaculture Level 6 + DC
Water butt installed at end of flat roof building to supply the pond and oxygenate it - Charleen Griffin, Tom Collins & Ciaran O Sullivan
To protect water
courses / bodies
removal of the invasive Gunnera from around the pond / cover stumps with plastic. Sharon McAuley & Charleen Griffin
removal of duckweed in the pond - Charleen Griffin
improve the lining and bottom of the pond - Charleen Griffin