Getting to know our Wildflowers

Barrow Brew, Co. Carlow
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25 August 2025
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This year’s Heritage Week theme is Connections, Routes and Networks. Nowhere can we reconnect with our heritage more than in the plants in our hedgerow. These are the same plants our forebears foraged for food, tools, and medicine. They're part of the fabric of our stories and support our lives just the same today. Today they are largely forgotten, invisible workhorses keeping our world turning. This Heritage Week reconnect with nature as you learn how to ID our native wildflowers and hear their stories.

We’ll be walking along the canal at Milford weir, joining the Barrow, walking along a once major travel route and learning about our biodiversity. We’ll be sharing the uses of plants past and present including whether they’re edible or not. We'll also share a bite of the ones that are and have refreshing wild tisanes.

Meeting at the Barrow Brew. Please wear appropriate clothing for our lovely Irish summers. As this event is beside a river, the path may be muddy, so please wear appropriate footwear.

We are limiting this event to 15 people. Please book your ticket on Eventbrite.

This event is sponsored by the Local Authority Waters Programme in co-operation with the Ballinabranna/Milford/Raheendoran Development Group.

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Barrow Brew, Co. Carlow

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