This week on Ours to Protect we’re taking a look at a project to grow native trees that’s being rolled out in 35 primary schools across Kerry. From September almost a thousand children will learn how to grow their own oak trees from acorns gathered locally.
The project is the brain child of Local Roots, a mid-Kerry voluntary group, that propagates native trees from seed and helps provide the manpower to plant them.
A pilot project was run in 4 primary schools last year and the 4th class students of Scoil Réalt na Mara in Cromane were the among the first children in Kerry to grow oak trees from acorns.
For more on this listen in to www.radiokerry.ie
