by Sean | Jan 13, 2023 | Latest News
It’s a lot more than you might think! The Giants Grove project is a partnership between Crann – Trees for Ireland, and Birr Castle Estate. On the surface it’s basically an 8 hectare (20 acre) green-field afforestation project in the heart of Ireland that was launched...
by Sean | Sep 29, 2022 | Latest News
With Autumn here and Halloween approaching, the Sequoias of the Giants Grove are settling in to their long sleep for the winter. They deserve it. They survived frost, flood, storms, drought, deer and thistles, taking it all in stride. Like us all, they’ll probably...
by Sean | Sep 29, 2022 | Latest News
The Giants Grove is a forest like few others, for many reasons. It is the largest Redwood forest outside of its native California, a gene-pool to protect the Redwood species from climate change, a symbol of the Irish diaspora, and a continuous-cover eco-forest that...
by Sean | Jun 23, 2022 | Latest News
The worlds first forest management school was founded in the University of Giessen, the Holy Roman Empire, in 1778. For the majority of those almost 250 years the basic forest management tools were the humble pencil & paper. Data collected in the field was...
by Sean | Apr 7, 2021 | Latest News
While sequoias are the ‘stars’ of the Giants Grove, the project is about so much more than just the Redwoods. The Grove, planted and managed for forest biodiversity, is an ecosystem that will continue to develop and improve as the Giants grow bigger and taller over...
