World Soil Day Seminar Mon 5 th Dec Launching the People4Soil Campaign

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1 World Soil Day Seminar Mon 5 th Dec Launching the People4Soil Campaign National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin Dublin 9 Ireland Registration Tea/Coffee Introduction and Welcome - Felicity Gaffney and Michael Ewing Klaus Laitenberger. "All of life depends on the physical, chemical and biological health of our soil - Stop Treating Soil Like Dirt" Dr Matthew Jebb - Botanic Gardens "Exploring relationships between the soil and the plant Helen Kelly "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves" Gandhi Cian O Mahony EPA Land Use and Soils in the EPA s State of the Environment Report for 2016 An Overview Michael Ewing Environmental Pillar Launching the People4Soil Campaign Lunch Joan Rogers Gardener - National Botanic Gardens, A short walk in the organic vegetable garden to see the approaches taken in managing the soil for organic produce Rob Krawczyk - Head Chef of Brabazon Restaurant at Tankardstown House Healthy Soils, Food and People Nicky Kyle - "There is life after soil abuse - practical ways that gardeners can help to restore damaged soils" Dr Michael H.B. Hayes - University of Limerick Humus, Humics, Humin: Importance in Soil Fertility and in Carbon Sequestration 3.35 Discussion Panel Open Forum 4.00pm close

2 Speakers Felicity Gaffney Felicity Gaffney has responsibility for events, exhibitions and public education programmes at the National Botanic Gardens. She manages the Education Team and has developed the public education and schools programme at the NBG for a number of years. Felicity has an MSc. in Education for Sustainability from London South Bank University and a postgrad in Botanic Gardens Education from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Michael Ewing is the Coordinator of the Environmental Pillar, a coalition of 28 national environmental NGOs and of the Irish Environmental Network Previously he led an EPA-funded research team at the Centre for Sustainability, IT Sligo, investigating the state of environmental democracy in Ireland. He has also worked as a facilitator and as a consultant in the fields of environmental governance and ecology. He has been growing vegetables organically for his family for forty years. Klaus Laitenberger has been growing organic vegetables for over twenty years in the UK and Ireland. He was the Head Gardener at the Organic Centre in Rossinver, Co. Leitrim for seven years. He started the garden restoration in Lissadell House in Co. Sligo. He now works as a self-employed trainer, mentor and consultant in organic horticulture. Since 2012 he works as an organic inspector for the Organic Trust and lectures on the MSc Organic Horticulture course in Skibbereen. Klaus is also the author of three books: Vegetables for the

3 Irish Garden, Vegetables for the Polytunnel and Greenhouse and A Vegetable Growers Handbook. Matthew Jebb is the Director of the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. He undertook his primary degree and D.Phil at Oxford University. His Ph.D. looked at the taxonomy and tuber morphology of the rubiaceous ant-plants. Following a 5-year appointment as Director of the Christensen Research Institute at Madang, Papua New Guinea, Matthew took up a 2-year post-doc position at Trinity College Dublin. This work worked involved preparation of a revision of the Araliaceae for the Flora of Thailand project. Matthew has revised the family Nepenthaceae for Flora Malesiana. Helen Kelly from Glenties Co. Donegal...her background is in Family Support and Parenting. Central to her work is the belief that the source of our wellness is intrinsically connected to our relationship with the Earth. Cian O Mahony has worked in the Environmental Protection Agency for 8 years. Cian is a member of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Team based in Cork. Cian is involved in the review of Plans and Programmes, falling under the remit of the SEA Directive, on behalf of the Agency. He holds an MSc in Geology from University College Dublin and a BSc in Geology from University College Cork. Cian is a keen landscape/seascape photographer, hillwalker and all-round nature enthusiast.

4 Joan Rogers is responsible for the Organic Vegetable Garden at NBG She was fundamental in achieving the Organic Status for the walled garden with IOFGA in Joan has worked as part of the horticulture team in the National Botanic Gardens for a number of years and is a graduate of the Teagasc College of Horticulture based in the Gardens. Rob Krawczyk Head Chef of Brabazon Restaurant at Tankardstown House Rob is the current holder of the RAI Best Chef in Leinster title having retained the award for the second year. Krawczyk has been at the helm in Brabazon at Tankardstown since February Since joining Tankardstown, he has introduced an in house smoker and being the son of the well-known Charcuterie expert Frank Krawczyk in the West Cork Slow Food movement, Rob grew up in a house where food was foraged and created from local seasonal produce where possible. A rule he still runs with today and many of the dishes on his tasting menus in particular are based on what is available for fresh picking from the Walled Kitchen Garden and Polytunnels on the Tankardstown estate. Nicky Kyle has been growing food organically for over 40 years and was one of Ireland's first certified organic commercial growers in the early 1980s. She was a director of IOFGA and also co-founder and director of The Organic Trust. She writes a blog about organic gardening, poultry keeping, wildlife gardening, healthy eating and cooking - She also writes a monthly column in The Irish Garden Magazine, and is co-presenter of the popular 'From Tunnel to Table' series on LMFM Radio's award-winning Late Lunch Show with Gerry Kelly.

5 Michael H.B. Hayes, Research Professor, CS Department University of Limerick Leading role in awareness of the molecular associations concept of humic components, in bringing about almost complete isolation of the organic components of soil, and in establishing linkages in the core structures of humic substances. Has, with colleagues, shown that humin is primarily composed of biological molecules in intimate associations with clays. Helped to resolve the structure of water in the interlayer spacings of expanding lattice clays; resolved the mechanisms of interactions with clay surfaces of quaternized aromatic organocations; had a major role in resolving several mechanisms of interactions between anthropogenic chemicals and humic substances; led the research that first achieved the introduction of 15 Å iron oxide pillars between the layers of expanding lattice clays.