Resilience of The Bealtaine Project as Drought and Heatwave Ravage Ireland

Extreme weather conditions have struck once again here in Ireland.

Planting over eleven hundred trees over fourteen years has meant resilience for Bealtaine Cottage.

This continual onslaught of extreme weather is fast establishing itself as the new normal!

From the normally mild summers of Ireland and the UK, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past two weeks!

This should be a wake-up call to plant…trees!

 Only three months ago the country ground to a halt with severe snow storms and massive fall of snow in 48 hours!

Now we are experiencing a heatwave and severe drought which we haven’t had since 1976!

There was a hurricane here in Ireland last year and a massive six hour thunderstorm that did incredible damage.

The Irish Meteorological service, Met Éireann says there will be ‘practically nothing’ in terms of rainfall for the next ten days!

And so it continues unabated!

There has been less than 20mm of rain since May 1st with twelve days of sweltering heat and temps approaching 32c (90F) with no end in sight.

This is the third major record breaking weather story in just nine months – from autumn hurricanes to winter snow storms and now a summer drought!

Have you noticed the effect of this heatwave and drought here at Bealtaine Cottage? Many of you are familiar with the Bealtaine Project motto:

“Plant like your life depends upon it, for it does!” ~ Bealtaine CottageThere has been some leaf drop, but overall the land is in good condition and is surviving the extreme conditions well!

As I write this I am aware of extreme rainfall and flooding in Japan.

It appears that the entire world is experiencing extreme weather.

However, what is happening is a taste of what lies ahead, for whatever we do there are consequences.

Did we not all learn that simple rule as children?

If we fail to look after, respect and maintain our home, then it will fall down around us. The earth is our home.

We have treated Mother Earth with disdainful arrogance!

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