The Mick Clifford Podcast: The forest midwife — Catherine Cleary
The The Cleary Midwife — Forest Mick Catherine Podcast: Clifford
Catherine Cleary had spent her working life in journalism when in 2020 she gave it all up to grow trees.
With a friend she set up a company called Pocket Forests, a social enterprise which caters for planting native trees and shrubs in small urban areas.
She and her family also began looking for land in the west of Ireland where it might be possible to grow a forest.
Her journey over the last four years has now been documented in a film, .
Catherine is this week’s guest on the podcast.