Portumna

The Wild Geese Chapter, Grow Remote, hosted a meet-up at Portumna Forest Park, with picnic lunch and walking tour of Portumna Forest Park by guided by eco tour guide Andrea Lippert, on Saturday 23rd October at 1pm.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Remote workers lives are so often ruled by an avalanche of information, looking at screens, going from one appointment to the next.&nbsp;
While they are concerned about their jobs, their health, money, they tend to forget how to slow down, how to be more aware of their surroundings and more importantly to connect.
This was an opportunity for our community remote workers to discover other fellow remote, share experiences and challenges.
<h2>Introductions</h2>
The event kicked off with introductions and forest picnic lunch catered for by the wonderful Lexis Hampers and Catering. Once relaxed and acquainted, the intrepid group set out with Andrea to explore the Forest.

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Andrea Lippert, the founder of Andaire, offers a special range of eco tours. She is also an artist, Qigong, Tai Chi and meditation practitioner with many years experience in life coaching.

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<h2>Portumna Forest Park Tour</h2>

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It is hard to imagine, Ireland was once covered with trees, a squirrel could travel from Cork to Donegal without ever touching the ground, jumping from tree to tree. Only little is left today and maybe that makes our woodlands extra special.
After the picnic lunch, some of the group who wished to participate in the forest tour, guided by Andrea and becoming aware of the amazing connection between flora and fauna of the forest, becoming aware of these magnificent trees often much older than we are, and learning more about their ecosystem.

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Portumna Forest Park is a wonderful area to explore the world of forest and lake. Andrea guided the group through this wonderful habitat while sharing her immense knowledge about trees.&nbsp;
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<li>Which trees here are native to Ireland?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What are their special features?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What is the connection to the Celtic Tree Calendar and Ogham writing?</li>
<li>Did you know? we all have a birth tree and you can learn more here:&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
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From Grimm’s fairy tales to the great Irish legends, stories are what bind it all together, nature and people and our connection to the land.&nbsp;

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Being out and about in the woods, chatting about our experiences and ideas, observing nature is a wonderful thing to do. Looking at trees it is surely easy forget your worries and breathe easy.&nbsp;

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<h2>About <a href="https://growremote.ie/" target="_self">Grow Remote</a>&nbsp;</h2>
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<a href="https://growremote.ie/" target="_blank">Grow Remote</a> have a big ambition to change how employment spreads across Ireland.
Grow Remote connects remote workers, companies, and local communities so that people can choose to work where they want to live, and not vice versa.
Through events and an ever increasing network of local ‘Chapters’, bypasses traditional methods for creating employment opportunities in rural areas by equipping community leaders with the necessary tools and resources required to build a remote working ecosystem and connection between remote jobs, at a national and international stage, remote workers and local communities at local level.
This solution was developed by a group of community developers from across Ireland who were trying to understand the best way to bridge the gap between remote work and local impact in order to make rural communities more viable, sustainable and vibrant moving forward.
It operates as a ‘Meitheal’ - the old way of working in rural Ireland where everyone in a local area chips in with part of the solution to help support the economic and social revolution of Irish villages and rural towns through remote working.
<a href="https://growremote.ie/get-started/" target="_self">How to Start</a>
<a href="https://growremote.ie/employer-partnership-programme/" target="_self">Employers Partnership Programme </a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://growremote.ie/irish-remote-jobs-board/" target="_blank">Remote Jobs Board</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://growremote.ie/employer-partnership-programme/" target="_blank">Training Programmes</a>&nbsp;

Remote Workers meetup at Portumna Forest Park

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