I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to attend a 2-day course on Forest gardening with Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research Trust. The course was professionally delivered by Martin who has encyclopedic knowledge of his subject and was a fantastic experience, re-inspiring my own attempts and forest gardening and showing me some [...]
Courses for 2008 Coming up in the next couple of months…. Weekend Introduction to Permaculture Courses with Graham September 6th-7th Kildare Steiner School contact: Kate Park katepark1@eircom.net 27th-28th September Dunhill Eco-Park, Ballyphilip, Co. Waterford Saturday 27th September 10am – 5pm and Sunday 28th September 11am – 4pm Slow food lunch included with tea / coffee [...]
The Eden Project in Cornwall was established 7 years ago and has become a world famous visitor attraction with its iconic huge bubble-wrap domes providing the closest you’ll get to an experience of the rain-forest this side of the Amazon. I was visiting my sister this week, who lives nearby in Bodmin, and got the [...]
I will be teaching a second introduction to permaculture course at the Kildare Steiner School, near Castledermot, September 6th-7th. This is a result of the tremendous interest shown in practical courses held at the school since my first permacultre course there in June, and the hard work of Kate Park of Transition Town Newbridge in [...]
Climate Code Red The Case for Emergency Action David Spratt and Philip Sutton Scribe Publications 2008 Spratt and Sutton have written an important book that looks at the current state of climate science, compares the projections for likely catastrophic and irreversible climate change to the policy measures and government reactions so far, and finds the [...]
I am off to attend a Forest Gardening course with Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research Trust in Totnes, Devon, next weekend, so I thought it would be appropriate to tell you how some of my own fruit and nut trees are doing, seven years after moving to Derryduff. Of greatest excitement, I have a [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The summer break from Kinsale College has givien me some time to spend on the site at Derryduff and I have been developing the gardens and landscaping here over the last couple of months. In particular, a large extension to the small pond has now been created, with multiple potential uses: -swimming hole- glorious to [...]
In her recent comment on the last post, Alanna Moore, Geomancer, Dowser and Animist Pagan, has confessed that her beliefs are religious in nature and therefore have no scientific credibility: “Could you kindly remove all references to me plus my contact details from your blog. You are infringing my privacy as well as my religious [...]