Last week I made my annual pilgrimage to the Tipperary Institute to give a 2-day course on permaculture.
This year I had students from both the B.A in Sustainable Rural Development as well as from the new BSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Management, running this year for the first time.
This year we were able to put some of the theory into practice and planted a mulched fruit and herb garden on a green verge in the car-park.
Hopefully the mini-garden will inspire more permaculture to be integrated into the extensive campus at the T.I., which, with its great facilities and land could move towards becoming an important centre of permaculture research and development.
I would love to see for example some of the land being used for trials of cultivated nut crops.
Many thanks to Pauline Ryan and Kevin Healion for organising these courses, and to the enthusiasm of the students for making the new garden a success.
