Monthly Archives: June 2009

The Transition Timeline

Book Review: The Transition Timeline for  a local, resilient future Shaun Chamberlin Forward by Rob Hopkins 190 pp pbk Chelsea Green 2009 The follow-up to Rob Hopkins’ seminal The Transition Handbook uses the method of “backcasting” from an envisioned  future … Continue reading

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Forest Gardening in the Irish Times

We were fortunate enough to have Irish Times columnist John Gibbons attend our last permaculture course in Cloughjordan, and he had a great write up in his column last week: Permaculture offers one vision of a future where human ingenuity … Continue reading

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Solstice Solar Array

I just wired up a new photovoltaic array- an auspicious time to do it on the longest- and so far the sunniest- day of the year. Delivering a cool 600 watts of raw solar power at 24volts, the impressive bank … Continue reading

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Permaculture Mandala garden at Dunhill Eco-Park

I returned to the Dunhill Eco-Park in Waterford at the weekend for a follow-up to the permaculture course I did there last September. This time we were joined by 20 participants who learned about permaculture gardening techniques and forest garden … Continue reading

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Future Scenarios

Book Review- Future Scenarios How Communities Can adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change David Holmgren Chelsea Green 2009 When I first saw David Holmgren’s Future Scenarios talk and slide at a permaculture design course in Slovenia in 2005 I … Continue reading

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Permaculture at The Village

Last weekend saw 17 participants attend a 2-day Introduction to permaculture course I gave at The Village in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary. Workshop participants practice forest garden design… …now they are planting and mulching for real… It was a great weekend, … Continue reading

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Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter from measles

As the measles epidemic in Britain gathers pace, and the woo-woos who still do not acknowledge that their refuasal to vaccinate is not because of some higher spiritual knowledge, but simply ignorance brought about by bad science and an irresponsible … Continue reading

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Bamboo shoots for tea

Recent comments on last years’ post on eating bamboo shoots came just as the new season is here- and we have been munching our way through this very useful vegetable with gusto.        Martin Crawford demonstrates harvesting bamboo shoots on … Continue reading

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Birthing Yurt

Here are a couple of photos of a new yurt I made and set up for for Cearbhuil up near mallow- who got it to have her new baby in in a few weeks time! Hope it all goes really … Continue reading

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