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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Biodynamics: Why Believe What Steiner said?

It is hard to know how best to respond to Judith Hoad’s article in the current edition of the IOFGA magazine Organic Matters in which she admonishes me for being “blinkered” in rejecting biodynamics, the esoteric practice of farming proposed by Rudolph Steiner, whose philosophy of anthroposophy has also lead to the creation of the [...]

Cuban Ambassador visits Cloughjordan

On Saturday 29th August the village of Cloughjordan was visited by the Cuban Amabassador, Noel Carillo Thia was the first visit of an ambassador to the village, and came about through a Cuban connection between a family member of one of the founders of the Cloughjordan Eco-village. The Ambassador had been intrigued by the eco-village [...]