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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Reading the Great Book of Life

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Book Review: The Living Landscape: How to Read and Understand it Patrick Whitefield Permanent Publications 2009 334pp 48 color photos When I first saw in the recent Permaculture Magazine that Patrick Whitefield had written a book on reading the landscape I became very excited and thought, “That’s probably a book David Holmgren would have liked [...]

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Dont Sweat the Hard Stuff

Thursday, October 22, 2009

My eye was caught this morning by a story in the Grauniad recounting the death of three people after a new Age sweat lodge in northern Arizona: According to local police, at 3pm on Thursday 8 October – the final day of the retreat, and following a buffet meal to break their fast – more [...]

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Tom Wagner brings the Lumper back to Ireland

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Washington State plant breeder Tom Wagner of Tater-Mater visited Brown Envelope Seeds last weekend near Skibbereen to give a two-day workshop on breeding new varieties of tomatoes and potatoes. This was a fascinating experience, and a great opportunity to learn some of the man’s great art. Tom has been breeding thousands of varieties of these [...]

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Five Years On: Oil Price Sweepstake

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Tom has just blogged here about a sweepstake he initiated five years ago with myself, Rob Hopkins, Tom’s partner Ruth and a couple of other friends. We each made a prediction on what we thought the price of oil would be  in five years time. My first thought when Tom told me the five years [...]

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