Category Archives: Food

Apios Americana

Posted on 23 October 2011 by Graham Strouts

Just harvested the first apios americana tubers. Also known as the groundnut or potato bean this curious vegetable is a legume and shade- tolerant climber that produces strings of edible tubers up to about 2″ long: I bought my original … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Forest Gardening, Gardens | 4 Comments

GMOrganic a Love Story

Posted on 18 August 2011 by Graham Strouts

Great little video featuring Pam and Raoul in Davis California: GMOrganic: A Botanical Love Story from News21 Berkeley 2011 on Vimeo.

Posted in Food, Genetic Engineering | 13 Comments

A Taste of the Unexpected

Posted on 18 June 2011 by Graham Strouts

Book Review A Taste of the Unexpected How to grow your own remarkable fruit, vegetables, nuts, herbs, spices and flowers by Marc Diacono Hdbck 192pp Quadrille publishing 2011 Marc Diacono runs Otter Farm in Devon, “the UK’s only climate change … Continue reading →

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The Economics of Happiness

Posted on 2 February 2011 by Graham Strouts

The new film from Helena Norberg-Hodge The Economics of Happiness was premiered in UCC last night to a full house, with Helena herself arriving in time to join a panel discussion afterwards. I met Helena over 10 years ago in … Continue reading →

Posted in community, Environment, Food, Renewable Energy | 8 Comments

Meat and Grass in Permaculture

Posted on 27 December 2010 by Graham Strouts

Book Review: Meat- A Benign Extravagance Simon Fairlie Chelsea Green 2010 pbck 322pp My name is Graham, I’m 46 years old and I am a born-again carnivore. Like many of my generation, my first act of rebellion was to become … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, climate change, Food, Permaculture | 43 Comments

Mushroom Logs

Posted on 30 October 2010 by Graham Strouts

Yeah! We have fruiting Shiitake mushrooms on birch logs. Actually they are not mine, but the logs were inoculated about 2 years (!) ago by permaculture students during a field trip to John Dolan’s site near Ballingeary, West Cork. Dowels … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Forest Gardening, Permaculture | 10 Comments

Can Ireland Feed Itself?

Posted on 12 September 2010 by Graham Strouts

Interesting day yesterday spent at the taste of West Cork Food Festival in Skibbereen. Saturday’s conference was entitled “Can Ireland Feed Itself?” and included an interesting mix of speakers on a variety of (mainly) food related topics: The conference was … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Population | 8 Comments

We don’t need GE crops but Africa does

Posted on 10 September 2010 by Graham Strouts

Starved for science: How Biotechnology is being kept out of Africa Robert Paalberg Harvard University Press 2009 Pbck 235pp Harvard Professor Robert Paalberg has written a book that makes essential reading for anyone interested in global food politics and why … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, Food, Geo-politics, Science and Rationaltiy | 15 Comments

SkeptEco #3: Genetically Engineered Food

Posted on 23 June 2010 by Graham Strouts

We have had fun with this latest SkeptEco Podcast, this time addressing the contentious issue of Genetic Engineering. I attended an Earth Day conference organized by Sustainable Ireland (now Cultivate) about 10 or 12 years ago in Maynooth which brought … Continue reading →

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Announcing the New SkeptEco Podcast

Posted on 30 May 2010 by Graham Strouts

The first episode in a new podcast SkeptEco has just been launched. The SkeptEco team has chosen an old favorite for our launch: Can Organic farming Feed the World? with Eoin O’Callaghan, Naomi Fein, Christina LaPerle, Graham Strouts and Michael … Continue reading →

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