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Category Archives: Food
Apios Americana
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
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GMOrganic a Love Story
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
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A Taste of the Unexpected
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
Posted in book review, climate change, Food, Forest Gardening
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The Economics of Happiness
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
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Meat and Grass in Permaculture
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
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Mushroom Logs
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
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Can Ireland Feed Itself?
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
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We don’t need GE crops but Africa does
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
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SkeptEco #3: Genetically Engineered Food
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
Posted in Food, Podcast, Science and Rationaltiy
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Announcing the New SkeptEco Podcast
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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