Category Archives: Food

Peak Water

Posted on 18 December 2009 by Graham

Peak Water Civilisation and the World’s Water Crisis Alexander Bell Luath Press 2009 Hardback 208 pp If oil supply peaks and begins to decline times will be hard. Standard of living will decline and people may go hungry but they … Continue reading →

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The Heretic’s Guide to vegan Cookery

Posted on 12 November 2009 by Graham

Book Review: The Heretic’s Guide to Vegan Cookery Warning! Not suitable for Breatharians Andy Murray The Good Elf Press  2009 187pp Astrology is an amazing tool to run your life by, without having to waste time with the fraudulent pseudo-scientific … Continue reading →

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The Real Dirt on Organic Food

Posted on 5 August 2009 by Graham

Update Aug 10th: Thanks to Robbie for sending me the link to Dominic Lawson’s piece on the FSA report and responses from the organic movement in the Times. Lawson quotes research suggesting farmers may have lower cancer rates possibly because … Continue reading →

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Permaculture Design Course in Cashel

Posted on 2 August 2009 by Graham

Just got back from saying goodbye to 14 new permaculture Design Course Certificate holders who completed a 9-day course in Cashel, Co. Tipperary. Above: Mayor of Cashel Cllr. Eddie Bennet (second from left) with course organiser Micheal of Aimsir Bia … Continue reading →

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Forest Gardening in the Irish Times

Posted on 22 June 2009 by Graham

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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Book Review: When Technology Fails

Posted on 5 April 2009 by Graham

When Technology Fails- A Manual for Self- Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency Matthew Stein Chelsea Green 2000, 2008 494 pp Matthew Stein’s massive survival manual When Technology Fails packs into one volume everything you need to survive “The … Continue reading →

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Forest Gardening at the ART

Posted on 29 August 2008 by Graham

I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to attend a 2-day course on Forest gardening with Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research Trust. The course was professionally delivered by Martin who has encyclopedic knowledge of his subject and … Continue reading →

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A visit to the Eden Project

Posted on 15 August 2008 by Graham

The Eden Project in Cornwall was established 7 years ago and has become a world famous visitor attraction with its iconic huge bubble-wrap domes providing the closest you’ll get to an experience of the rain-forest this side of the Amazon. … Continue reading →

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Fruit and Nuts at Derryduff

Posted on 9 August 2008 by Graham

I am off to attend a Forest Gardening course with Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research Trust in Totnes, Devon, next weekend, so I thought it would be appropriate to tell you how some of my own fruit and nut … Continue reading →

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Crash Course- Preparing for Peak Oil

Posted on 23 June 2008 by Graham

Book Review Crash Course- Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak Green Door Publishing 2008 Peak Oil is upon us, and collective action on a large scale seems unlikely. Technical solutions are chimerical. Each of us must decide what the … Continue reading →

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