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Category Archives: Forest Gardening

Practical Permaculture in Wicklow July 31st- Aug 1st

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

I will be teaching on a 2-day course in practical permaculture at Carraig Dulra, Co. Wicklow, July 31st and August 1st, with Suzie Cahn. The first day will include charcoal making (a potential business opportunity), biochar (which improves soil while also combating climate change), rocket stoves, DIY stoves, site surveying & observation techniques, basic triangulation, [...]

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Creating a Forest Garden

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Book Review: Creating a Forest Garden Working with nature to grow edible Crops by Martin Crawford Green Books Hardback 384 pp Forward by Rob Hopkins Martin Crawford, Director of the Agroforestry Research Trust in Devon, UK, has produced a beautiful and practical book which seems sure to become the definitive text for cool temperate forest [...]

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Permaculture at Kerry Earth Education

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Kerry Earth Education Project (KEEP) hosted a 2-day Introduction to Permaculture and Forest gardening course which I led for 18 participants last weekend. The course was wonderfully hosted by Niamh and Ian and Cathy of KEEP at their centre at the  Gortback Organic Farm, near Tralee, Co. Kerry. On the course we looked at Permaculture [...]

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Forest Gardening in the Irish Times

Monday, June 22, 2009

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 and adaptability will allow us to survive, and indeed thrive, in the age after oil, [...]

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