Rob Hopkins has a nice review of this book… via Classic Book Review: How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible (etc. etc.) » Transition Culture.
RTE Nationwide – Wednesday 18th
The college will be featured on RTE Nationwide next week on Wednesday 18th March.
Vegetable Seeds – Roguelands Seed Company
Thanks for Alison for the link to this heirloom seed supplier based in Oregon US but with UK website priced in sterling…. Vegetable Seeds – Roguelands Seed Company.
Heavy gardening counts as good exercise!
We knew this anyway… but you can cancel that gym membership and get digging… read the full article at: Middle age ‘key for exercising’.
Seed capital – The Irish Times – Sat, Jan 31, 2009
This year’s catalogues, with their shiny images of flawless plants, will keep you sowing and growing for another season WITH TWO CONSECUTIVE non-summers piled up in a sodden mess behind us, part of me feels like giving up gardening. But
Imbolc – beeswax candle
A beeswax candle we lit at Imbolc:
How an accident of geography could power wind project
In Ireland the wind blows stronger at night thanks to the weather systems blowing off the Atlantic ocean from the Gulf stream — just when demand for wind power is lowest. It means much of this potentially cheap and abundant
Payment for home-produced electricity given warm welcome
THERE was warm welcome for the announcement by Energy Minister Eamon Ryan that householders and farmers will be paid by the Electricity Supply Board for any surplus electricity that they generate from wind turbines, photovoltaic panels or other alternative energy
Global Issues on Global Financial Crisis
The excellent Global Issues website has a long article on the financial crisis. Here’s a summary: This update includes notes and a chart on how much the global financial crisis has cost, in context. For example, plummeting stock markets have
How to Plant Your Garden
A lovely email (in pictures) I received from Danny last year: