interviews

An Irish Nature Year - Jane Powers

An Irish Nature Year - Jane Powers

19/11/2020

As you may know from last week's communication I have been having a very enjoyable time reading Jane Powers' new book 'An Irish Nature Year'. The book is a compi...

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19/11/2020

Gaby Wieland on Wheatgrass

Gaby Wieland on Wheatgrass

21/10/2014

Researching the benefits of drinking wheatgrass juice has to be one of the most challenging tasks as opinions vary wildly from one side to the other. The problem...

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21/10/2014

Letters to a Beekeeper

Letters to a Beekeeper

13/10/2013

As I've mentioned in my bee article I have accidentally ended up with a hive of bees. This is all fine and well but clearly I need to learn a lot more about t...

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13/10/2013

Charles Dowding's Garden

Charles Dowding's Garden

30/07/2013

If you read any of the guff I write you will probably have heard me mention Charles Dowding before. He's a bit of a hero of mine basically because his book 'Orga...

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30/07/2013

Tips on Keeping Chickens, with Fiona Dillon

Tips on Keeping Chickens, with Fiona Dillon

15/03/2013

Fiona Dillon is, amongst many other things, an expert poultry keeper so I thought I'd give her a call to get the '123' for any first timers (or those int...

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15/03/2013

West Cork Garlic Farm

West Cork Garlic Farm

29/01/2013

West Cork Garlic is a new enterprise which has undertaken the risky business of growing garlic commercially in the Irish climate.Axel and Marye Miret of Enniskea...

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29/01/2013

Cows aren’t the problem, Agriculture is!

Cows aren’t the problem, Agriculture is!

18/01/2013

I posted an 'info graphic' (which I did myself) on facebook the other day illustrating that an acre of land could support 20 families in vegetables but just t...

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18/01/2013

Irish potato varieties

Irish potato varieties

14/01/2013

I had the pleasure of a few very sweet pints of the black stuff with vegetable gardening genius Dermot Carey the other night. Growing food runs deep in Dermot's...

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14/01/2013

An interview with Fionnuala Fallon.

An interview with Fionnuala Fallon.

15/10/2012

I was pleased to bump into writer and journalist Fionnuala Fallon recently as I wanted to compliment her on her new book 'From the Ground Up'. I'm a sucker for g...

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15/10/2012

Organic Gardening with Klaus Laitenberger

Organic Gardening with Klaus Laitenberger

18/07/2012

Klaus Laitenberger is the man behind'Green Seed Company' which is a select range of vegetable seeds picked for vigour, disease resistance and flavour. Klaus has...

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18/07/2012

Holly Somerville. Botanical Artist

Holly Somerville. Botanical Artist

16/04/2012

I must confess to be a bit of a frustrated artist myself, in fact my past career involved slopping paint around the canvas but sadly I can't seem to find the tim...

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16/04/2012

A drop of Powers: an interview with Jane Powers

A drop of Powers: an interview with Jane Powers

07/12/2011

I had always read Jane Powers' Irish Times articles with interest so I was quite excited when I answered the phone one day and found herself on the other end....

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07/12/2011