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Plant-Based Manure for 'Greener Crops'
Reblogged from nadavu@wordpress.com: See on Scoop.it - Organic Farming DENMARK - The manure of the future does not originate from animals but from plants, according to new research. Green manure is...
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Lazy Beds.. We tried out the traditional Irish spud-growing technique
This is a post I wanted to write back in April, when we actually made the lazy-beds, but I didn’t have a blog back then, or time to turn around.. but I did take photos for a time when I did have a...
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Confessions of a mass murderer
If every living being is equal, then I am a mass murderer. The genocide I have inflicted on the various members of the slug family is truly disturbing me. In terms of single species, the vivid green...
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AD {or lack of it} in Ireland
If I had the ear of policy-makers, one of the many suggestions I would whisper..would be to look at the potential for AD to solve at least some of our problems, especially with regard to waste and...
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joke of the month
A man who’d just died is delivered to a local mortuary wearing an expensive, expertly tailored black suit. The female blonde mortician asks the deceased’s wife how she would like the body dressed. She...
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Mushie Hunting Season.. still?
Shaggy Ink Cap [this one had been knocked over, but it's usually cut clean, minimising damage to mycelium, unless you need the entire mushroom for identification purposes..]If you go down to the woods...
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Frack attack!!
Are you ready for a little perspective? Bet you thought our government couldn’t get any more incompetent, short-sighted or plain ignorant? well.. hold onto your hats.. this is going to make everything...
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mulch,mulch,mulch..
We were brimming with enthusiasm when we arrived at the farfield last Saturday. The sun was shining, the wind had died, there were green buds everywhere.. a new growing season was on the horizon. The...
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food for thought..not for the bin!
http://www.tristramstuart.co.uk/titleBlog.aspx ‘The monkey speaks his mind: … ‘That man descended from our noble race – The very idea is a big disgrace. … you will never see – A monkey build a fence...
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Hungry Fungi Workers Co-op
Good news on the mycellium we call http://www.. there is a new enterprise budding in Leeds called “Hungry Fungi”, proposing to run workshops in mushroom cultivation, produce spores and grow kits, etc.....
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Transition Year Programme Proposal
This is a rough outline of a programme I have proposed for Transition Year students in Irish schools. Basically, the idea would be to introduce the concepts and principles of permaculture to transition...
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Fat Chance-Fructose 2.0
This lecture reveals some very interesting statistics connecting sugar intake with nearly every modern disease.
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moneyless manifesto
visit this website http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org to find out more about the gift economy, alternative forms of currency, social economics and re-connecting with your local community through...
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Wheatgrass strikes again!!
http://naturalsociety.com/true-story-74-year-old-weeks-live-beats-cancer-wheatgrass/
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BACKGARDENFARMIN’– A collective of growers using empty back gardens to...
Vision: To form a co-operative of young urban farmers, “renting” back gardens within a local district, growing salad, veg and herbs for sale to local community. If you were to examine a satellite image...
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Continuous cover forestry (CCF) – alternative forest management
Reblogged from ProSilva Ireland: ProSilva Ireland is delighted to reprint an article from the Irish Farmers Journal by Donal Magner. Donal reviewed in detail the recent ProSilva Ireland and the...
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Buckminster’s Quote of the Day
“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes...
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Mr. T. Mc Kenna at his best
“You can see the thumb-prints of editors on the film of our reality, if you pay enough attention” Terence McKenna
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Jose Mujica – El Presidente de Uruguay, talks to Al Jazeera
This interview gives us an insight into the philosophy and beliefs of what must be one of the most progressive and admirable leaders of our time. What would our world look like if his counterparts...
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