Grow Your Own Garden Class
course title: grow your own garden class where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin] when: saturday 21st August 2010 time: 9.30am – 3.30pm cost: €75 – including morning tea, lunch and all materials numbers limit: minimum of 8 and 12 people max Who is it for: If you don’t wish to farm your entire garden [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 2 comments }Podcasts @ The Dot Conf
A Visit to The Dot Conf website is well worth a visit. Before I go any further…. not surprising, the dot conf conference has been a sell out for some weeks now and its waiting list only. I think its 300 people attending. [?] My good friend Darren Byrne and Phil O’Kane then did these [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { One comment }Dublin [Rose] Festival ?
Fresh from the rose festival here are my thoughts…. This is what I got from the Dublin Event Guide DUBLIN ROSE FESTIVAL – ST. ANNE’S PARK; RAHENY The Dublin City Rose Festival will be held on the 17+18 July from 10:30-18:00 in St.Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5. Apart from the horticultural aspect of the festival [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { One comment }Shawna Coronado @ bloom 2010
I had interviewed and reviewed Shawna’s book before. I knew from some time back that she was on her way to Dublin for Bloom 2010 so we had this interview lined up a long time before hand. Naturally and of course, there was an evening were a few of us met up for some refreshments [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 5 comments }Bloom 2010 – reviewed
If you did read my post on Thursday, you would have got my recommendations for Bloom In The Park 2010. And so I went along again on Sunday and Monday. The weather was cracking for most of Bloom, but the last two days meant the umbrella’s had to come out. But then, this is Ireland… [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 3 comments }Rediscover Fashion
With an estimated 93% of all textile waste in Ireland sent to landfill, rediscover fashion is a spin off – now fashion label – from Rediscover Centre Ballymun. Set up in 2007 its aim is to demonstrate the potential for textiles recycling, reuse and recovery in Ireland and also to highlight the environmental, social and [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 4 comments }Bloom 2010
As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo To all things Bloom, once again, I quote myself from last year: To only mention the gardens is, maybe, what I should be doing…. but, as a garden builder and designer at Bloom – they are all [seriously] amazing and I simply [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 7 comments }Grow Your Own Course
course title: grow your own kitchen garden where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin] when: saturday 22nd May 2010 time: 10am – 2pm cost: €60 numbers limit: 8/9 people max Details: After my talk with the GIY group and then after the last course was covered recently in the Irish Independent by Susan Daly….I don’t [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 0 comments }The GIY Rathgar Terenure Talk
I got an email in some time ago from a friend of mine. Séan wanted me to do a talk on growing your own. He is a member of a new movement call GIY – grow it yourself – that seems to be sweeping the nation. I had heard about GIY but I didn’t really [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 5 comments }Another Grow Your Own Gardening Course
NEXT CLASS: tomorrow saturday April 17th 9.30am – 3.30pm ***if you are stuck for directions to Ballyboughal and then to my house you can contact me on [vodafone prefix and then add....]6594688 I did the grow your own gardening course about 2/3 weeks ago now…. It wasn’t until I was out recently at an event [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 24 comments }The Grow Your Own Gardening Class
It was a weekend ago that I decided to do the grow your own gardening course. And whilst the weather turned good I had to wait ’til now to do my synopsis of it. How did it go…? Louise did a review under the title dirty fingernails and Jason reviewed it under the title some [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 10 comments }Gardening…. It’s Kids Stuff
You may remember I was asked to do a gardening class at the La Leche League of Ireland annual conference. On Saturday 6th March I travelled to Maynooth Co. Kildare to do just that. I know I’ll be doing a gardening course soon, but, there are some obvious major differences in the populus breakdown of [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 2 comments }A Gardening Course …?
update 13th March 2010: One space has become available… pop your name down below, email or text me if your interested Over the last weeks I’ve been researching chatting with some friends about gardening and the usual how to bits of outdoor advice. From those conversations came the suggestion that I should do a crash [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 27 comments }How Do I Know So Much About Breast Feeding …?
I must have the most varied career I have ever known. Definitely in the context of the great outdoors…. Here’s some of what I did for the year 2009. Anyhow…. Last week I got a phone call asking if I would speak at a conference. J: Hi Peter its Jenny can you talk…? P: Yeah [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 4 comments }Masamba Green Recycled Christmas Music…?
Christmas is almost here and packaging as we all well know is a definite by product. With that in mind recycling is a word that should be substituted in its place. This is what Repak have to say on the matter. As households around the country wrap their presents and stock up with extra food [...]
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