Promoting The Horticultural Industry ?
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{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { One comment }The Great Outdoors Weekend Podcast
As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? Got a note from bernie over the weekend: That’s our boy @donegangardens easily cresting above yer man Ray Foley. Seems the podcast hit number 2 in the [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { One comment }Teaching Organic ?
An organic gardening programme is set to be rolled out by Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board across Irish schools. The problem is that it can’t really be organic. It can however be about growing and considering the earth and our actions. This is a programme that will include my child and yours and I [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 14 comments }Donegan Wins Landscape Quality Award For 2010
February 26th 2010. Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd has achieved the Bord Bia Quality Award. The assessment for this award is through a stringently audited programme that was designed to raise standards within the landscape industry and increase customer confidence by rewarding companies who operate an awarded quality system through best practice and at the highest [...]
{ all posts, office } { 10 comments }national organic awards & week
with all this talk of the FSA reports, Richard Corrigan talking about putting peoples heads in deep fat fryers – funny thing is its all just a big mix up still, nice while the press and pr train rolled once again That said Richard also dislikes Bord Bia who once again will run national organic [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 0 comments }organic non organic is better for you ….?
There was at one point in the past rumours that ‘dirty’ vegetables sold better than clean ones. Not necessarily ‘better grown’ – just dirty. There was also a point where unwashed vegetables were sold cheaper than washed. But I remember 15 years ago in college and walking the vegetable house grading floors…. the white ended [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 12 comments }bord bia invests €1m irish export market
First up a quick peek at the market place. Here’s the stats: Ireland’s agri-food sector plays an important role in the Irish economy, accounting for almost 9% of employment and 10% of Irish exports. As much as 65% of manufacturing exports by Irish-owned firms are estimated to consist of food and drink. The UK is [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 0 comments }the bloom in the park ’09 experience
The sun is splitting the skies, the Phoenix Park looks spectacluar…. you simply can’t imagine what a show Bloom in the Park has turned out to be. 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 [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 6 comments }how to bloom in the park 2009
**bloom in the park 2009 – to read my review – click here Show times and dates: thursday 28th May 11am – 6pm friday 29th May 10am – 6pm saturday 30th May 10am – 6pm sunday 31st May 10am – 6pm monday 1st June 10am – 6pm Recommended to do and see: 27 show gardens [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 2 comments }behind the scenes of a bloom show garden
related posts: my bloom in the park ’09 reviewed how to bloom in the park show gardening – behind the scenes looking back on bloom 2008 looking back on bloom 2007 The slogan that runs under the bloom logo is ‘celebrate garden life’. This year more than ever I hope we as a nation do [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { One comment }dear richard corrigan and rte…
I really feel so angry with RTE over this…. and Richard Corrigan even after all you have done so far. This time you are Sir a bufoon. I watched your programme last night where an axe [or a hatchet] was use to kill a chicken…. [chop off its head on a timber block] I also [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 9 comments }[show] garden s.o.s.
This is Rebecca Thorne. She is building a garden in Bloom in the Phoenix Park this June Bank Holiday weekend. Rebecca emailed me some weeks ago. Words of wisdom [hmmm?] were requested. A pot of tea, some apple tart and a drive to Ballyboughal later… Today I went to The war Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge. [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { One comment }richard corrigan – the aftermath …?
It’s funny, in a way, but throughout the reporting of this issue, how various people have reacted. It seems…[?] Richard backed down and re-worded and rephrased. Bord Bia [I must say] and Aidan Cotter in particular conducted themselves in an exemplary manner. And here I have added some other press statements. Side stepping slightly, I [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 0 comments }gm food? de burca? …the green party?
Very recently I had to take this from the green party & also Deidre de Burca – click here. More recently The Green Party did something similar again – click here except this time they insulted Bill Cullen. On a seperate note: Richard Corrrigans story, well, was extremely confusing to say the least – click [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 0 comments }richard corrigan [for the] silly farm… ?
Richard Corrigan called a press conference today. All of the media who were invited to Richards restaurant were asked to sign a waiver as it was to be recorded for his television programme….. Corrigans city silly farm In a flawed variation of Jamie Olivers School Dinners taking on the Prime Minister, Corrigan has decided to [...]
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