The Sodcast – Episode 5
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe or/ and listen to the podcast via iTunes. Alternatively you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed Episode 4 of the garden podcast ? First Up: thanks for listening…. On The Blog This Week: boyle, co. roscommon Boyle Pleasure [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { 0 comments }Boyle, Co. Roscommon
St Patrick’s visit to the town in the year 435 was the first definite recording of Boyle’s existance. On this visit St Patrick noticed that there was very poor accommodation for travellers and he suggested to St Attracta, the abbess of Kilaraught, that she should provide a hostel. This she did and the town grew [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 0 comments }Boyle Abbey, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Take a listen…. Whilst I was in Boyle, Boyle Abbey was on my must do list of places to go. The reason is quite simple. This time next year the full restoration of the abbey will have taken place and I don’t want to be looking at pictures of the great work the OPW did [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { One comment }Lough Key Forest
This actually comes under the [web] title of Lough Key Forest and Activity Park. Which includes a lot under its banner. I chose to go camping there for 4 days and try and experience as much as possible within the beautiful town of Boyle in Co. Roscommon. That’ll come later on the weblog. Lough Key [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 2 comments }The Sodcast – Episode 4
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe or/ and listen to the podcast via iTunes. Alternatively you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed Episode 3 of the garden podcast ? On The Garden Blog This Week: robinia pseudoacacia frisia the perfect clients garden Images for [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { One comment }Robinia Pseudoacacia Frisia
I had an email in today reminding me that October was just around the corner…. And it is. With that comes tree planing season. That said, this photo was taken last week and there is great potential for me to end on an entirely different subject-ish My idea here is just to get you thinking of [...]
{ all posts, plants } { One comment }The Sodcast – Episode 3
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe or/ and listen to the podcast via iTunes. Alternatively you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed Episode 2 of the garden podcast ? On The Garden Blog This Week: The [Un]usual planter Bird Boxes Strawberry Plant Babies [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { One comment }The Sodcast – Episode 2
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes. Alternatively you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? First Up: This week the sodcast podcast was accepted by iTunes. Find the sodcast on iTunes here. If you [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { One comment }The Sodcast – Episode 1
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, or else you can simply subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? Thank You: Remember Luke Donegan. No relation. Seriously! He did the Garden Group Weblog Logo ? Luke made [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { 3 comments }A Sound Weekend
More a weekend of sound…. see what you think ? Friday evening – pitch and putt club annual outing Ended up in playing guitar in the resulting trad session Saturday, I met Ger who was checking the mosture in barley After I dropped into Philip who makes elder flower champagne Sunday morning, listening to the [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 comments }Garden Gallery
There are many gardens I have created and designed over the last, almost 10 years now. These are just some of the images that may help in giving you and idea of just what kind of possibilities exist with your great outdoors. NB: As a by the way…. if you wish to enlarge the images [...]
{ all posts, services } { 4 comments }Beautiful Cow Competition
Saturday 10th July saw the North Dublin Dairy show 2010 get under way. The highlight is of course, what can only be described as the beautiful cow competition. I met with 22 year old farmer Michael Connell Jnr to find out more. Earlier, I had met Jim Scully, secretary of The Dublin Milk Producers. Listening [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { One comment }Irish Milk ?
Irish farmers at present get just under 29 cents per litre of milk. Astonishingly, around 25% of all milk consumed in south of Ireland is imported. Consider also that there used to be 40 milk producers in Dublin and that there are now just 19. I personally am becoming quite concerned that the milk my [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 comments }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 [...]
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