Farm Visit, Pilltown, Saturday 20th March, 2-4pm Michael Micklis will hold an open day at his organic farm in Pilltown on Saturday 20th March to mark the spring equinox and to outline his ideas for Community Supported Farms (CSAs) in Kilkenny. The idea of a CSA is that a number of families contribute at the […]
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As part of the 400 Fruit Tree project Michael Micklis of the Biodynamic Agricultural Association will run a short tutorial on how to prune fruit trees. This tutorial is primarily for those involved in the project or who have received an orchard but if you are interested please get in touch to book a place. […]
FOUR PART COURSE IN GROWING YOUR OWN ORGANIC FRUIT AND VEGETABLES ————————————————————————————— STARTS Wednesday 27th January 2010 7.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. [two hours per week for four weeks]. VENUE Heritage Council, Áras na hOidhreachta, Church Lane, Kilkenny. COURSE IS AIMED AT First-time growers | Experienced growers | Time-constrained gardening enthusiasts | People with low […]
This month’s cold snap has brought the fragility of our oil dependent food supply into sharp focus. This article in the Guardian last Friday reported how food is trucked daily from farms to a handful of processing centres before being trucked back out to the supermarkets. For example 80% of carrots pass through just 10 […]
27th December, Ossory Youth Hall, New Street, 7:30pm It is a well known fact that reducing our consumption of meat is one of the easiest ways to lighten our demands on the planet. Meat productions requires far more energy, water and food (grain) than growing an equivalent amount of vegetables. On 27th December the Kilkenny […]