Today’s industrial food system is highly vulnerable to peak oil and a major contributor to global warming. In addition, what we eat, how it is produced and where it comes from causes enormous damage to the environment and to communities around the world. Ironically, changes to our food systems are the quickest way to lower […]
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Thursday 26th November, 7pm, Butler House, Patrick St., Kilkenny The County Kilkenny LEADER group are hosting a meeting on Thursday next in Butler House at 7pm on Communty gardens & Allotments. The purpose of the meeting is to: Share information on the various community garden/allotment projects presently existing in Kilkenny Form a working group to […]
In late October 09 a group of people interested in setting up allotments in Kilkenny visited the Clonmel Allotments Association and the Aimsir Bia Allotments in Cashel. Both sites have been up and running for around a year now and the progress made in that time to turn grass fields into vegetable growing plots is […]
To coincide with Clonmel Transition Town’s “Feeding Clonmel” event this weekend and as a follow-up to our own “Sound Bites and Food for Thought” learning lunch, I have posted this lecture on food security given by Bruce Darrel of Feasta at the New Emergency conference earlier this year. Bruce began with an observation that given […]
Clonmel Transition Town are holding a seminar this coming Saturday 7th November called “Feeding Clonmel”. It runs from 10am to 1pm at St. Peter & Pauls school hall and begins with a keynote address by Dr. Colin Sage of UCC. I heard Colin speak at last year’s Terra Madre conference where he gave an excellent […]