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SUSTAINABILITY Small producers need space to sell

HENS’ TEETH Small producers can find it difficult to find an outlet for their produce that does not come with prohibitive rent, rates and insurance costs. Do we have to go to outer space for free space? Producing food has many hidden costs, but ...

17 May 2011 at 11:07

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SUSTAINABILITY Floods – what’s the plan?

The whole world’s in your hands Growing your own Chris Brown As the impact of global warming starts to bite deeper and we start to realise that collectively we have de-stabilised what was a beautifully balanced world, the difficulty of being ...

14 Sept 2010 at 11:04

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SUSTAINABILITY Is your harvest table Irish?

Where’s the harvest? Growing your own Chris Brown As we sit down for dinner today, it would be interesting to know what proportion of the meal was a) Home grown from the vegetable patch or allotment. b) Produced in Ireland, grown by someone ...

17 Aug 2010 at 13:51

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SUSTAINABILITY Taking the ‘self’ out of self-sufficiency

Taking the ‘self’ out of self-sufficiency Organic Living Hans Wieland I came across ‘The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency’, by John Seymour in 1975 as a student in Germany. Some of my friends had moved to the countryside and started ...

17 Aug 2010 at 13:48

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SUSTAINABILITY Why live exports cost the earth

Pig in a poke Food Matters Chris Brown Just recently my friend’s sister travelled home to Ireland for Christmas and, having had trouble with delays at the airport the previous two years, decided to take the ferry from Cherbourg to ...

06 Mar 2012 at 13:54

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Claremorris composting site first of its kind

Claremorris composting site the first of its kind in Mayo Ciara Galvin ciaragalvin@mayonews.ie Over the past four weeks, over 30 volunteers from all over the county have been training in all aspects of food-waste prevention and ...

17 Jul 2012 at 09:30

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OUTDOORS The joys of keeping sheep

The joys of keeping sheep Country sights and sounds Chris Brown I enjoy watching the sheep dog trials at the Murrisk Pattern day; it is a well-organised event held in a truly beautiful setting under the shadow of the Holy ...

22 Mar 2011 at 13:24

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NATURE Death of a harbour seal

Seal CSI Mayo Marine life John Paul Tiernan A stinking bloated corpse was the most interesting life on the beach this week. Beheaded by God knows what, the only clue to its identity was its flippers, now even more ...

22 Feb 2011 at 13:33

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SUSTAINABILITY Keep energy costs down at Christmas

Saving energy and resources at Christmas In the home Andy Wilson THIS article might also have been called ‘Preserving Sanity at Christmas’, for it and energy use are closely connected. Christmas is a religious ...

07 Dec 2010 at 17:10

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Magic mushrooms

Magic mushrooms Five-year-old Oscar Rowland, left, and nine-year-old Cian Navin-Mealey grab a hold of a giant mushroom, which they found while looking for their football near Oscar’s home in Belcarra. “The ...

03 Aug 2010 at 11:43

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ENVIRONMENT Pervasive, invasive: Japanese Knotweed

A very knotty problem Andy Wilson Top of the list of invasive plants in the West of Ireland is Japanese Knotweed. It appears to have arrived in Ireland in the late 19th century, though was relatively rare ...

03 Aug 2010 at 14:23

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GARDENING When drought grips your veg patch

Garden droughts big and small Growing your own Chris Brown Drought is the continuous absence of rain, which affects the earth and the growth of plants. Us humans, in places as opulent in resources as ...

20 Jul 2010 at 14:03

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