Calling all artists, sculptors, singers and dancers,actors and speakers, fire jugglers and breathers,teachers and seekers, stone and wood carvers,craftsmen and women and all kinds of performers,come one come all and join in the spraoito celebrate life with The Land of the Free…     Fheile na Saor 2011 is only four weeks away and last [...]

When the oil runs out the stores will be empty. What and how will you eat and stay healthy? By growing a forest where almost everything around you is food. Find out how here.. VISION Picture yourself in a forest where almost everything around you is food. Mature and maturing fruit and nut trees form [...]

Permaculture is derived from the words: ‘permanent’ and ‘agri-culture’ or ‘culture’. It addresses and solves the issues of petroleum based farming, using our knowledge of plants and nature to create self regulating eco-systems, designed with balance and harmony in mind with a view to maximising food production. Permaculture also addresses problems in our very society [...]

  As the industrial revolution was the New Zeitgeist 150 years ago or so, when people rushed from the land after the promise of factory work and ‘earning a living’, it may be said that self-sufficiency might become the New Zeitgeist of the early 21st century, where people rush back to the land with the [...]