This month we will be exploring the oak tree as we enter the seventh moon of the Ogham Tree Calendar. Oak, or Duir, is traditionally revered as the ‘King of the Woods’. It is prevalent throughout Ireland and the British Isles and makes up part of the ‘Sacred Triad’ of Oak, Ash and Thorn and Irish ‘Seven Noble Trees’. …
This year with more and more people embracing the no-mow wild garden and other eco-friendly tips and tricks, we decided to share our favourite functional repurposed items that have been saved from landfill to breathe a new lease of life into the garden. 1. The Calf Feeder PlanterPractical, pretty and fit-for-purpose. This old calf feeder/ …
The annual gathering of small farmers, seed savers, cooperatives, community food advocates and anyone with an interest in good food, good farming and rural revitalisation. This year Feeding Ourselves will be held online with the first session on Thursday evening exploring the context and theme of ‘Practicing Food Sovereignty’. In the second session on Friday …
These training sessions will build your capacity in establishing, maintaining and managing a local market on the OFN user-owned platform. The sessions are free and offered by the Open Food Hub at Cloughjordan Community Farm, in partnership with OFN Ireland and OFN Global with support from Rethink Ireland. Book for all sessions or individually with …
The Cloughjordan Community Farm has been funded by Rethink Ireland to provide training and mentoring to emerging food hubs across Ireland who are using, or planning to use the OFN platform. A ‘hub‘ on the user-owned platform is an Online Market that distributes items from more than one supplier. It is the equivalent of a physical …
In 2012, in Melbourne, Australia, Kirsten Larsen and Serenity Hill started the Open Food Network. From the start, they really made it *open*. By working and sharing knowledge in public forums and by creating a platform with open-source code that is publicly available for anyone to use, copy or modify, they laid the foundations for …
Once again, we explore the thirteen month Ogham (oh-am) Tree Calendar to see what unique wisdom this month’s tree has to offer us on our life journey. In April, we celebrate the Alder tree as we enter the fourth moon of the Ogham calendar, ruled by Fearn (pronounced verern). Alder, the magical tree of Bran, King of the Celts, can …
The global food system we rely on has a high social and environmental cost and very questionable ethics. Most of us eat unconsciously, completely unaware of where, and how our food is produced. The dominance in our diets of food that is highly processed and dependent on very long supply-chains contributes to an increase in …
We thought it would be fun to explore the Ogham (oh-am) Tree Calendar in our newsletters. The tree calendar has thirteen months. Each month offers its own unique wisdom to us as we make our way through this life trying to live lightly, kindly and communally. In March, we celebrate the Ash tree as we enter …
We thought it would be fun to explore the Ogham (oh-am) Tree Calendar in our newsletters. The tree calendar has thirteen months. Each month offers its own unique wisdom to us as we make our way through this life trying to live lightly, kindly and communally. In February, we celebrate the Rowan tree as we …