John also has a stall at Joe Paul's market in Ballyloskey, Carndonagh from 1 - 5 pm every Saturday
John will have a stall at the cattle show this year. He will be selling tools, slug pellets etc and of course will have his usual amount of goodgrowing advice on standby. See you there!
John also has a stall at Joe Paul's market in Ballyloskey, Carndonagh from 1 - 5 pm every Saturday
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The next meeting of the Inishowen Organics Group will be next Thursday 29 April 2010 at 8pm in McClure’s bar, Bridge Street, Carndonagh.
Bev Doherty will be giving a talk on Community Gardens and showing a video. All welcome. Patrick McCartney is holding an OPEN GARDEN WEEKEND at his home in Greencastle, on Saturday & Sunday 8th & 9th of May.
Over the two days there will be talks by the Foyle Beekeepers Group and the Irish Seedsavers Association , Demos of basketmaking and gardening, teas will be served and there will be stalls selling plants and gardening equipment. Proceeds from the two day event go to Harvest Help and the Irish Seedsavers Association. Admission is €5 for Adults, children go free. A meeting will be held in the Community Centre, Carrowmenagh on Friday, April 23rd to discuss the proposed granting of prospecting licences to the Grosvenor mining company in respect of 88 townlands in Inishowen.
The meeting starts at 8.30 and guest speaker will be Mike Doherty, Glentogher. All are welcome. The community group Transition Inishowen is hosting an interesting morning on solar power in the home on Sat 27th March at 11am in the IDP office Carndonagh.
Find out from Cye Bannon from Belfast about the practicalities and the costs of installing your own ways of generating loads of "free" hot water - yes even in this climate! If you'd like to stay for the afternoon event, please join us for some homemade soup and delicious homebaked malthouse bread. The day continues at 2pm with a screening of the hour long "In Transition" movie with excellent footage from many of the Transition groups around the world on how to live more simply, sustainably and cheaply, as a response to climate change and the upcoming "peak oil" crunch. Those of you who attended any of the Gatherings in the past will remember how magical they were. The main 3 day event didn't go ahead last year due to a lack of committed volunteers. Over the past year, many people have expressed an interest in helping to organise the event if it happened again. Well, now's your chance!
The Gathering group would love to hear your opinions, ideas and, of course, any offers of committed help. The AGM takes place on March 10th, Wed, in the IRDL offices, Pound st, Carndonagh at 8pm. Everyone is welcome to attend, or, if you can't make it to the meeting, you can contact Therese (chairperson) [email protected] with your comments, ideas and offers of help. Greenhill Farm is pleased to announce that this year's seed potatoes arrived last Tuesday. Also wheatgrass, seaweed liquid, green manures and a few other bits and pieces which have been ordered over the last few months.
If you already placed an order, please collect as soon as you can. A good selection of seed is available in small or large quantities, just call with your order 087 9650522 or reply to this email. Composts and other products are due to arrive shortly. Don’t forget that you can get your Chillington and oscillating hoes, rakes, hooks and other tools here now as well! Please note also that we have reverted to our old website address, http://greenhill.weebly.com (well, I guess, now that you're here, you already know...) Charlie Williams of CARC (Citizens Against Recycling Charges) has sent me the following press release. Please read and, if possible, come to the meeting
CARC - Public meeting 5th October 2009 To Whom it May Concern As the spokesperson of CARC (Citizens Against Recycling Charges), I am pleased to invite you to our first public meeting at the Inishowen Development Board offices, Pound Street Business Park, Carndonagh on Monday October 5th at 8:30 PM. Recycling is the only way to reduce landfills, illegal fly tipping, backyard burning of garbage and also carbon emmissions. Before charges were introduced at the Carndonagh Recycling Centre the facility was widely accepted by local people used properly and diligently. Since the introduction of charges for most of the goods returned the service is hardly being used anymore. Unfortunately people are choosing to burn their garbage again or even dump it in our environment. The results of this are already fatal, as we could see – not only in several press reports. 58 % of the Carndonagh people and more than 3,000 citizens from other parts of the Inishowen peninsula have signed a petition to "keep all recycling brought to Carndonagh Recycling Centre free of charge". We would like to discuss with you the urgency of free recycling. I hope you will find the time and come to this meeting. Please RSVP to Charlie Williams, 62 Ard Colgan, Carndonagh or call 086 1934677. With kind regards, Charlie Williams The Inishowen Organic Group meeting will take place in McClure's bar, Bridge St. Carn on Thurs Sept 28th at 8pm.
Everyone is welcome, there's no membership and it's a great way to meet like minded people in the area. If you have any ideas for future speakers or even want to promote your own ideas to the group, feel free to join in, either at a meeting or on the website forum, which is also open to everyone. So go on, join in, iog.weebly.com is waiting for your input! A lot of people are asking what they can do with their veg plots overwinter, now that the summer crops have been removed. The fact that we live so far north means that we don't have enough light to grow very much over the winter months, especially outside, because the elements can change so quickly that the plants have a hard time keeping up with the changes - one minute it's warm & sunny, the next it could be a force 9 gale. So, unless your plot is really sheltered, the best thing you can do is sow a green manure. This will grow well over the winter, the rye grass will anchor the soil, preventing it from being washed away by winter rain, and the legumes in the mix will take nitrogen from the atmosphere and store it in the roots, and it will provide organic matter and nutrients for the new plants after it's been dug back in in Spring. It will also stop your plot being over run with weeds, which, oddly enough, seem to like growing in winter.
There are a few things you can plant, though, as long as you have adequate shelter. It might be worth putting up a windbreak against the worst of the weather if you want to sow broad beans (superaquildouce is most likely to grow here in winter, make sure they're well staked up!) york plants can be grown on for a crop in early spring, spinach can be overwintered, and winter onion sets ( radar) can be planted. We'll be placing an order for these soon, so give us a shout if you want to order. Winter purslane, chicory, early carrot varieties, o/w scallions can be sown under cover now, also peas, winter lettuce varieties and e You can contact us by leaving a comment here, or email [email protected] |