Bill Hogan is one of Ireland’s most celebrated cheese makers. He and Sean Ferry started West Cork Natural Cheese in Schull in the mid 80s and produce two large hard cheeses in the Swiss style using summer milk – Gabriel and Desmond.
Read the full interview: We Should Talk « Food Culture West Cork.
For anyone interested in sustainability Folke Gunther has a great site:
You can watch the piece on the college on Nationwide online at the RTE website.
Well done to all those interviewed – we think it came across really well!
Emma over at the Alternative Kitchen Garden has a great podcast on ‘square foot gardening’ – quite relevant for our small raised beds in the DL garden. We’ll do some planning an sowing / planting on these next week at the college.
Alternative Kitchen Garden: coopette.com: AKG085 – Square Foot Gardening.
This is Winter Roscoff cauliflower which produces curds at this time of year. Madeline McKeever has the details:
read more at: Brown Envelope Seeds: Cauliflower cheese season.
It’s on Sat 28th March 2009 and will cover a variety of activities from planning to sourcing information, seeds, compost and fertility to follow on care needed to make the home garden work and still be enjoyable.
The course starts with registration at 9.30 and continues to 4pm.
Demand for places is strong so booking is essential
Phone 063 83604 to book
Madeline at Brown Envelope Seeds has been trialling peas for ‘cut and come again’: read more on the Brown Envelope Seeds Blog.
Rob Hopkins has a nice review of this book…
The college will be featured on RTE Nationwide next week on Wednesday 18th March.
Traditional farming could propel millions out of poverty
Read the full article: Traditional farming could propel millions out of poverty | Environment | guardian.co.uk.