Monthly Archives: March 2009

Traditional farming could propel millions out of poverty

Across the developing world, times are desperate for smallholders, caught between rising food and fuel prices and a credit crunch that sees orders falling and access to loans becoming harder than ever. Yet these smallholders, too often overlooked by companies and policymakers alike, could hold the key to helping solve the food crisis and tackle poverty.

Read the full article: Traditional farming could propel millions out of poverty | Environment | guardian.co.uk.

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An Interview with cheesemaker Bill Hogan by Ivan McCutcheon

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.

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Folke Günther on ecological design,thermodynamics of living systems,ecological engineering, nutrient recycling and oil depletion

For anyone interested in sustainability Folke Gunther has a great site:

Folke Günther on ecological design,thermodynamics of living systems,ecological engineering, nutrient recycling and oil depletion.

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Watch the college on RTE Nationwide online

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!

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Square Foot Gardening on Alternative Kitchen Garden Podcast

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.

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Download the mp3 file.

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Brown Envelope Seeds: Cauliflower cheese season

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.

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