BBC | Food needs ‘fundamental rethink’.
A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of “new fundamentals”, according to a leading food expert.
Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing “structural failures”, such as “astronomic” environmental costs.
You can listen to all the speakers from the recent Soil Association Conference on the following page:
Annual conference | Get involved | Soil Association.
The Closing plenary session – Transition America is very good on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). A freind of mine in West Cork is in the process of setting up a CSA – the first in Ireland?
An interesting article from Organic Matters Magazine on community gardening:
Organic Matters | Therapy for the soul.
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“Other European Countries have recognised the devastating impact which these chemicals have had on the British honey bee population. The UK government should follow suit and support the EU proposals to ban these dangerous chemicals. The government should be acting to protect public safety and wildlife, not merely a small sector of the chemical industry”
Composting is one of the cornerstones of Organic Growing. We have just updated all the resources on compost in the Essential Organics course so you might like to have a look there for some comprehensive information on how to make compost.
While we’re at it we can’t resist posting this compost video song. Enjoy!
The Soil Association in the UK is officially launching its Organic Apprenticeship Scheme. Might anybody be inerested in something similar for Ireland?
Sales of herbs, fruit and vegetable plants soar by 66% in past six years
THE recession has led to long waiting lists for public allotments as rising food prices prompted increasing numbers to grow their own fruit and veg.
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Last week the college was featured on RTE’s Farmweek radio program. You can listen to the show below:
Organic Week is on it’s way. This year Bord Bia have decided to run the event earlier and it will fall between the 15th and 21st of September. This means that it will co-inside with Organic Fortnight in the UK, it also means that there will be far more opportunity for you to enjoy farm walks and seasonal produce.
FoodTalk from Newstalk – no. 5 Garden
There was a great series on Newstalk recently called Foodtalk.
Caroline Hennessy who presents the show has her own blog called Bibliocook which might be of interest.
The last one on the garden and veg was great here’s the podcast:
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