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With the growing season about to take off, An tIonad Glas, The Organic College in Dromcollogher is celebrating Adult Learners Week by hosting an open afternoon with tours of the college polytunnels, gardens and information on courses. This event will

The 1st  and 2nd year students of An tIonad Glas, Organic College, Dromcollogher were delighted to visit Seed Savers this week. Greeted by Irish Seed Saver s Project Manager Lisa Duncan, the 1st year students were taken on a guided

This is the time of year for reflection and for a word of buiochas to all our friends and supporters in the local and national organic community. The past year has been eventful and full of changes, with new courses

The Organic College has been keeping bees in Dromcollogher for over twenty years and has integrated this activity into many of its courses. This year a full Nationally Certified Award in Beekeeping at Q.Q.I. Level 5 has been developed and

Christmas is almost upon us and what better way to celebrate than to support local, home-grown enterprise. The students at An t’Ionad Glas, The Organic College in Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick are putting together a vibrant Christmas Market to showcase their

Ted Cook visited the college on Tuesday and his presentation focused on the law in relation to the environment and particularly to trees, weeds and bees. Outlining the features of the country’s oldest Brehon Law Code, he explained how these

Jonathan Spazzi of Whitegate Co. Clare gave a very informative presentation on the value and significance of Mushrooms.  This was followed by a field trip to Ballinruane Woods in Kilmeedy, where a wide variety of Mushrooms were found and identified,  outstanding

We took our Beekeeping students on a tour to Andy Bourk’s Honey House today. Its the beekeeping class tasting the fruits of the year, which doubled  production of honey over last year and increased the bees stock as well. Andy

In an obscene development, a Monsanto executive is winning this year’s “Nobel Prize of agriculture” — the prestigious World Food Prize — for creating GMOs. Receiving it legitimizes the sort of rampant genetic modification Monsanto pioneered, and helps validate a

The pictures give a flavour of the magic of Limerick/Tipperary’s best kept landscape secret. Clare Glens has thankfully escaped mass tourism and was an artist’s delight on Wednesday last. The flood rich foaming Clare river, framed by the edgy sandstone