A hard commercial logic dictates that the only way to get good fruit today is to grow your own. Monbiot.com » Strange Fruit
Useful Gardening Forums
Below are links to some UK and Irish forums that are good for getting advice on growing food. Do leave a comment if you know of any more good ones. Grow Your Own Kitchen Garden River Cottage SallyGarden Smallholding Garden
Global Food Crisis 2008 from Global Issues.org
Food prices have been rising for a while. In some countries this has resulted in food riots and in the case of Haiti where food prices increased by 50-100%, the Prime Minister was forced out of office. Elsewhere people have
10 reasons why mind mapping is great
10 reasons why mind mapping is great. I use Mind Mapping a lot both for planning, research and summarising. Both hand-drawn and computer-created (currently use iMindMap) are valuable.
Time to Get Growing
It’s been a long time in gestation but I’m excited to be writing the first post for ‘Get Growing‘ – a site dedicated to growing your own food. The aim is to provide inspiration and information to encourage more of
Organic Farming Can Feed the World
A great article in the New Scientist magazine shows how Organic Farming Could Feed the World better than ‘conventional agriculture’. In particular it shows how organic farming works very well in poor countries, dispelling the myth that organic food is
Job: Teacher of Sustainable Development
Part-time position, for a person with experience in global agricultural production and wider sustainability issues. Contact An tIonad Glas the Organic College Dromcollogher Co Limerick immediately. Phone 06383604 email [email protected].