Macroom Food Festival

Good Vibes at the Macroom Food Festival

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At the end of September local organisers invited me to speak at the Food Festival in my home town of Macroom in County Cork, Ireland. I was delighted to be back in the Town Hall in Macroom. I played table tennis here with the Macroom Table Tennis Club on Friday and Saturday nights for many years from the late 90s, but like many minority sports clubs in Ireland it has been dormant in recent years… anyway back to the good vibes! The Good vibes forum was part of the Macroom Food Festival and hosted stalls and talks from local sustainability and health practitioners in our local town hall. Majella O’Riordan from Dandelion Health had a stall next door so could catch up and compare notes during the day. I took several pointers from her amazing stall that I will try out next time. The speakers each only had 15 minutes Continue Permaculture Story

Permaculture Events: Macroom Food Festival and Permaculture Festival Wales 2024

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It’s busy in the vegetable garden, I’m finishing summer orchard pruning for customers across County Cork and new permaculture design projects are coming in. I’ll also be speaking at two sustainability related events over the last two weekends of September – busy time! Macroom Food Festival 21st -22nd September 2024 First up is the Food Festival in my home town of Macroom in County Cork, Ireland. I’ll have a stall with permaculture information and business leaflets and will be on a panel with other food sustainability experts at the Good Vibes forum on Saturday the 21st in the Town Hall 10am to 1pm. It’s a cool weekend and lovely to have Macroom town square busy with people enjoying themselves. https://www.macroomfoodfestival.com/ Festival of Permaculture Wales 27th – 29th September 2024 The following weekend I’ll be off to Wales to the Welsh Permaculture Gathering at Three Pools Farm near Abergavenny. I’ll be Continue Permaculture Story

Permaculture Summer Pruning & Orchard Care Course, Sat 27th July 2024

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I’m looking forward to running another pruning course this weekend! There are still some places so please get in touch if you are interested. Here are the details: Summer Orchard Pruning Workshop 2024 Orchard Summer Pruning Workshop Details Saturday 27th July 10am -16.00pmBallingeary, Co Cork Join Paul Lynch for a workshop on the theory and demonstration of orchard care from a permaculture perspective, focusing apple pruning. Here is an article introducing the subject: https://permaculturedesign.ie/orchard-pruning-cork/ Course topics: Bookings & Information To guarantee a place on the course contact paul@permaculturedesign.ie for bank transfer details and directions to the venue. Or ring 089 2553096 for enquiries. About the course leader: Paul is a professional permaculture teacher designer and orchardist based in West Cork, Ireland. Paul’s teacher bio: https://www.permaculture.org.uk/user/paul-lynch Permaculture orchard pruning – photos from previous courses Here are some photos from the 2022 summer pruning and orchard care workshop at the Ansa Permaculture Continue Permaculture Story

Magic West Cork Orchard

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I was orchard pruning recently for one of my neighbours and here are some of the photos. The trees are overly shaded to the south by some big Cupressus Leylandii trees making the situation not ideal from a fruit growing perspective but there is an absolutely magical feeling in there. The farm itself and setting is beautiful but stepping into the orchard is like like entering another world. Most of the work I did was cutting off dead dying and diseased wood (very little disease given the circumstances) and thinning and restructuring the trees to a natural shape. In some cases I kept branches that didn’t fit the future structure I was setting but were healthy with plenty of fruiting wood – they can always go later on as the replacement branches are developing. You can see in one of the photos I have splayed potential new scaffold branches from Continue Permaculture Story

The Algorithms are our Common Enemy in Pandemic Fallout.

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Do you have friends who seem to have lost their good judgment  lately? Maybe don’t judge them too harshly – it’s a stressful time, often with too much to take in, and abounding with people (some of them possibly with dubious political leanings) offering solutions to this crisis. Furthermore, because we see each other less and less, we get an even greater part of our information online, and with each of us on different media diets we are consuming different and often opposing material. We also know that the social media algorithms work to show us what they think we want to see in order to drive more media consumption (of the advertising that they rely on), so our existing views and biases get more and more re-enforced until we end up living in an echo chamber. The problem  then arises that when we do meet or even encounter each Continue Permaculture Story

Dr Ekberg

Guru Guide: Health with Dr. Ekberg

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If you have spent anytime looking on the internet for health advice it becomes apparent that there is endless information out there but unfortunately there is little agreement on just how to become healthy. Also many of the experts are specialised in one aspect or another of health and you could spending alot of time finding good advice for each of your health issues. What’s worse, the advice you receive for one complaint from one expert may conflict with that prescribed for another by another. Well it turns out that life and the human body is more like a jigsaw – if you get one part right it will inevitably help the rest of the puzzle, and help is at hand to put the whole thing back together, even it it seems quite broken. Dr Ekberg to the Rescue! Dr Ekberg is an holistic chiropractor who has studied and tested Continue Permaculture Story

The Limits of Permaculture

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You can fix all the worlds problems in a garden – Geoff Lawton To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail – Emerson Garden You can fix all the worlds problems in a garden, you can solve ’em all in a garden. You can solve all your pollution problems and all your supply line needs in a garden… and most people actually today actually don’t know that and that makes most people very insecure – Permaculture designer Geoff Lawton from “Greening the Desert“ Lawton’s statement was made while narrating a video showing how permaculture design and implementation was rehabilitating a patch of desert and growing fruit – an amazing achievement. For millions of people – more so in the western consumer countries – permaculture design and ethics are a revelation and Lawton’s statement rings true. Where we are masters of our own destiny much of what is Continue Permaculture Story

Can Ireland feed itself? Options for greater food security in a climate changed world.

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Study review by Paul Lynch A new study by Andi Wilson of the Sustainability Institute in Mayo on food security and climate change has concluded that Ireland may currently be only producing a quarter the human food consumed domestically. Click here for study. Agriculture In this broad-ranging study and preliminary action plan Andi Wilson examines the consequences of continued global warming & climate change for Irish food security. The study finds that a restructuring and reorientation of Irish agriculture away from export driven beef and dairy towards domestic self-sufficiency in a plant based diet could meet over 100% of our protein and calorific requirements and massively decrease green-house gas emissions. In Ireland agriculture currently produces one third of the gasses emitted nationally that cause global warming, which is more than both the residential and transport sectors combined. Indeed the study finds that such a shift would turn agriculture into a Continue Permaculture Story