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Garden Design Talk for the Kenmare Gardening Group

25/06/202525/06/2025 Paul LynchLeave a commentCourses and Workshopsdesign, gardening, group, kenmare, kerry, keyline, permaculture, sustainability, vegetable growing

Sustainable landscape design solutions for gardening and climate problems Earlier this month I was delighted to give a presentation on permaculture design to the Kenmare gardening group at the Gateway Methodist Church in Kenmare Co. Kerry. The church setting was fitting as I had some biblical analogies regarding creation, gardens, fruit, floods and sustainable landscape design. I put extensive research into this lecture and went as far as to write a whole article on my preparatory thoughts, partly as an exercise in putting my thoughts in order and partly to give an insight to my readers on this process. You can read this article here: https://permaculturedesign.ie/2025/05/30/sustainability-talks-for-local-groups/ In particular that article focuses on “design” as a cleavage term in society. When we hear that word, some people envisage a something pleasing to look at or behold in an aesthetic sense, while others think of something being “well designed” when it functions Continue Permaculture Story

Sustainability Talks for Local Groups in Ireland

30/05/202502/06/2025 Paul Lynch1 CommentCourses and Workshopscourse, creativity, design, gardening club, ireland, kenmare, kerry, lecture, permaculture, pirsig, robert pirsig, sustainability, talk, workshop, zen, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

In my permaculture design practice I have often noticed a parallel phenomenon: the most difficult, most constrained project sites are invariably the easiest to design and the best sites, in a conventional sense, are the hardest, requiring the most careful observation to design well.

Pruning Apple Trees in Kerry

24/01/202504/02/2025 Paul LynchLeave a commentOrchardapple pruning, apple tree, ballyvourney, ireland, kerry, killarney, orchard, permaculture, pruning

This week I went on a lovely orchard care adventure pruning fruit trees in the beautiful town of Killarney, County Kerry. Its that time of year when there can be several new inquiries for orchard care on a given day and when there are smaller jobs somewhat in the same area I naturally plan to do them in the same trip. Ballyvourney Apple tree Pruning on the way to Kerry First up was a job pruning a large vigourous mature apple tree in a garden in Ballyvourney County Cork. Ballyvourney is a large village at the northern end of the Muskerry Gaeltacht, and its a beautiful place. It was on the main N22 road from Macroom to Killarney until it was recently bypassed. West of Ballyvourney the land rises up into the Derrynasaggart mountains and the lovely Lee valley is left behind as you head for the county bounds and Continue Permaculture Story