Restoring Mayberry

I'm posting selected talks from the FEASTA conference one by one -- apologies to all those who don't have broadband. Chris Vernon – ...

FADA held the grand opening of our community garden last Saturday, and everything went well. I had done a radio show, press releases and a l...

Bruce Darrell – The Future of our Food Supply from Feasta on Vimeo . Another good talk from the FEASTA conference, by Bruce Darrell.

I didn’t realise until tonight that this was the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing,* which risks being remembered in the same way we reme...

We saw this and other islands from a boat in Lough Corrib, near where "The Quiet Man" was filmed. We were told the island, large e...

Dmitry Orlov – Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment from Feasta on Vimeo . I like this far less than his other talk, but this is the one for wh...

Gorse is one of the commonest scrub plants here -- thorny, tough, and inedible to almost everything, so it is rarely trimmed by grazing. On ...

Sorry about the break there -- posting will be lighter than usual this week. The following is from a 1993 conversation with Father Thomas Be...

The group is doing well here in County Kildare. We unveiled our new community garden recently -- "Bia Linn," or "Our Food...

It appears that, as I was posting my notes from Orlov's talk, he was posting the actual talk. You can find it here: http://cluborlov.blo...