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Art as Activism at Tullow Community School

Posted on 23 April, 2024Updated on 27 February, 2025by PamCategories:1 Perspective, 5 Environment, 6 Information and Communication Technology, 7 Holonics and Life, Climate Change, Education, Home and Garden, Living

We were delighted and grateful for an invitation to meet with a class of 5th Year art students at Tullow Community School, and very impressed with the students’ engagement with the big ideas presented in Feast Upon The Earth. Our presence was part of a day celebrating the student’s exhibition of a project bringing new …
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Education, Food, Banking and Grow Your Own: KCLR’s Eimear Ní Bhraonáin talks with Tom

Posted on 21 March, 2023Updated on 30 March, 2023by astraeaCategories:Climate Change, Education, Home and Garden, Living, Media and Gatherings

Grow Your Own

Posted on 13 March, 2023Updated on 13 March, 2023by PamCategories:5 Environment, Education, Europe, Health, Home and Garden, Living

A monthly course to help you produce your own healthy food. Here’s a short video of our introductory day in February. Get in touch or book your spot here!

Grow Your Own – introduction

Posted on 3 March, 2023Updated on 3 March, 2023by astraeaCategories:Home and Garden, Living, Media and Gatherings

Tom walks around the garden introducing the Grow Your Own course held at Ballin Temple.

Spring Notes: St Brigid, Gardening, Trees, Horse, Furniture Design, History

Posted on 19 February, 2023Updated on 19 February, 2023by astraeaCategories:Home and Garden, Living

Spring in Ireland launched with a new festival: St Brigid’s Day! It was a timely reminder of the strength of the feminine and the human sense of justice and care for nature. As you know, we love nature here at Ballin Temple and we took the opportunity to reflect on the changes in Ireland since …
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The World in a Carrot

Posted on 11 January, 2023Updated on 11 January, 2023by PamCategories:5 Environment, 7 Holonics and Life, Europe, Health, Home and Garden, Living

There was a time when I was strongly resistant to the dirt, bother, inconvenience of the organic vegetable. As my taste buds adjusted though, I began to feel let down by the shops’ offerings.

Richard Auler

Posted on 15 November, 2021Updated on 15 November, 2021by astraeaCategories:5 Environment, Home and Garden

Richard is an amazing human. He died a couple of days ago – I’ve not heard the full story yet, but I’m sad and pissed off. I regret not spending more time with him, though he was such a dynamic dude, even in his 70s, it was hard to keep up. He was a very …
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BT news – logging, spring planting, garden course, fishing, yoga, … nature.

Posted on 21 April, 2021Updated on 21 April, 2021by astraeaCategories:Home and Garden, Living

What’s going on at Ballin Temple? More than we expected, especially as Ireland has been under lockdown all year so far. If you’ve seen some of the posts on social media you’ll have an inkling of how busy we’ve been. In order to keep the fires burning we were doing a lot of logging since …
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POV recovery of timber from woods.

Posted on 24 February, 2021Updated on 24 February, 2021by astraeaCategories:5 Environment, Home and Garden, Living

A couple of POV videos of recovery of timber for the fire from the woods. This might be of interest to smallholders etc. (“Don’t try this at home.”) Many thanks to Noel Hutton for tuning and sharpening one of the two similar saws used. ‘Twas running better than new! A fine dry day made all …
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Podcasts: I like weeds, The stupidity of crippling the USPS.

Posted on 7 September, 2020by astraeaCategories:1 Perspective, 2 Geopolitics, Home and Garden

I like weeds. The stupidity of crippling the post office.