Category:Home and Garden
Grow Your Own
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
I like weeds. The stupidity of crippling the post office.