Tag:organic
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.
In conversation with Michael Hickey
author, organic pioneer, changemaker Topics include*stacking shelves then changing course*facing The Wall in Alice Springs*natural skills*finding yourself, choosing your path*self awareness*cause and effect*writing to explore oneself*reincarnation*transcending the division between ego and soul to find your *consciousness*dream therapy*self-acceptance for courage to change*following relationship, not objective*communication, appreciation, confidence*recognising and facing your own past and prejudices*challenge catalysing cultural …
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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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Podcasts: I like weeds, The stupidity of crippling the USPS.
I like weeds. The stupidity of crippling the post office.
What’s up this new year …
Kung hei fat choi! This traditional Cantonese greeting means “May you have great wealth!” and is expressed at Chinese new year often followed by Lai see dow loi, meaning “Give me me lucky money” ;-). There are many new years celebrated around the world starting from October (eg Divali in India) to the ancient Babylonian …
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