Summer
2011 Summer
Welcome to the Summer 2011 issue of Organic Matters.
In our online features this season, Judith Hoad enjoys the possibilities of her new electricity generation system; Grace Maher talks to a successful Co. Cork smallholding; Rosaleen McMenamin reports on the Community Harvest Group in Skerries; and Cáit Curran meets organic farmers Paddy and Geraldine Blackwell.
And, as always, there’s lots more in the print edition: A visit to Buenes Aires; Source Sligo restaurant and cookery school; what can Ireland learn from Austrian organic farming?; and the Energise Ireland campaign for a green energy and economy revolution.
In the Print Edition…
A Few Days in Buenos Aires
Gerry Galvin is inspired by a short visit to the Argentinian capital.
Back to the Source
Oliver Moore visits Source in Sligo and finds a haven for food lovers.
Austrian Eurovision
Ireland can learn from Austria’s organic success, says Gillian Westbrook, who met a visiting delegation of organic farmers.
Sloan Rangers
Ruth O’Connor meets Joanna and Stephanie Sloan who have created an up and coming organic children’s wear label.
The Real Deal
Good tools are essential to the commercial grower. Billy Clifford extols the virtues of the wheel hoe.
A Green Revolution
Lenny Antonelli of sustainable building and energy magazine, Construct Ireland, introduces the Energise Ireland campaign for a green energy and economy revolution.
Drink it Raw…
Cloughjordan ecovillage community discovers the benefits of raw milk. Oliver Moore samples everything.
Working Without External Inputs
Dug Dudley examines some of the issues related to maintaining a closed system on the farm.
Green Houses
There’s no such thing as rubbish, says Chas Griffin, who encourages us to live by the reduce, re-use, re-cycle motto.
A Soil Association report in the UK finds that Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) offers many benefits to members,
communities, local economies and...
