Back in September Charlie Heasman from Sustainable Skerries was invited to talk at the Wellness Festival in Skerries Mills. The talk never took place. Unfortunately he had been allocated the first...
Charlie Heasman; 10/10/2019 Skerries allotment holders have been focusing their attention a lot lately on issues of soil management and sustainability. First was a visit from Klaus Laitenberger during which...
Sustainable Skerries scooped two awards at County Hall, Swords on Thursday. The occasion was the Fingal Greener Communities awards presented by Fingal County Council. Forty awards were given to individuals and...
Charlie Heasman, 30th Sept 2019 Last Saturday Skerries Allotments played host to Irish organic gardening guru Klaus Laitenberger. To call him Irish is perhaps a misnomer; he is an introduced...
Charlie Heasman; 12th July 2017 It’s been a funny old growing year so far – but then aren’t they all? – and in our allotment we’ve so far had our...
Charlie Heasman, June 16th 2019 I set out to write about bumblebees and have veered off topic before even writing a word so this will be a post in two parts. ...
Charlie Heasman; 7th June 2019 When I first started writing this blog I thought I’d be talking about growing healthy veg, working with nature and all things joyous. Now, for...
Charlie Heasman May 12, 2019 in Uncategorized | 1 comment (Edit) Okay, so the title’s a little over the top but nonetheless we’re approaching the middle of May and you wouldn’t know...
April 22, 2019 by Charlie Heasman I normally enjoy writing about the allotments and all that goes on through the year, and why not? After all, we’re all up there growing...
April 2019 April can in many ways be a frustrating month; it’s supposed to be all about sunshine, sparkling showers and blossom bursting out on fruit trees. And sometimes it is....