It would be fair to say that most of us these days acknowledge that bees are in trouble; most of us also realise that if bees are in trouble we will...
Anyone walking down the Selskar Road might notice a front garden that’s both vibrant with colour and buzzing with bees. The garden belongs to Cathal Copeland and Sustainable Skerries talked to...
We live in strange times and all must make sacrifices of some kind or another but here in Ireland the covid outbreak has had an unexpected consequence: an upsurge of interest...
Sat 21 March, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Skerries Sailing Club Formerly the Head Gardener at the Organic Centre at Rossinver, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, Klaus Laitenberger has been growing vegetables organically...
Charlie Heasman; 6th Nov 2019 Hi, to start off I should apologise for the blatant click bait that is the heading above; allotment gardening cannot save the planet, but I...
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...
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...