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Cheese: A Fridge Too Far?

December 17, 2008

So the lettuce seedlings died, and the salad leaves and kale survived. I use the term ’survived’ loosely as the kale was just banished to the balcony by my cohabiter where they will presumably perish. I would have put them in the greenhouse only the outside parsley is streets ahead of the greenhouse parsley so [...]

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Growing in Social Housing

December 4, 2008

OK, so I’ve clocked the kale growing at 0.00kph. It might be time for a bit of a diversion…
There was a not-too-pretty block of social housing in Dublin, not too far from Stephen’s Green which has recently been replaced with more modern and sustainable social housing. Interesting to urban farmers is to note the consideration given [...]

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