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Christmas herbs and spices for your health

Dr Rosari Kingston December, 2025

Preparations for Christmas are well under way, with food shopping taking on a different dimension at this time of the year, as we purchase herbs and spices we normally do not use. The spices include cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, cardamom, allspice, and star anise. The herbs commonly used at Christmas […]

Gift a skill this Christmas

Fionnuala Harkin December, 2025

When our children started to move out of home and begin their independent lives, we decided that the best Christmas present for all of us was an opportunity to spend time together. Better again if we got to learn something while we were at it, and of course picking a […]

Why a good multivitamin and mineral still matters

Hannah Dare November, 2025

Twenty years ago, when Rachel and I took over managing Organico, supplements were simple. Most of us just took a basic multivitamin and maybe a spoonful of cod liver oil, and that was it (unless we had a cold when we took tons of Echinacea!). The shelves weren’t crowded, and […]

Turkish tales and tasty stew

Karen Austin November, 2025

At this moment we’re sitting in the airport awaiting our direct flight from Izmir to Cork. This wasn’t planned but as we wandered around some of the Greek islands we realised we were very close to Turkey, closer than the twelve-hour ferry ride back to Athens and a direct flight […]

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A soup full of beans

Karen Austin October, 2025

September bought us, amongst many other things, a lot of beans. Not our first beans – we’ve been picking them since June – but more beans…and now we are harvesting beans in pods, which is super exciting. I managed to get my hands on some new varieties this year, which […]

Aubergine octopus

Karen Austin September, 2025

We have a fantastic aubergine colony with very productive slim fruits growing in our tunnel. We grow a variety called ‘long purple’, which are obviously happy where they are, as we pick from July through to the end of October and each week we harvest two or three aubergines from […]

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