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How to create the perfect office space in your home

WCP Staff May, 2020

For most of us our homes are currently the central location for our business or, a secondary work-area, classroom, and creche, all-in-one space. Prior to Covid-19, home office space would generally not have been seen as an essential ergonomically planned space in our home. So, like many others right now, […]

Early summer foods for pollinators

WCP Staff May, 2020

by Mags Riordan of Bumblebee Flower Farm I’m sure I’m just like everyone else who swings from feeling really positive and motivated one day to downright despair and lethargy and everything-in-between the next. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions to be sure but there is one constant that is helping keep […]

Creating a welcoming entrance and hallway space

WCP Staff April, 2020

Maura Mackey is a Cork-based interior and retail display designer. A professional with an eye for detail and interior styling, she thrives on giving any home the ‘showhouse feel’ when up for sale or rental from a home staging point of view. On the other hand, if you are looking […]

Innocent and GIY bring The Big Grow home

WCP Staff April, 2020

Innocent and GIY have this week made free vegetable growing starter kits available for gardens and window boxes around the country with 5,000 of their Big Grow home kits available for little and large growers across the nation, in a bid to provide some wholesome and healthy reprise amidst the […]

Gardening in May

WCP Staff April, 2020

by John Hosford of The Weekend Garden Centre May is a hectic month in the garden in the flower, vegetable and fruit department. Growth is taking off and new leaves have or are emerging. Gardening is a very worthwhile activity interacting with nature and the soil and as a result […]

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Green Party calls for allotments and farmers’ markets to be designated as essential services

WCP Staff April, 2020

The Green Party is calling for a lifting of restrictions on allotments and farmer’s markets to address local food security, and to secure the livelihoods of people and families with no other access to the market. With the Government loosening restrictions on construction sites, and considering similar measures for other […]

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