Starting to grow fruit sounds daunting, but fruit-growing is less demanding than growing vegetables or annual flowers, and most soft fruit is really easy, as Deborah Ballard, Future Forests explains – especially now that so many of us have the time to work in the garden. If you have the […]
Health & Lifestyle
Jacques Brennan is the author of ‘Hungry Soul – How to Cook 100 per cent Vegan’ and is a frequent collaborator with the West Cork arts and health organisation MusicAlive. He is also a guest food artist for World Mental Health Day events at 49 North Street in Skibbereen…and occasional […]
Like everyone else no doubt, I’ve been struggling to believe, let alone accept, what is currently going on in our world. It feels so surreal or even at times as if we are in some futuristic novel. Yet it is very real and it is happening now. So, whether we […]
In this time of Coivid-19, take a moment and think about how many times you’ve washed and sanitised your hands today. Both entirely necessary I might add, but repetitive hand washing can damage the integrity of the skin, causing hands to become dry, sore and irritated, and if the skin […]
Exploding Tree, based in Clonakilty, is known for its alternative, and delicious, approach to chocolate. The only entirely Fairtrade Bean-to-Bar Chocolate maker in Ireland, Exploding Tree finds inspiration working directly with the cocoa bean to make chocolates for those looking for something different. This Easter, Allison Roberts, founder of Exploding Tree, (formerly Clonakilty Chocolate), is shining […]
Dr. Rosari Kingston PhD, M.Sc (Herbal medicine) is a medical herbalist practising in Dr. O’Reilly’s integrative clinical practice in Clonakilty, Co. Cork as well as Church Cross, Skibbereen. She considers the integration of herbal medicine with biomedicine to be the future of health care, if the great traditional medical systems, […]