The time we have been waiting for all summer has arrived. The tomatoes have ripened and we are enjoying them with nearly everything. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. We grew 15 varieties of tomatoes this year, all selected for their flavour rather than prolific production or uniform size. The names are […]
One year on from opening its doors and Cork’s first minimal waste store Twig-Refill is slowly but surely helping to change the way we think and shop. Plastic, packaging and waste have become ‘dirty’ words with the climate crisis facing our planet. This shift in thinking and move away from […]
Patsy Puttnam speaks to West Cork People about her passion for the environment and trying to save it, her love of West Cork and her sadness at what her country of birth with Brexit is doing to her adopted country. In 1988 Patsy Puttnam got her first glimpse of Skibbereen. […]
The farm: I help out my father on the farm along with my two brothers. We have 40 acres on the home farm and another 20 acres rented in an outside block. We keep 40 autumn calving suckler cows. I also work as an Ag-consultant with Owen O’Driscoll and associates […]
August 2019 will be remembered as a tumultuous month in the annals of Irish beef history. A series of protests outside beef factories brought production to a standstill at a number of plants throughout the country, the ABP plant in Bandon included. Indeed the site at Kilbrogan was where the […]
Cathal Nolan is a PhD Candidate in Geography at UCC, specialising in Climate Change science and impacts in an Irish context while also founding and managing the increasingly popular Midland Weather Channel on Facebook. Having emerged from a reasonably unsettled period of late, our weather looks like becoming somewhat more […]