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Grow it Yourself - February

Author: Michael Kelly

The other evening I was going through some notes from a course on soil fertility I attended a few years back with Jim Cronin on his smallholding in Bridgetown, Co Clare. Jim is a rare breed – a wise sage who wears his considerable wisdom lightly. The two greatest materials for returning fertility to soil, he says, are seaweed and homemade compost.
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The Eunice Power Column - Eat Yourself to Good Health

Author: Eunice Power

Since I was a child carrots have appeared on my dinner plate several times a week. My mum used to tell us that they helped us see better in the dark – and she wasn’t too far from the truth. Carrots are energising and are a great antiseptic, as well as having anti oxidant qualities. Did you know that a single carrot will supply all your vitamin A needs for the whole day. My children often snack on raw carrots, and I use them not just as a veggie but also in baking, muffins and delicious carrot cake.
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Natasha's Living Food

Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them

A lot of things about Natasha Czopor’s ‘Natasha's Living Food’ are out of the ordinary, beginning with Natasha herself, who is representative of Ireland’s energetic and enterprising young cosmopolitan population - and she makes her products by hand in Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, which is near the Phoenix Park and not generally known as a manufacturing area of the city.
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This Farming Life - February

Castlefarm Athy County Kildare Ireland - Chickens & Allotments

Author: Jenny Young

Jenny Young and the team at Castlefarm are busy preparing for spring – and watching TV in bed...The arrival of February sees the birth of lots of calves (approx 70) at Castlefarm. All our cows are indoors full time. The herd is split into two, the milkers and the calvers.
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Book Review - BOUGHT, BORROWED & STOLEN, Recipes & Knives from a Travelling Chef

BOUGHT, BORROWED & STOLEN, Recipes & Knives from a Travelling Chef (Octopus, hardback Ã‚Â£25)

Author: Cookbook Reviews

Not a lot of people could claim an MBE for services to the hospitality industry on their CVs, but Allegra McEvedy is one who can – and the best-selling food writer, chef, broadcaster and culinary explorer’s unusual book BOUGHT, BORROWED & STOLEN, Recipes & Knives from a Travelling Chef (Octopus, hardback £25) illustrates perfectly what makes her stand out from the crowd.
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Purple Sprouting Broccoli

Author: In Season

Sprouting broccoli is one of my favourite vegetables and it’s a great crop to grow yourself because, strangely, it’s very rarely to be seen in the shops in Ireland. A brassica (member of the cabbage family), it is grown for its clusters of flower heads, which are harvested before the flowers open and used as a vegetable in a similar way to asparagus.
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Euro Toques Young Chef of the Year 2011

Author: News

The Euro-Toques Young Chef of the Year competition has been a highlight of Ireland’s pre-Christmas culinary season for 21 years, and attending the finalists’ lunch and announcement of the winner is always a treat. No less so this time around, when a beautiful meal was cooked by the finalists and served...
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The Eunice Power Column

Author: Eunice Power

January is a pretty hectic month for me, lots of wedding and catering enquiries along with room reservation for what looks like a busy year ahead. So a good healthy start to the year for me is imperative. Did you know that a simple thing such as eating and enjoying the right food will improve your mood and self esteem? Very important in this over stressed world, wouldn’t you agree.
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The Darina Allen Column

Author: Darina Allen

So many menus nowadays are utterly predictable, chicken, farmed salmon, steak and maybe lamb. Sometimes there is duck but it’s rare enough to be offered any wild food or game. The deer hunting season is open until February 28th depending on the type of deer (check the different dates with National Parks and Wildlife Service) so in response to a readers request I have decided to concentrate on venison in this article.
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The Foods of Athenry

Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them

When former dairy farmers Paul and Siobhan Lawless started their farmhouse bakery, “The Foods of Athenry” in 2000, a converted bicycle shed on their Co Galway farm was the unlikely setting for the new business. Basing their philosophy on the simple concept that they wouldn’t put anything into their products that they weren’t happy to give to their own family...
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