Dear Fellow Gardeners, The year 2018 has been a very busy and exciting year for me travelling and discovering new (or old) vegetable crops from the Andes and trialling them…

Dear Fellow Gardeners, Winter has arrived and gardening in the cold and rain is not much fun unless you have a polytunnel or greenhouse. Last week we pulled out all…

Dear Fellow Gardeners, There is a distinct autumn feel in the air with a refreshing chill in the morning and already some trees are changing colour.  Nature is starting to…

Dear Fellow Gardeners, I hope that everyone in Ireland has got sufficient rain by now.  We were much luckier up here in the North West.  We also had a long…

Dear Fellow Gardeners, Who would have thought that we get such a wonderful summer with two prolonged hot spells and that it even made it to Leitrim.   July is the…

Peru Experience During my Nuffield Travels in Peru I was so lucky to have met Douglas and Marivel Walsh from Cusichaca Trust in Peru and Juan Guillen – a wonderful…

I’m so proud to have been selected as one of the 2018 Ireland Nuffield Scholars.  This trip will lead me through many countries with a diverse group of people and…

Dear Fellow Gardeners, It’s happening all over again all over the country.  The green fields of Ireland are turning brown again.  I thought we learned after the World Health Organisation…