Mick Kelly
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Founder #GIY . Presenter Food Matters RTÉ 1 , GROW COOK EAT Amazon Prime. Author The GIY Diaries #100millionGIYers . #Socent . #FoodSystemChange Hacker grower.
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Growing basil on the windowsill - a thread.. one of the most common growing experiences people have is unfortunately also, generally an entirely negative one - bringing a pot of basil home from supermarket only for it to die within a week..
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We don’t have the climate or soil to grow fruit and veg in Ireland they say and it’s JUST not practical.. ! every morsel on the table grown here at home - courgette, garlic, tomatoes, pepper, onions, lettuce, potatoes, herbs
#GIY
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An annual reminder.. buy Irish apples. They are now in-season, few food miles, nutritious, delicious. By doing so we encourage new growers in to the market and maybe reduce the largely unnecessary importing (currently around €100m a year and over 90% of our apple consumption)
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Supermarkets that have non Irish apples on the shelves at this time of the year should be ashamed. And as consumers we should be ashamed to buy them. Price, shape, colour, taste etc - these are not valid excuses in a
#ClimateEmergency
. Say it LOUD: it’s apple season in Ireland.
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Bravo
@Glenisk
- have removed the plastic cap altogether from their milk cartons; using 100% renewable paper and renewable PE for the inner layer. Back to the old way of opening a milk carton..!
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In the furore around veg shortages a key point is being missed: the fact that we no longer eat with the seasons. Peppers, toms, cucumbers etc are not in season here, and it's our need to eat them year round that drives the modern food chain and its contribution to climate change
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Onions from New Zealand.. and we wonder why the world is on fire
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Shocked and saddened to hear that Paula Mee has died. She contributed nutrition facts to a book I wrote many moons ago and she was always generous with her knowledge and utterly charming. Condolences to her family and friends.
#GoneTooSoon
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Mad the traction this thread on supermarket basil got.. 400k views and counting.. welcome to new followers..!
Growing basil on the windowsill - a thread.. one of the most common growing experiences people have is unfortunately also, generally an entirely negative one - bringing a pot of basil home from supermarket only for it to die within a week..
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This letter about proposed smart phone ban at schools from a Greystones principal hits the issue on the head in my humble opinion
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Sorry now but think it’s a disgrace that Lidl are selling pumpkins for 79c - we can only fix our food system when we value our food and the people who produce it.
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That’s a wrap! If you enjoyed this thread check out the resources and online courses section on the GIY
@giyireland
website
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Lots of farming experts out there this weekend telling me we don’t have the climate or soil to grow veg and fruit in Ireland
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Supermarkets at its again with their 49c specials on in-season Irish veg like parsnips, carrots, sprouts that take 6-8 months to grow - let’s be honest that these price promotions permanently lower the value of veg and contribute to growers leaving the market.
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Very proud day for team
@giyireland
and the wider
#GIY
community to host HRH The Prince of Wales at
@Grow_HQ
@ClarenceHouse
#RoyalVisitWaterford
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Good for
@rorysfood
highlighting how we should never import an apple 🍎 in to Ireland. a reminder that it’s Irish Apple season - make a conscious effort to buy Irish only for next few months, and organic if possible
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Amount of out of season veg that features in weekend newspapers recipes is unreal.. convinced it’s less nutritious and with higher food miles, less sustainable.. But above all, because of the long trip from plot to plate.. it’s less delicious. So why recommend cooking with it?
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In the furore around the recent EPA tweet about reducing meat consumption I couldn’t help wondering why the IFA wouldn’t be supportive of people eating more plants when it would be a boon to Irish veg growers (who are also farmers)
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We’ve lost touch with the sheer monotonous hard work that’s involved in producing food, especially when it’s organic and you don’t resort to chemical interventions.. this is why paying a fair price for food and a few bob extra for organic food is worth every cent.
Leek weeding today ahead of visit of storm Francis. Docks and weeds have got ahead of us with poor weather. It will take 8 hours for a team of 6 to get through 1 acre. There is no such thing as cheap food.
@mopsorganic
@mistereatgalway
@OGAgrowers
@cavistons
@Joycesgalway
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And that’s a wrap. 3 series, 21 veg (well 20 veg and 1 fruit) and more Dad jokes than was sensible. Very proud. News of our next adventure coming soon.
#GrowCookEat
#HowFoodGrows
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A ‘chicken sandwich’ with over 40 ingredients - imagine how hard the body has to work to deal with this..? What impact the emulsifiers and stabilisers on your gut health?
#UPFs
#UltraProcessedPeople
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Having an all year round supply of beetroot - a thread 🧵 We grow enough beetroot here to give us all year round beetroot with 2-3 sowings a year. Beetroot are a brilliant crop to GIY - for these reasons
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On Wed March 29th 8.30pm I’m presenting a new show about a more sustainable food system called
#FoodMatters
on
@rte
1 TV. The first Ep is all about people who are nuts about soil including Steve Collins who is growing aronia berries on marginal mountain land in Cork
@EPAIreland
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Ah lads
@Grow_HQ
has only gone and won Cafe of the Year - so very proud of our hard working garden, kitchen and front of house team
@GCsIreland
@IrelandGuide
#georginacampbellawards
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the level of interest in food growing is just phenomenal right now, have never seen anything like it. We have one purpose in the coming months: to get Ireland growing.. reach every household and hook people up with the skills and knowledge they need to GIY
#seedstheday
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10 years ago today, this notice in a local paper marked the start of the GIY movement (we ditched the name Waterford Food Producers Network within a few months ..!). Thank you to everyone who has shared this remarkable journey with us. Happy 10th birthday
@giyireland
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Growing your own garlic. A
#GIY
thread 🧵 This is the perfect time of year to sow your garlic ( traditionally sown before the shortest day of year in December). I like sowing mine in late Oct or early November to give a chance to get started before the hard winter weather..
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I know it’s probably said before but it’s very cruel that small local garden centres have to stay closed while big chains like Homebase and Woodies that have hardware element can open.
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Why can’t the journalist who posted this Aldi puff piece ask them what further damage these price cuts on seasonal veg will have on the already decimated field veg sector - down from 400 growers in 1998 to less than 60 now
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If you want to put delicious nutritious plates of food on the table for you and your family, but have always felt daunted by the idea, then you might be interested in my live, 12-week 'How Food Grows' Kickstart Challenge. Stay tuned for more info...
#TogetherWeGrow
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this means A LOT to all the team
@Grow_HQ
because sustainability is at the heart of everything we do - in the garden, kitchen, front of house, retail. So this is an award for every single person on our amazing team
#GIY
#RAIAwards
#BestSustainablePractices
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It should be the moment in the sun for veg growers. It’s not. Just 60 field veg growers left in the country. we’re now ALL IN on dairy and beef for export. We are incredibly food insecure, particularly the foods the science tells us we and the planet need
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Government should buy and get
@IrishRainforest
in to rewild it for us
The Conor Pass is for sale - 1,400 acres of it including Pedlar’s Lake.
Asking price of €10m.
It should be a National Park!
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So it begins (again). The 2022 GIY season starts with planting garlic cloves in a cleared and composted raised bed . Optimism and gratitude on a wet morning in the veg patch.
#GIY
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This is how our utter reliance on imported fruit/veg and our dying indigenous industry will be called out.. climate chaos will cause disruption in Spain/Holland and they will prioritise domestic use.. but hey, we have plenty of beef/dairy for export
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At Ireland’s UN mission in NY to talk about the role food growing can play in food security and climate change - they are a group of very dedicated people working hard for Ireland to make change on the global stage
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Driving around our countryside at the moment what do you see? Many fields blitzed with glysophate (in advance of ploughing?). The biology of our soil destroyed and our food and bodies polluted - and for what? ease? Efficiency? Cost? we have to do better..
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This day 6 years ago we opened our doors
@Grow_HQ
and this is still one of my favourite pics of my kids as they ran to the door to be the first two customers.. and look at how bare the site was..!
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The tomato experiment worked! 1 week covered with parchment paper in the company of a banana turned these unripened toms red . Super excited..
#GIY
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with all the corona virus anxiety out there, I took to the veg patch yesterday and got out of my head and in to my hands for a few hours. Listened to the sound of my spade working the earth, the birds in the trees, the sun on my face. All was well. xx
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All the usual suspects having their digs at the Taoiseach. I’m grateful our Gov is taking this slow and steady and we have a leader who thinks getting your facts right is important.
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The utter ridiculousness of
#whatplanetareyouon
- participating family lauded for switching to highly processed quorn vegan ‘ham’. When will we learn that the most sustainable foods are those grown and reared seasonally, locally in nutritious soil?
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Am so bloody proud - advanced copy of new kid’s book arrived today which I wrote with Muireann Ní Chiobhain and illustrated by the marvel that is Fatti Burke. In shops in october.. 🤞
#knowitallmanac
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Oh for f**k sake - buying a land rover is not a thoughtful change to live more sustainably
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a really tough few months for all of us
@Grow_HQ
and we’re cautiously excited to get back open from next Wednesday. The cafe will be open 5 days (Wed-Sun) to start, with lots of covered outside dining available. The place looks amazing - can’t wait to see our lovely customers.
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I agree with President Higgins
@PresidentIRL
- we ARE going to have to change what we eat to address the climate emergency and by the way
@IFAmedia
- any citizen including the president is entitled to contribute to a discussion on the future of our food system and our planet
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This is what climate change is doing to food producing across Europe - making it more unpredictable and costly. It shows how fragile our food system is, particularly in Ireland with so few food producers left.
If you see any garlic floating your way it’s probably mine
Crop for 2024 let’s just say is well watered
Now going to pour a big glass of wine and think happy thoughts
If you see our garlic on shelf please buy it now,
Retweets very much appreciated
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heartbreaking talking to Cathal Lenehan (the state’s biggest cabbage grower) who closed his farm because of price pressure and cost increases. Highlights how little we value veg and those that grow them. I also visit a community in Tipp that is supporting a local farm directly.
🌾 Buckle up, because
#FoodMattersTV
Ep. 4 is on
@RTEOne
at 8.30pm today! Tonight's theme is "Supporting Local" & it's an absolute cracker!
Proudly supported by
@Stop_Food_Waste
and
@Rethink_Ireland
For more info & resources, visit
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Takes a grower 6 months to grow a pumpkin. Aldi are flogging them for 79 cent.
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If you want to put delicious nutritious plates of food on the table for you and your family, but have always felt daunted by the idea, then you might be interested in my live, 12-week 'How Food Grows' Kickstart Challenge. Follow me and reply with
#TogetherWeGrow
to hear more
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Grrrr Tesco below-cost flogging in season Irish sprouts below cost at 49c for half kilo - a practice known to permanently devalue veg and push growers out of the market. There is always a cost to free food.
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What the absolute... almond milk and avocados more sustainable than Irish dairy...?
#whatplanetareyouon
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So proud of our hard working team.. and this ambition to make food growing the norm for the next generation of school children 🇮🇪🙌
🌱230 'Grow At School' kits en route to schools across Ireland today. These humble kits will impact 40,000 kids and are one step closer to the GIY ambition of having a garden in every primary school in Ireland that can be used to learn how to grow food. Stay tuned for updates!
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4 years ago today we opened our doors
@Grow_HQ
and our first two customers (proud Dad alert) were two young Kellys. So proud of our team for all we’ve achieved since. Though times are tough, we still love doing what we do, and grateful for the lovely customers that support us.
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holy schmoly - we've a transmission date for
@giyireland
@rte
TV series
#GROWCOOKEAT
- Series 1 kicks off Wednesday 14th March, 7.30pm
#yikes
*hides behind couch*
@Bordbia
@EPAIreland
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I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about the future for
@Grow_HQ
though it remains a deeply uncertain time... we’ve reopened for collection and takeaway from our new sparkly orange food truck ....
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What’s your favourite harvesting moment of the growing year? Mine is still the seasons’ first new potatoes.. bit of mint, knob of butter .. boil for 20 mins. culinary heaven right there
#GIY
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180 Irish apple varieties in the
@IrishSeedSavers
collection and yet nationally we import 95% of our apples and 80% of what we eat here comes from just 5 varieties (many of them a little eh.. bland) - time to broaden our horizons by buying delicious Irish
#heritageapples
!!
Today is International
#EatAnAppleDay
🍎To celebrate, we hosted two Tastes of the Orchards Tours sampling a beautiful array of Irish
#heritageapples
from the National Irish Heritage Apple Tree Collection of over 180 varieties.
#InternationalEatAnAppleDay
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What a terrible irony - one delegation of ministers is selling one of the highest emission foods to the other side of the world while another visits floods here caused by the climate emergency (of which the food system responsible for at least a third)
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15 years since the first
@giyireland
meeting in the library in
#Waterford
city. It’s been some journey. It takes a village so today am thinking of all the people that have helped us and particularly our team past and present.The mission still shines bright!
#GIY
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The
#keelings
situation is the reality of the global food system - cheap , mass produced food, grown and picked by cheap migrant labour...
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Each summer 50 teachers come to
@Grow_HQ
for a week to learn from Richard how to start a school garden - i think a lot about the impact this will have for thousands of kids in years ahead helping to develop food empathy and transform the food system from the ground up
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860,000 viewers for episodes 1-3 of
#GrowCookEat
reflects the surge in interest in GIYing that we and others are seeing. Food growing is a positive physical and mental health response to the awfulness, and will put food on the table
#giy
@giyireland
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So the next thing you could try is to split the plants (carefully, trying not to damage the roots) and pot each 3-5 plants in to a new pot of fresh compost (always peat free) - that would help even more.. because the plants would now have enough space and enough food to thrive
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This time 5 years ago we opened our doors
@Grow_HQ
and these two little Kellys were determined to be our first customers. My, how we’ve grown..!
#GIY
@giyireland
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Ireland is third highest consumer of ultra processed food per household, after UK and Germany 😱
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So proud of our crew
@Grow_HQ
- only 10 months open and winner of the Farm to Plate Award
@FoodAndWineMag
#fwawards
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This lovely family travelled from near Las Vegas to visit
@Grow_HQ
and
#Waterford
having seen our
@giyireland
TV series Grow Cook Eat on
@PrimeVideo
- how cool is that?
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🧵 on the impact of glyphosate on health. The number 1 thing you can do as a consumer to affect change is support organic producers who do not use it or other chemical interventions to produce food. And if you think it’s expensive, ask yourself: How much will it cost to be sick?
There’s a poison that’s silently contaminating our soil, food & water.
It’s destroying our gut microbiomes, hormones & is also linked to chronic diseases like cancer.
It’s called glyphosate.
Here’s what you can do to protect your health.
THREAD
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Looks like we will have
@grow_hq
open for the week of June 7th so. Lots to do lots to do - absolutely can’t wait to welcome you back for the best homegrown food experience..!
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I gave up meat at the start of this year. I’m not against the idea of eating animals (neither is GIY) and think they form a crucial part of a regenerative food system but it’s the industrialised slaughter that I am uncomfortable with and the resulting climate change impact.
How many animals get slaughtered for meat every day?
My new
@OurWorldInData
article is now online:
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We should count ourselves lucky at the leadership we have.. determined, nuanced, fair, honest. Solidarity with people of China and Italy; respect for all aspects of society and our journalists. Very proud of our country.
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It is a simple matter of two interconnected problems - there are way too many plants in a small pot and the plants have run out of food
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Which brings me back to the start. This is our food system. Unless and until we replace it with a more local, small scale, self-sufficient system and be willing to pay more for food (and value the producers), this is what we have..
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After 15 years of growing it’s still a source of wonder and joy that I can actually grow these things myself...
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But first of all, the foundational piece of knowledge: plants take their nutrition to survive from the soil they grow in.. when the soil runs out of nutrition they die.. these basil plants are in potting compost which have limited food in them anyway (about 8 weeks generally).
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Fair play to Emma O’Kelly and colleagues speaking truth to power .. time to stop mollycoddling the stars.. and let the hard working journos with bags of integrity shine
At a protest today, RTÉ employees including education correspondent Emma O'Kelly and political correspondent Paul Cunningham have expressed anger at the revelations of secret payments made to Ryan Tubridy.
Follow the latest on our live story 👇
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I’m looking for 30 people who want to grow food but haven’t because of lack of time, space or knowledge to join a Live Challenge. In May we will work together to become GIYers – growing 12 veg in 12 weeks. I will not let you fail!
#TogetherWeGrow
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So.. if you were to pot the plants up in to a bigger pot with fresh compost when you get home that would certainly extend their life by another 4-6 weeks.. but, that’s not the whole story either..
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wonder when government will put a warning label on these sugar corridors to the till at forecourts..?
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Slices of beefsteak tomatoes with some chopped garlic and olive oil.. pure heaven
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The basil you buy in a supermarket is perilously close to that 8 week time limit by the time you get it home.. (think about how long ago it was sown and how long it spent in storage, distribution and on the supermarket shelf).
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This is brilliant -
@ardkeengrocer
could you be the pioneer for this in Waterford? Soooooo much unnecessary single use plastic goes in to homes to transport milk
Great idea. A Spar near me has introduced a MILK REFILL STATION!!
Buy a glass bottle, fill it with milk, and wash and refill the same glass bottle.
#plasticfree
#ReducePlasticWaste
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It’s a crazy world. 11 years ago started the first
@giyireland
group in Waterford . Just off a call with
@ChangexHQ
@Microsoft
and other social innovations to hopefully start GIY groups in Cheyenne
#Wyoming
... dream big people!
#socent
#microsoftCommunityChallenge
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there have been many a proud moment in 10 years of GIY but getting upstaged by my son (and hen expert) Nicky in tonights episode of
#GROWCOOKEAT
is the proudest of all,
@RTEOne
8:30pm
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As a side note - why do they put so many plants in one pot with this supermarket basil? Because it looks great! If there were only 3 you probably wouldn’t buy it..
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Utterly mortifying video but am ELATED to have the new book The GIY Diaries in hand.. !! Thanks to all the team
@Gill_Books
, Sarah Kilcoyne for illustrating and
@tormcintosh
for all the support - published on Oct 27th, preorder now at
@giyireland
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reading An Irish Atlantic Rainforest by
@IrishRainforest
is to forever have the scales fall from your eyes on what we’ve done to the natural world, what we’ve lost and just how wrong-headed some of our ‘rewilding’ efforts are.
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Like most people I have a cupboard full of useless kitchen gadgets but this chipper is not one of them - it’s brilliant for making chips in seconds..
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