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Community Gardening Over the years, Cultivate have run numerous garden and permaculture courses, from short talks and workshops in our roof-top garden at the old location in Temple Bar to fully-fledged and accredited 72 hour Permaculture Design courses in Cloughjordan. We collect resources, links, images and more in our Permaculture blog devoted to this area. We are aligned to several Community Gardens around Dublin and look forward to developing this area further. Also in development are a range of programmes being generated by our in-house master composters who demonstrate in the Global Green at the Electric Picnic,

Immersive Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2012

Gardening & Permaculture

hannah at tree ID Organised by Cultivate in association with The Village

17 - 26 August 2012 (full-time and full-on from Friday evening until Sunday lunch time) | Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland | Find presentations, links and other resources on Our Permaculture Blog | Enquiries: +353 1 674 5773 or Email Us | €550 / €100 non-refundable deposit required by 15 July 2012 | Some scholarships / concessions available at 10% discount

Now in its 4th year, the Permaculture Design Certificate Course in Cloughjordan offers the unique opportunity to learn embedded in an active ecovillage and vibrant community. We are assembling a great group of trainers and will confirm them soon. See photos of previous courses here.

Permaculture is a practical method of developing ecologically harmonious, efficient and productive systems that can be used by anyone, anywhere. This is a fully-accredited (by U.K. Permaculture Association) seventy-two hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course.

Vegetable Gardening Tips

Gardening & Permaculture

Month-by-month vegetable gardening tips from Kathleen!

Scroll down to discover tips for the entire year!

December / January Vegetable Garden

Things to do:

1. Get organised for the spring and start collecting plastic bottles for cloches.

2. Build a compost bin at the bottom of your garden.

Herb Gardening Tips

Gardening & Permaculture

Scroll down to discover tips for the entire year!

December / January Herb Schedule

Things to do:

Protect planters, especially terracotta planters with bubble-wrap or hessian or even old jumpers. The cold temperatures and frost can easily penetrate containers, freezing the soil and plant roots and killing all but the most robust plants.

Fruit Gardening Tips

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Month-by-month fruit gardening tips from Kathleen!

December / January Fruit Garden

Things to do:

1. Complete picking very late-maturing apples, before the hard frosts come

2. Inspect your stored fruits, and remove any rotten ones.

Vegetables For the Irish Garden by Klaus Laitenberger

Gardening & Permaculture

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The Reference Work for the Irish Climate

Cultivate are delighted to be able to offer for sale Klaus Laitenberger's Vegetables For the Irish Garden.

€14.95 (Buy online)

Klaus Laitenberger has been growing organic vegetables for over twenty years in the UK and Ireland. He was running a four-acre organic market garden in England before moving to Ireland in 1999 where he was the Head Gardener at the Organic Centre in Rossinver, Co. Leitrim for seven years. He then took on the challenge to start the garden restoration in Lissadell House in Co. Sligo.

For the last few years he works as a self-employed trainer, mentor and consultant in organic horticulture. Last year he completed his PgDip in Organic Farming (SAC Aberdeen and University of Glasgow). His first book, Vegetables For the Irish Garden, is now available. The book will be of interest for anybody just starting to grow a few vegetables for the first time as well as for the more advanced gardeners.

Read a review by Jane Powers in the Irish Times, published Saturday, July 17, 2010.

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Immersive Permaculture Design Certificate Course 2012

Vegetable Gardening Tips

Month-by-month vegetable gardening tips from Kathleen!

Herb Gardening Tips

Fruit Gardening Tips

Month-by-month fruit gardening tips from Kathleen!

Vegetables For the Irish Garden by Klaus Laitenberger

The Reference Work for the Irish Climate