by Antonia Butler I would highly recommend this book to anyone – How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. It was recommended to me by someone at Taylor Street Farm while we were weeding last spring, and I finally got to reading it this summer, under unusual circumstances, I would say: …
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How To Not Take Things Personally
Breathe. Think. Flow. We teach this simple model for living well, and it has become our go-to framework for running our own businesses and lives. The 3-step process emerged over years of noticing what worked for us as we researched a huge range of body-mind-spirit and elevated consciousness models, sharing our perspectives through books and …
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Art as Activism at Tullow Community School
We were delighted and grateful for an invitation to meet with a class of 5th Year art students at Tullow Community School, and very impressed with the students’ engagement with the big ideas presented in Feast Upon The Earth. Our presence was part of a day celebrating the student’s exhibition of a project bringing new …
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Education, Food, Banking and Grow Your Own: KCLR’s Eimear Ní Bhraonáin talks with Tom
Grow Your Own
A monthly course to help you produce your own healthy food. Here’s a short video of our introductory day in February. Get in touch or book your spot here!
Grow Your Own – introduction
Tom walks around the garden introducing the Grow Your Own course held at Ballin Temple.
Spring Notes: St Brigid, Gardening, Trees, Horse, Furniture Design, History
Spring in Ireland launched with a new festival: St Brigid’s Day! It was a timely reminder of the strength of the feminine and the human sense of justice and care for nature. As you know, we love nature here at Ballin Temple and we took the opportunity to reflect on the changes in Ireland since …
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The World in a Carrot
There was a time when I was strongly resistant to the dirt, bother, inconvenience of the organic vegetable. As my taste buds adjusted though, I began to feel let down by the shops’ offerings.
Richard Auler
Richard is an amazing human. He died a couple of days ago – I’ve not heard the full story yet, but I’m sad and pissed off. I regret not spending more time with him, though he was such a dynamic dude, even in his 70s, it was hard to keep up. He was a very …
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BT news – logging, spring planting, garden course, fishing, yoga, … nature.
What’s going on at Ballin Temple? More than we expected, especially as Ireland has been under lockdown all year so far. If you’ve seen some of the posts on social media you’ll have an inkling of how busy we’ve been. In order to keep the fires burning we were doing a lot of logging since …
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