Last October 2008, I wrote a post about the Pro Silva Ireland trip to the forests of Slovenia. Pro Silva Europe was launched in Slovenia back in 1989 and this year, in September, instead of just a three day forest trip and a brief committee meeting, a much more comprehensive event was planned to mark [...]
Yesterday I met a man who agreed to help me work through a new project I’ve been thinking about, to do with close-to-nature forestry of course. I travelled to Dublin on the train. We met in Juice, that wonderful restaurant on South Great George’s Street, Dublin. I had never met him before. He started by [...]
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There are four mature mango trees in the garden of the old weatherboard house that my father rebuilt. My father passed away five years ago. The house and the trees remain. Mango trees are prolific in their production of the sweet, juicy fruit and when they are heavy with ripe fruit, the fruit bats would [...]
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