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Perennial Plate

7 Feb

It was a pleasure to have Chef and Activist, Daniel Klein and Filmmaker Mirra Fine (The Perennial Plate) documenting the NCAD Community Garden’s main man Tony Lowth. Our Mountain from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo. The Perennial Plate is a two-time James Beard Award winning online weekly documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating. […]

An introduction to Organic Growing Experience

3 Feb

Hello world This website has been a little bit out of date for good few months for very good reasons. Nonetheless I thought I should introduce myself for a tiny bit so that you all don’t get confused. I am Giulia, I love nature and natural way of living, I am mainly an artist, working […]

Moj pohlad na surfing

16 Apr

Otváram oči a cez zaves uz do izby prenika svetlo noveho dna. Vonku je modra obloha bezvetrie a teplota kusok pod nulou. Vecer pred spanim som kontroloval predpoved vyzera to ze sa naplna, tak dufam ze aj predpoved vln vyjde. V izbe je tiez riadna kosa a hned ako sa pohnem uz je pri mne […]

Môj veľký výlet

14 Mar

Konecne nastal cas aby som sa vyjadril aj v mojom rodnom jazyku. Po vsetkych tych rokoch v cudzine ma to stale bavi a tak chcem moju stranku zamerat na Irsko. Taktiez sa mi lahsie pise v anglictine, pretoze odpadaju vsetky tie dĺžne a mäkčeňe. Povodne mal byt tento blog hlavne o mojej ceste za prirodnym […]

Jason’s Forest Garden

16 Jan

It is two weeks now since I arrived to this Forest Garden in a small village close to the coast of Portugal. I am staying with second WWOOF host on this trip. Jason and his 3 kids are living here in his period villa. During 12 years here he created a jungle garden in his […]

Porto

4 Jan

My next stop was second biggest city of Portugal and home of the port wine Porto. It is stretched around the steep hills of Douro river valley. The history of Porto dates back to the 4th century, to the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. Now it is a vibrant touristic town with many places […]

Colours of portugese winter

22 Dec

Today was easy day on the farm so we had a chance to explore surroundings. Plan was to visit the Castle of Arnoia. We did a wrong turn somewhere on the beginning and I think that it was even a nicer walk. And also much healthier because we found lots of fruit on the way. […]

Coming to Portugal

18 Dec

Galicia was amazing and deserves a post blog by itself. First I have to tell you the recent story. I decided to join wwoof Portugal which is about working on organic farms about 20 hours per week in exchange for food and accommodation  Great way to learn new things, meet interesting people and get to know the culture. […]

Journey continues… more or less

30 Nov

N-642 – km 49 – CERVO – This information do I have from my first encounter with Spanish police. My van is broken again and this time I have Haynes service manual. In the fault finding chapter I didn’t find anything positive. But let me tell you a longer story about good times as well. […]

Asturias

20 Nov

Asturias is a cool part of Spanish coast. I am enjoying glass of nice spanish vine and tapas while surfing the web. I am in the old town of Gijon the biggest city of Asturias. Town has really nice ambience whith all small vinaterias and regions popular siderias. Especially on the weekends streets fill up […]