@sevenacres.bsky.social
A smallholding in the midlands of Ireland, specialising in naturally grown vegetables. No GMOs; no synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilisers. sites.google.com/view/sevenacres
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09.12.2025 09:22 — 👍 39 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 0
"There is a serious problem … with all the crows destroying the cars."
Saw the outcome of this today, a load of trees hacked to nubs, a thriving, vivacious rookery destroyed, its inhabitants made homeless as winter arrives. But yeah, cars🤬 #ecocide #LaoisCoCo
www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/rathdow...
TFW you realise your families know you all too well: we threw a lunch yesterday to celebrate 10 years of smallholding & received gifts of (inter alia) wine, whiskey, gin, cake, sweets, book tokens, & a gift voucher for the local hardware store. Lovely day, lovely people. Still doing the washing-up!
07.07.2025 10:43 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is about so much more than just Dartmoor. Join us on the 26th of May to take the next steps towards better access rights across all of England.
Book your free ticket here to let us know if you are coming:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dartmoor-r...
Coach tickets are also available through this link.
Our feathered f(r)iends never tire of extending their home invasion skills, do they? 😮
23.05.2025 07:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Greenhouse packed I think we can finally start planting out as the cold spring comes to an end. My tomatoes are still stupidly small this year but I hope they will grow in the ground. Not shown but brassicas looking great this year.
19.05.2025 06:21 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Not on social media recently (🌞🌞= busy👩🌾); today's the 10th anniversary of my last day at OPCW. 10 years of the occasionally hair-raising plunge into horticulture that followed is compressed, for your entertainment, into about three minutes. (Not the day job. You know what a desk looks like..)
22.05.2025 15:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
I spent the half-year working on this investigation. Extraordinary influence of UPF lobby behind the scenes.
'UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms' 👇
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Sorry for your loss, Gary.
19.05.2025 06:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Impressive!
19.05.2025 05:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shame, shame, *shame* on you, voting to kill Mac Tire (Son of the Land): the wolf, @fiannafailparty.bsky.social and @finegael.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/wolves-vote-...
1776: Showers all day, with hail, & wind. The ground is pretty well moistened.
05.05.2025 06:00 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely looking onion and shallot transplants going in #gardening
27.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A still from The Wicker Man showing four children carrying a baby doll down a street. Based on similar old European customs detailed in James Frazer's book The Golden Bough, which was the source for many practices in the film https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41572/41572-h/41572-h.html#toc43
Another still showing the girl at the front carrying the doll in close up
"We carry death out of the village.
We carry summer into the village"
Happy #MayDay #Beltane #WickerManDay all!
Old car in the 18th century farmyard at Ballykilcavan.
Old car in the 18th century farmyard at Ballykilcavan.
Old cars in the 18th century farmyard at Ballykilcavan.
Delighted to host the launch of the 2025 Gordon Bennett Classic which will be running as usual over the June Bank Holiday weekend. Some lovely old cars in the old farmyard this afternoon.
#Ballykilcavan #Laois #IrelandsAncientEast #GordonBennettClassic #LoveLaois
In the last few weeks traveling around the country I recorded a lot of wildlife and livestock enjoying spring. I put them all together in one place. The radio audience loved it, you might find it a bit of a refuge too.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
1. Reintroduce missing predators
2. Shooting
3. Deer fencing (2m high)
Today is the launch date of ByLandAndSea.ie ! A guide to travel to and from Ireland without flying. Please share and follow!
15.04.2025 23:29 — 👍 73 🔁 48 💬 1 📌 6It doesn't get much attention but the EU energy efficiency directive obliges Ireland to reduce absolute energy demand by 2030 by 12.6% (vs 2022).
Instead Government is doubling down on data centres, driving electricity and gas demand and calling it 'green growth'.
Inspired by the image compression on our solar-powered website, we squeezed the article catalog of our three-volume book series into just one book. Come to our book launch event in Barcelona. Register via this link: www.meetup.com/akashabarcel...
14.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Ripening salad tomatoes with rocket, borage, and deadnettle
Close-up of ripening plum tomatoes
Close up of ripening cherry tomatoes
Close up of ripening salad tomatoes
Good weekend so far: 1200 more words in my novella during a @britfantasysoc.bsky.social writing sprint yesterday, and 10 li'l tomato seedlings have germinated. Only 52 more to go. (Tomatoes. 52 more tomato plants. Quite a lot more words). Tomato pics from about 3 yrs ago.
#AmWriting #Horticulture
Rachel Reeves holds newts in contempt, it seems.
So I thought I'd post this glorious painting of a "lion of the duckweed" by Jackie Morris + my paean to these "kings of the pond", both from The Lost Words.
Newt-lovers, unite!
Reminder for Irish readers. Oleg owns Aughinish Alumina near Foynes; an environmental time-bomb also, as it happens.
30.01.2025 08:54 — 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
www.newscientist.com/article/2464...
This kills land use worries for solar across wide swaths of the planet.
#Ireland should be doing far more to speak up for #GaiaDelap
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... - she's Irish, has an Irish passport and a great niece of the famous Kerry marine scientist Maud Delap
Dark rural yard at morning twilight, with crescent waning moon
Rural road with trees and hedge, and snow
Rural road, with reddish trees, and snow-covered hedge and snow
Snow-frosted field, with stand of reddish trees to the back and right, and a dark, snowy hedge to the front.
....aaaaand we're back to snow. With more storm tomorrow....First picture kinda crooked but I was trying to get the crescent waning moon.
25.01.2025 08:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0📌
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Recipe book cover mockup. Vibrant photo of food ona slate grey counter. Tomatoes, limes, street tacos, a red enamel skillet with beans, chili peppers, salsa, corn tortillas stuffed with picadillo. A graphic effect in the center appears to reveal text by tearing this photo. The text reads "HOW TO COOK LIKE THE PEOPLE YOU JUST DEPORTED Authentic ethnic flavors for bigots who don't deserve them"
24.01.2025 16:26 — 👍 15941 🔁 4410 💬 148 📌 179Wind direction and pure chance undoubtedly play their parts, along with intensity of storm. You don't have to be jealous of our snow, though: it was only for a short while - the weather is just messin' with us. Who nows what it will come up with next?!
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