Rhubarb Fizz...the perfect spring refresher!

Making Rhubarb Fizz with TY's at the Acre Project Celbridge, they even drank it!

Rhubarb Fizz

Ingredients:

1 kg rhubarb
3 cups sugar
6 teaspoons white vinegar
4 litres water
2 lemons

Method:  Cut rhubarb into small pieces; add to large bowl/container.  Slice lemon in strips with rind on it.  Add lemon slices and rest of ingredients to the rhubarb.  Cover and leave for 48 hours stirring occasionally.  Strain 3 times.  Bottle(plastic only) and label.  Leave for two weeks to mature. be careful, it builds up a lot of fizz! I speak from experience!

*NEW COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECT AT PIPER'S HILL, NAAS*

I have just been asked ot get involved with the development of a new community garden at the Piper's Hill school in Naas, CO. Kildare. the idea is to kick start a garden that will be used by the whole school, the initial plan is to work with a group of parents to get the garden going. This project will be starting in February 2012! Watch this space...

November 2011 - Lucy on Dublin City Fm - The Sod Show

I met up with and had an informal chat with landscaper and radio presenter Peter Donegan who presents The Sod Show, a gardening programme on Dublin City Fm every Friday at 3pm. We met in November in The Loft Bookshop, which is upstairs in The Twisted Pepper, to have a chat about the importance of growing and eating our own food, especially in relation to educating children about the importance of growing your own food and thinking about where it comes from. We talked specifically about 'The Year Round Organic Garden', the book I co-wrote with Kerry Earth Education Project and Irish Seed Savers aimed at helping teachers set up school gardens. We talked about the importance of people growing their own food, and the misconceptions around 'dirty' vegetables and unusually shaped vegetables, looking at how we've become obsessed with clean, straight vegetables, and we nearly won't eat anything that looks different to what our perception of what a carrot or a tomato is and looks like!  Check it out!

http://blog.doneganlandscaping.com/2011/11/25/the-sodshow-friday-25th-november-dublin-garden-radio-podcast/