SPUDS 2013 – We need your data!
As most of you know, SPUDS, the sustainable potatoes united development study, was launched in 2012. This community based action research project gave away naturally blight resistant potato seed to...
View ArticleWhat next on Sitric Road? Art and Livability – leave your tag below
A few months ago Dublin City Council (DCC) removed quotes painted by local publishing house Lilliput Press from a wall located at the southern end our street, Sitric Road in Dublin 7, due to local...
View ArticleA mile long exhibition that generates Energy?
A collaborative project between New York City Parks Department and the Land Art Generator Initiative, currently on exhibition at the ‘Arsenal’ Building, 64th Street and Central Park East, New York...
View ArticlePotatoes with Purpose – The Story of SPUDS
The SPUDS project is harvesting. A new short film created by Eavan Aitken and Greg Dunne of Stoneybutter to promote the SPUDS project, is now online. Potatoes with Purpose: the Story of SPUDS, was...
View ArticleWalking Lifeline Territory with Nathan Hugh-O’Donnell
In May, writer Nathan O’Donnell and desireland director Kaethe Burt-O’Dea took a walk through Lifeline territory. Beginning at Broombridge train station and following the route of the Midland Great...
View ArticleLifeline Project Bí & the Bait Hive Initiative
Bait Hives are enticing things. Every summer, as bee hives reach capacity, new swarms have to break away and found new colonies. For beekeepers this is an opportunity. Bait Hives are man-made devices:...
View ArticleWe at Bí are both humbled and inspired!
We at Bí are enormously indebted to the outstanding team of creatives who contributed to the development of our exotic, ethical & local ‘BÍ’ product range, this Christmas, Aaron Whelan (graphics),...
View ArticleLifeline Project Bí Bumblebee Monitoring Workshop
Desireland’s first public Lifeline Project Bí Event will take Place at 1pm on April 2nd at Block T in Smithfield, Dublin 7. The first ever assessment of all Europe’s 1,965 bee species finds them in...
View ArticleHonouring Turlough Butler O’Bryen – The Bí Tent at St Anne’s Park
“What else can we plant in addition to lavender to attract bees to our garden?” “What are the different varieties of bees in Ireland?” “What is the point of a bait hive?” These were some of the...
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