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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...

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What 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...

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A 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...

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Potatoes 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...

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Walking 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...

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Lifeline 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:...

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We 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),...

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Lifeline 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...

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Honouring 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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