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Caitriona Kelly; Practising What I Teach

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Caitriona Kelly; Practising What I Teach

By engaging in the simple act of sowing seeds, the feeling of low-level anxiety that I’d been experiencing, had dissipated. By the time I’d sown twelve trays, the energy in my body had shifted, and my mind had had a chance to rest, the loop interrupted.

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Snow Day Discount for GIY Shop

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Snow Day Discount for GIY Shop

Bring your laptop/tablet and milkshake into your bread fort and take advantage of our Snow Day Discount. 

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Spring is in the air

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Spring is in the air

The garden should be a refuge from the unnatural pressures of much of contemporary society, not an additional source of mental conflict.

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Control your urges to avoid premature germination.

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Control your urges to avoid premature germination.

"Seeds sown too early either outside, struggle miserably, emerging into a cold, damp world or, inside where they germinate happily but are too advanced to be transplanted out into a world of frosts and winds."

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Ten things to do to start growing food.

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Ten things to do to start growing food.

“Sure I wouldn’t know where to start”, one of the most common reasons people give us for not growing food. And fair enough, where do you start with growing food? Right here, that’s where.

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