Workshops
Various workshops will be hosted by individuals and agencies promoting environmental improvements.
Centre for Environmental Living and Training
 CELT is a community group and registered charity involved in:- Ecology, Nature conservation, Traditional skills, Environmental education, Training, Renewable energy, Wildlife, Sustainable Woodland management, Native trees, Willow-work, Lime / Hemp Plastering, Woodcarving, Sugan chair making, Thatching, Blacksmith, Copper/Tinsmith, Coppice crafts, Footwear making, Native Tree Nursery and planting, Schools projects, Herbs, Canoe building, Yurt construction and more !
www.celtnet.org
 ENFO is a public service which provides easy access to wide-ranging and authoritative information on the environment, including sustainable development.
It was established in 1990 by the Department of the Environment Heritage,and Local Government.
http://www.enfo.ie
 Hosted by Dale Treadwell of RTE 2's The Den. Dale will run a number of workshops for children (and adults) on wildlife and nature trails in the local area. Check this website
 Crann was launched on World Environment Day, June 5, 1986.
The motivation behind the organization was to put broadleaved trees back on the agenda so that Ireland could at some stage in the future become self sufficient in all of its timber needs.
http://www.crann.ie
A complimentary and alternative medicine. Naturopathic practices include amongst others herbalism, manual therapy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, counseling and hydrotherapy. Practitioners emphasize a holistic approach to patient care.
http://www.naturopathy.ie
Learn how to design a kitchen garden and grow your own organic food. This simple garden design can fit in perfectly with most back lawn designs and will offer you an opportunity to grow healthy and nutritious vegetables. You will aslo learn crop rotation principles.
Learn how your daily lifestyle affects the planet and how simple steps you can make will help reduce your carbon footprint.
Learn the wonder of beekeeping and producing your own honey. Bees are essential for cross pollination and reproduction in plants.
Take a walk around the castle grounds and in Slieve Bloom Environment Park see an informative display of the native trees in Ireland and some introduced exotic plants. Excursions to Silver River Nature Trail in nearby Cadamstown.
An Indonesian form of meditation and dance for kids and adults
Learn how using biofuels helps us to reduce our carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, by providing an alternative to fossil fuels.
Up to the early 1900's hemp was one of the world's most significant crops. Three quarters of the world's paper and the majority of twine, rope, ship sails, rigging and nets were made from hemp fibre. Hemp oil was the most widely used oil for lighting. However, around the 1930's, hemp as an agricultural crop, all but disappeared from world markets. This coincided with the US banning of marijuana and the release of the first "plastic fibre" by Dupont. So in the space of a century hemp has gone from one of the world's most widely used industrial crops to one which is only recognised as a source of an illicit narcotic (Hever, 1995).
http://www.teagasc.ie/research/reports/crops/4487/eopr-4487.htm
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