Being able to pluck fruit from your own backyard or balcony to cook with and eat is one of the greatest joys of growing your ...

“Trees vanish very quickly, and a clump that has taken years to grow is gone in a day.” These words, written 127 years ago this month by Lady Augusta Gregory, acquired renewed resonance after ...

Of the 11 per cent of Ireland that is covered in trees, the vast majority of this is in monocultures of non-native conifer species that do nothing for wildlife. The Irish landscape is now ...