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239: The Sodshow meets Michael McEvoy and Elaine Brown of GIY International Nov 27, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Brian Greene chats with Michael McEvoy and Elaine Brown, GIY International and GIY Ireland. After returning from England to his hometown of Belfast, Michael decided to set up his own GIY group in part, to get himself a little more in touch with his community.Elaine on the other hand has a slightly nomadic (as Brian calls it) touch to her travels but is more in line with making GIY (Grow it Yourself) international. With groups in Germany, Dorset, 40 thousand children and around 400 schools involved across the UK and Ireland and a remit – if you might call it that…. of growing, your own food….. this is literally a whirlwind of a conversation with 2 of the voices a little more behind the scenes, maybe, that might just encourage you to think that little bit differently doing something that can only make you smile. Love it. The Sodshow garden podcast airs every live Friday at 3pm and can be found just after in iTunes and all good podcast stores.

238: The Sodshow meets Hugh O’Hara and Chris Farrell of The Amber Springs and Ashdown Park Hotel Nov 20, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan heads to Wexford to meet head grower Hugh O’Hara and chief buyer Chris Farrell of The Amber Springs and Ashdown Park Hotel. Together they chat Hugh’s journey from horticultural college to head grower with the Redmond Hotel Group, to actually being able to provide all of the food grown crops required for 2 fully operational hotels 52 weeks of the year, his relationship with the chefs and the 22 acres of ground under his remit.

237: The Sodshow meets Professor Donal O’Shea. Obesity, Gardening and GIY Ireland Nov 12, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Professor Donal O’Shea. “Donal is a consultant endocrinologist and physician based in St Vincent’s University Hospital and St Columcilles Hospital. He is the principle investigator in a research group that currently focuses on the study of the health consequences of obesity”. You may recognise his voice a little better from RTE News, Primetime, The Saturday Night Show and RTE’s Operation Transformation and it is with thanks to the wonderful team from GIY Ireland that we have Donal on todays garden podcast. Together Peter and Donal chat his being a hopeless gardener, the mediterranean diet, GIY Ireland, how Ireland as a nation has moved from being the lightest country in Europe to becoming (85% of population) the fattest country (WHO) by 2030 and his work with a group of 100 children with an average age of 12 where the average weight is 16 stone/ 92 kilos. Why discuss obesity on The Sodshow (?) – as Donal notes it, physical activity and nutrition. That in mind we also chat the benefits of gardening, our relationship with food that you grow yourself, nutritional guidelines and how when walking the closer one is to nature the better it is for your health in more ways than one.

The Sodshow garden podcast airs every live Friday at 3pm and can be found just after in iTunes and all good podcast stores. The SodShow Online: Twitter: @SodShow Facebook: The SodShow

236: The Sodshow meets Neil Crossan, Living Green Organic Compost Nov 06, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan and Brian Greene chat with Neil Crosson of Living Green. The largest grower of worms (17 million in total) on the island of Ireland, more importantly Neil is the maker of Irelands first organic compost (made with 80% worm casts and 20% peat). Together Peter and Neil chat everything from why (seriously why ?) start this as a business, to what happens when your sister thinks she’s doing you a favour and turns all of the lights off in the sheds – to the moments you cried and the moment when after almost 15 years perfecting this product you realised you had turned a corner. Far more than just the story of compost making, this episode of the garden podcast is not to be missed. The Sodshow garden podcast airs every live Friday at 3pm and can be found in iTunes and all good podcast stores from 4pm. This weeks show with thanks to the lovely folks at GIY International for helping us put this one together.

235: The Sodshow meets Eoin Kearney of Glendalough Distillery Oct 30, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Eoin Kearney of Glendalough Distillery, an Irish craft whiskey (they also make gin) distillery set up in 2011. To the how this ended up on a garden podcast ? Eoin was originally selected to take part in the Bord Bia (the Irish Food and Horticulture promotional board)/ Smurfit fellowship programme before he joined the team. The master distillers also produce a wild botanical gin – one for every season – the plants of which are hand picked (foraging, if you will) from the Wicklow mountains. Of note in that wild plant selecting department the team work closely with Geraldine Kavanagh of Wild Wicklow Foods. We of course go a stage further to chatting about how they capture the flavours and scents from such plant life, what plants and as only Peter can do, St Kevin holding a blackbird, why 5 mates set up their own venture, the history of Poitín (an illegal beverage distilled from potatoes) made from malted barley and sugar beet….. the list is literally endless. The Sodshow garden podcast airs every live Friday at 3pm and can be found in iTunes and all good podcast stores from 4pm.

234: The Sodshow meets Jean-Pierre Lihou and Rodney Keogh of Bosch Garden Oct 23, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Rodney Keogh, Brands Manager DIY Retail and Jean-Pierre Lihou, Head of International Business Development Lawn and Garden Professional with Bosch.

@sodshow on twitter - sodshow.com - The Sodshow on facebook Over the last weeks over 3 shows (4, including this), we have tested and trialed approximately 3 pieces of Bosch equipment in bringing back into shape a one acre overgrowth of Peter’s own hedgerow. And though this interview possibly could have aired pre the start of that, I guess found it better to hear what the Jean-Pierre and Rodney had to say – and then – put it to the test.

From how Peter found out about the Bosch range and why a professional award winning landscape gardener (that’s still Peter as a by the way) might use a battery powered or electrical piece of equipment; to Battery powered lawnmowers (you read correctly) and just what the Bosch range is capable of doing. The Sodshow garden podcast can be found in iTunes and all good podcast stores from 4pm every Friday.

233: The Sodshow, Garden Podcast – Hedgerows, Hedges, Maintenance and Bosch – Part 3 Oct 16, 2015

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On this episode of The Sodshow garden podcast - this is part 3 of our mini episode on hedges and hedgerows and their maintenance - and Peter Donegan is back chatting with neighbour, garden enthusiast, fellow hedgerow walker and hedge maintainer Phil Murtagh.

Irish Hedgerows, Hedges, Maintenance and Bosch – Part 3 We delve into the Bosch ALB 30Li garden blower and go right under the bonnet of the Bosch AKE 30 Li battery powered chainsaw, from its charging times and what it is actually able cut to how we tried to break it (true) right the way down to the actual cost of usage and the amount of cuts per charge of battery; as versus a conventional saw.

This of note was the equipment used whilst maintaining the never before cut back one acre of hedgerows in Peters garden. With a cameo guest appearance from good friend and non gardener Anthony McGuinness this is another not to be missed jam packed garden podcast.

The Sodshow - Ireland's award winning garden podcast, can be found in iTunes and all good podcast stores from 3.30pm every Friday.

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232: The Sodshow meets Mark Diacono of Otter Farm Oct 05, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Mark Diacono, formerly of television famed River Cottage Farm where he lead the garden team, the author of too many books to mention and of more recent now, the head of his very own Otter Farm.

From doing jobs that he never really enjoyed having left school early to how 15 years ago having never grown before, he planted some spuds to impress his now wife - to the old duffers who garden, how he hates celery, cottage cheese and the thoughts of a world where Van Morrison is better than Jim Morrison; and (not finally.....) on a serious note to the new kitchen garden farm, distilling and his new venture of Otter Farm.

One of the nicest guys we have ever had on the garden podcast, this one was a real genuine pleasure and again, if you don't mind us patting ourselves on our back, this one is not to be missed.

Our thanks to the team at GIY Ireland for their help in setting this one up. Nice one lads. As always much X

The Sodshow garden podcast airs every live Friday at 3pm and can be found just after in iTunes and all good podcast stores. @sodshow on twitter - or - www.sodshow.com

231: Karen O’Donohoe, GIY Sep 30, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan meets Karen ODonohue of GIY International. For many the GIY (Grow It Yourself) movement needs no introduction, but it is logic enough to suggest that it is and has been the fastest growing collection of gardening folks this (or any) country has ever seen, over the shortest period of time (we get to the actual maths on that in an soon to be aired upcoming show with founder Mick Kelly) and, is showing no signs of slowing down. Over the next months this garden podcast will air a very mini collection of interviews with those steering this very fine chariot; of which Karen is the first.

Together Peter and Karen chat everything from permaculture and studying health promotion at the University of Bristol to a return move to East Cork, the setting up of a market with a twist, a local GIY group and then to a career in fundraising (or at least that is the title that held) with GIY international. Jam packed, not to be missed and a fantastic insight inside the brain of one of Irelands finest.

The Sodshow garden podcast airs every live Friday at 3pm and can be found just after in iTunes and all good podcast stores.

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230: The Sodshow meets John Noonan of Flahavans Sep 25, 2015

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On this weeks Sodshow Peter Donegan chats with John Noonan of Flahavans; a 7th generation Irish family food business based in Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford. On the go since 1785, according to Love Irish Food, Flahavan’s “is Ireland’s favourite porridge” with “over three million servings of Flahavan’s consumed nationwide each week”. Together Peter and John chat everything from the sourcing of their oats from within 60 miles of their mill to how they now sell in South Korea, 1200 stores in the United States; and the United Arab Emirates and from how porridge is scientifically proven good for you to their involvement with (former guests of The Sodshow) Origin Green. We also have an additional natter from our very own Caitriona Redmond alias Wholesome Ireland, being that the horticulture angle slightly aside, she knows how to make their product taste so much better than Peter an Brian ever (ever) could …… it is another jam packed garden podcast. With thanks to Bord Bia and Love Irish Food for their assistance in putting this interview together.

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