Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 42 – Leaf Mulching With Ballyphehane Tidy Towns
Did You Know: Leaf mulching is a free and easy way to create compost for flower beds and planters. It’s a cheap and easy way to get nutrients, organic minerals into the soil and it reduces water loss in soil. Raised beds lose more water than plants in the ground, so the leaves retain any […]
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 42 – Leaf Mulching With Ballyphehane Tidy Towns
Listen back to this week’s episode as Elaine Chats to Eilish, the Biodiversity Officer for Ballyphehane Tidy Towns about their plans for leaf mulching. For more in this series listen in to Cork’s Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 41 – Reforest Nation
Did You Know: Reforest Nation is set to plant 1 million trees in Ireland. It was set up in 2021 by Gearóid McEvoy due to boredom while in lockdown. He, his father and friends planted 5,000 trees in their first year. Now they have volunteers around Ireland who together after 3 years are set reach […]
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 41 – Reforest Nation
Listen back to this week’s episode as Elaine chats with Gearóid McEvoy – founder of Reforest Nation, a project set to plant 1 million trees in Ireland. For more in this series listen in to Cork’s Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 40 – The Pure Project
Did You Know: Pure (Protecting Uplands & Rural Environments) is an environmental project established to combat the increase of illegal dumping/fly-tipping in the Wicklow/Dublin uplands and was officially launched in September 2006. They now have 3,500 volunteers taking ownership of the area to stop illegal dumping. Sine they started they have collected over 4 MILLION […]
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 40 – The PURE Project
Listen back to this week’s episode as Elaine finds out about the Pure (Protecting Uplands & Rural Environments) environmental project in Cork. For more in this series listen in to Cork’s Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 39 – Hospitality Sustainability
Did You Know: Trigon Hotels has launched an initiative aimed at reducing food waste by 20% at its two properties in Cork – The Metropole Hotel and the Cork International Hotel. It is also aiming to reduce it’s plastic use and carbon footprint. The hotel group has created a 2024 Food Charter which outlines 10 […]
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly episode 39 – Hospitality Sustainability
Listen back to this week’s episode as Elaine chats with Alex Petit, Group Executive Chef at Trigon Hotels about their 10 commitments to sustainable hospitality. For more in this series listen in to Cork’s Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Tips 37 – The Greagh
Did You Know: The Gearagh just outside Macroom in Cork is one of four inland river deltas in the world. The others are in Ecuador, Botswana and Czech Republic. The Geargh dates back to ice age. It’s a place of unique landscape, biodiversity and ecological importance. There are over 200 tree and plant species like […]
Cork’s Red FM – Weekly Episode 37 – The Greagh
Listen back to this week’s episode as Elaine chats with Harriet Burgess, Green Party Councillor about The Gearagh which formed during the ice age. For more in this series listen in to Cork’s Red FM every Monday at 8.50pm.
