Midlands Home and Garden Festival 2010

This weekend I'll be speaking at the Midlands Home and Garden Festival 2010, taking place in Belvedere, Mullingar, Co Westmeath.

I'll be speaking on Sunday at 4:00pm - I'll be talking about gardening with kids. Maybe I'll see you there?

Twittering

OK, I have succumbed to twittering. You can follow me at GreenAnnaBrowne.

I've been asked to develop a course for people starting their own business, in building an online presence. So I need to get my head around the twitter end of things, though it always felt a bit twitchy for me. I have to say I'm enjoying it....

On the Telly - again :-)

This time just the blog featured, on TV3 am this morning. Here's the link if you'd like to see it.


And welcome to anyone here as a result of the TV3 plug!

Plant sale - date for your diary

On Saturday, June 13th, there will be a School fund raiser for Educate Together National school. Starting at around 2:30, it takes place on the ground of the school, beside the mullingar harriers club and Ardleigh.

With 5th class, we have been preparing lots of interesting plants, and they will be for sale on the day. Lots of delicious food, games, child friendly atmosphere. All welcome - hope to see you there!

Glenisk Seed Giveaway

Glenisk have teamed up with The Organic Center and are giving away 10,000 free packets of organic vegetable seeds. More information is available here.

As a special incentive for followers of this blog, any of you who sign up to get their free seeds and quote the code: grownyourown01 (enter this in the partner section) will also be entered into a draw for a goody bag with a month’s supply of our organic yogurts.

The seeds on offer are french beans, so even if you don't want to grow some of them this year, sign up and pass on the seeds to a school or community garden. And keep your fingers crossed for mild weather!

Learning never tasted so good

If you didn't catch the slot on New2Day on RTE 2, or at the end of the SixOne news, here's the link to the video archive.

It's a wrap!

The filming is finished, and the segment should air tomorrow Tuesday 24th, on RTE 2 on the news slot before the den - 4:50pm or so. Can't wait to see how it turns out - we had a great time making it!

TV update

All going well, the team from RTE will arrive at METNS at 12 on Monday, and the spot will air on the kids news show before the Den on RTE 2 at 4:50 or so, and then again as part of 6one on RTE 1. I'll update again on Monday, after I come back to earth...

RTE coming!

Looks like RTE's midland correspondent - Ciaran Mulooley - will be visiting us (METNS) on Monday to see what the students have been learning about gardening. No idea when it will be broadcast - and kind of don't believe that it will really happen- watch this space for updates!