Kate Burrows began weaving baskets while living deep in the woods in a handmade strawbale and cob roundhouse.
Natural crafts and natural living on the land has always been Kates passion throughout life.
Herself and husband Alan built their own home, keep goats, chickens and geese and grow all their own food. Now living out on the bogs in Ballinlough, County Roscommon, Kate has perfected her craft to make many different types of basket for commissions, market stalls, shows and festivals, she also gives talks and demonstrations, and teaches basketry workshops all over the country.
Her latest venture is weaving natural willow coffins using her home grown irish willows planted throughout her land. Kate will be inviting people into her workshop to help take part in weaving their loved ones coffins if they so wish to, taking part in creating a really special final resting place for their beloveds final journey can be a great comfort.
Grow It Bio is small family business based in Co.Meath, run by Tomas and Monika Novak, producing and supplying gardening products that support biodiversity such Irish organic plant feeds, Handmade bee hotels, Irish native wildflowers, bird food and more. Tomas and Monika are passionate about nature, biodiversity and environment so since 2021 they started to plant Irish native trees for every order.
Science has proven that our thoughts have the power to change our external reality and now we have the opportunity to make practical use of that knowledge to transform our own lives and shape the future of humanity itself. We have the potential to write a new story in which world peace is not just an impossible dream but becomes a very real possibility. When we understand the world around us to be a mirror of our own inner state we grasp the urgency to take action to develop greater harmony within us. As we do that we open up the opportunity to write a new story for our own lives where we become the conscious creators of our own reality.
🌿I challenge you to phantom plant a tree! Anywhere, anytime, any place🌱
Lets make it a trend to love our home and create urban orchards for everyone.
The Phantom Planters is a group for all Phantom Planters, Guerrilla Gardeners, nature and community lovers to share their knowledge, exchange ideas on how to create fruit forests in our communities, reforest the landscape and generally unite us as a people to spread the ripples of love across our lands.
We can do this guys, I know we can!.
It’s not up to anyone else, it’s up to us as Individuals.
Food, water, clothes, shelter and a loving and compassionate community is all we need to survive, thrive and be alive happily! Better to ask for forgiveness than permission😎 Happy phantom planting!
Súil an Craic is the second iteration of an independently organised, multi-layered journey of exploration and re-discovery of the land, which seeks to open up routes for long-term pilgrimages through our ancient culture and richly varied landscape.
From his birthplace in Tory Island, down to the final resting place of his foster mother in Loughcrew, we are following the legends and deeds of Lugh Lamhfada, the champion of light who brought about change and freedom to the Tuatha Dé Dannan by defeating the Fomorians; dark beings whose greed and disregard for the Land herself knew no limits.
In association with the All is Well initiative, our route involves restoration and cleaning of ancient holy wells along the way, allowing Water to lead our path and remind communities of the importance of water care.
We’ll visit meaningful ancient sites, seeking to boost interest in lore and heritage, engaging with local communities to encourage indigenous tourism, fostering awareness about the state of our ecology, providing opportunities for guest experts to share their knowledge along the way… and ah, sure, have some craic while we’re at it.
Súil an Craic took three months to complete the 500 mile walk from Tory Island to Loughcrew in Co. Meath. People interested in learning about our heritage, lore and land ecology participated all along the route. Some came to walk, others supported with knowledge or practical help to undertake this venture. Every few days the walk would stop at pivotal places along the story of Lugh Lamhfada, a holy well or ancient sacred site. Here, experts and people in the local area would come to spend a few days in this people participation of learning about the local areas, and actively maintaining the spaces.
Outreach: (Where relevant) How was the event broadcast to a
audience before and after the event.
Before the walk, we co-created with irish artist Sean Fitzgerald to design a graphic map to raise awareness over social media. This post reached 76,304 views with 368 shares.
A amazing logo and paper flyer was created and donated by Seamus Draoigall of Deercún which was invaluable in explaining the project to people we met along route
There was a revival off the Facebook page. In June 2020 there were 943 members with steady substantial growth to the present. That group now supports 1437 members with new requests every day. 1,041of these are Active Members.
A website to support the walk and future projects relating to Irish diaspora in contemporary forms was created. This can be viewed at Fairycouncil.ie
Many interviews were undertaken before, during and after the walk. To date, there has been an interview for a book, 3 podcasts, 2 puppets with online forums, parish newspapers and local Westmeath newspaper. Some of these have yet to be released.
Graphic Artist Daniel Fagan created two amazing pieces of art to help portray the story of Lugh
Indicator of Success: By what measure can the project have been judged to be a success?
We would measure our success by the growth of active participation that undertaking the walk encouraged. We have gained deep connection with the land and all we met
We walked over 500 miles raising awareness in challenging times
We crossed the second most difficult mountain range in Ireland
Guest Speakers of various expertise contributed, Breezy Kelly of Bake Bread for Peace, award-winning Irish storyteller and contributor to The Folklore Society of Ireland Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair, Brian Lacey writer of Lug’s Forgotten Donegal Kingdom: The Archaeology, History and Folklore of the Sil Lugdach of Cloghaneely, Lar Dooley, advocate of indigenous Ireland, Artist and Author of Out of the Darkness, Dessie McCallion from Inishowen Tours and local historian, and Kathleen O Hara from the Edge School
There was online support and communication with Anthony Murphy from Mythological Ireland, and Martin Byrne of Carrowkeel.com on an advisory level towards the following of the myth.
Over 500 hardcopy flyers were distributed to the wider public
When St. Bridgets Well in Killare, Co Meath was being cleaned by the walkers, there were up to 20 local participants that came to volunteer work over the week period being there.
At the rest points along the walk, up to 50 people a day would flow through to support the concept of the walk.
We cleaned and raised awareness of many wells and ancient sites along the route.
Recognition from local Parishes in the careship of the local well.
The landowner of Uisneach now recognises St Bridget’s Well in Killare as part of the site he cares for and has agreed to the maintenance of the well.
The facebook and instagram is still receiving daily membership requests
We have noticed significant growth on the seed sister project All is Well
Have you attached/sent any photos or other evidence of the event/project? (newspaper articles, social media screen-shots, documents produced, other products etc)
contribution in portraying the journey undertaken. Lugh and the Walkers at the base of Muckish Mountain, start of the seven sister mountain range. This is reputed to be the second most difficult mountain range in Ireland. The second image portrays the arrival and completion of the walk into the Cailleachs home of Loughcrew in Meath.
What would you do differently if you could do this project/event again?
We feel that we are setting strong foundations to exciting people to actively participate in the maintaining and careship of the ecology of this land by utilizing the strong legends we have. This is an ongoing and far reaching project whose full potential has yet to be achieved.
Each year that we undertake this task, we become more organised in how to do so. We realised there were some organisational protocols that we failed to put into place before we started walking. If we undertake this particular project again we aim to learn from this second alliteration to enable us to reach and include even more people with more efficient cohesion.
Our vision is to essentially bring together singles (or people in mutually-consentual open relationships) in Ireland who are good and lovely people, so that they might find a partner with similar life goals and values… values such as those associated with permaculture/gardening, off-grid/sustainable living, natural building, nomadic tendencies (vanlife!), spirituality/self-improvement, the great outdoors and an appreciation of nature. Creatives, thinkers, dreamers and doers; you are all welcome 🙂 This is an LGBT+ friendly space, inclusive of all genders and mutually consensual relationships styles. We expect all members to be welcoming and inclusive of all other members and to treat all others with respect. We invite you to introduce a bit about yourself and share one or more photos, describe who you are in this world, and let people know what you’re looking for. Put it out to the [earthy soul mates] universe!Perhaps you’re not too sure if you want a long-term relationship, but you might be open to it if you met the right person, that’s also alright! Many people prefer to build friendships first and hope that they might be pleasantly surprised by what organically grows from it (pun intended!). Please feel free to start conversation threads and get the chatting going!!
“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land”
Warsan Shire
We are dedicated to bring Whistles ,Tents Sleeping bags and other Aid to Refugee camps around the world.
As a great lady once taught me! If people don’t like music, animals and children, then they have no soul. Music is important, it changes thinking, it influences everybody, it can bring back emotions, hurt and heal. Music has no boundaries. Music in the soul can be heard in the universe.
This project came about through a collective group of music loving humanitarians. It is ironic how the tents that were collected came from music lovers attending festivals, but who chose to discard items that could benefit others. We aim to hold a fundraiser to allow our volunteers to actually deliver aid, along with education. Whistles for Refugees came about as it is the most portable instrument and can be tucked even in a pocket. We have an experienced group of volunteers who have experienced life and how music shaped that life. We have a great team of people on board who want to make a change. Our aim through compassion, music, art and poetry is to bring joy and education to others.
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