Horizons

Meet the cluckers
The Complete Poultry and Vegetable Show will be held in Larchill Arcadian Garden, Kilcock, Co Kildare, next Saturday, May 8th, from 11am to 5pm. Experts will give advice on breeding and rearing chickens, and there will be chances to buy and sell hens, geese, ducks and other more exotic fowl. There will also be opportunities to find out about bee-keeping and growing your own vegetables, and to buy tools, trendy chicken houses, herbs and fruit trees.

Admission is €7 (children free), which includes entrance to the beautiful gardens, with their exotic collection of fowl, emus and llamas. See larchill.ie or telephone 01-6287354.

Sustainable funding

This year’s Comhar Sustainable Development Council Media Fund is focusing on four themes: climate change and clean energy; building sustainable communities; building the green economy; and biodiversity and natural resources. The fund was set up three years ago to support coverage of sustainability in the media, and is open to media groups, journalists or media students. Collaborative applications (eg, a photographer and a print journalist) are also accepted. Deadline for receipt of applications is June 18th. A workshop for those interested in applying will be held on June 1st. For application forms, see comharsdc.ie.

Ideas to bounce off

A green business which proposes to turn waste tyres into roadside kerbs, signs and other items won €10,000 at the 60 Green Minutes Competition run by rx3 (rethink, remake, recycle) in Dublin earlier this week.

Seryt Eco Manufacturing beat off the challenges of other businesses which proposed making children’s swings from industrial off-cuts, cellulose insulation from newsprint and designer office and home furniture from cardboard.

More than 300 delegates attended the Sustainable Innovation Forum at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin. See rx3.ie.

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