permakulchy's blog

I've just started a new blog Credit Crunch Cookbook which is a humble effort to provide information and tools for surviving and even thriving in the hard and challenging economic times in which we live. Or as the tag line reads "Recipes for surviving and thriving in hard economic times" - more like the "Anarchist's Cookbook" than recipes for preparing meals on a budget. Although if anyone has some good and "thrifty" vegetarian or vegan recipes please do send them on.

Travel back in time to Saturday June 9th when Les Skalopes played in McGirl's. For everyone who was there and those who weren't...

Pucheen has evolved from the Ballinamore Permaculture Group which started to show documentaries on a Tuesday night in McGirl's Bar, Ballinamore in early 2005. A diverse range of documentaries have been shown on all aspects of low-impact, sustainable living in the meantime.

One of the first film's we showed was Alcohol Can Be A Gas which describes how alcohol can be used as a fuel and how in fact, it was the original fuel used in combustion engines. The documentary covers much more in it's 150 minutes including permaculture techniques, growing crops for alcohol production, brewing and distilling alcohol, how to adjust your engine to run efficiently on alcohol and much more. Poteen (poitín as Gaeilge) started to become a theme...