permakulchy's blog

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...