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Nuts Whole Hazelnuts!

Posted in Articles on Nov 10th, 2007

Potentially Ireland’s most productive and sustainable source of proteinNuts whole hazelnuts! No don’t take them and cover them in chocolate. Plant them and get a bumper crop of high protein food within 5 years. The Hazel tree (Corylus avellana) and its cultivated relative, the Cobnut, is possibly the most neglected of our food producing plants [...]

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The Fruit and Nut Case

Posted in Articles on Sep 18th, 2007

THE FRUIT AND NUT CASE Growing fruit and nut trees for food crops   Imagine a forest, canopy trees interspersed with lower growing shrubs. It looks like any other, yet this forest grows not only timber, it grows food. This could be part of the future landscape of Ireland. In these times when more of [...]

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