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Clarenbridge Lifestyle and Garden Centre will host a composting demonstration this Saturday. The event, organised in association with the Galway County Council and Clarenbridge Tidy Towns committee, follows a previous very successful composting event at the centre.

This week I am going to talk about composting of garden and kitchen waste. Now people are starting to think about composting their waste in the garden as the leaves are starting to fall off the trees.

As the growing season slows down and prepares to rest for the winter months ahead, gardening takes a change of direction. Foliage is beginning to change coats, putting on its rust and red shades of autumn; annual bedding plants are dying off while perennials on the other hand are storing up food supplies for the dormant season ahead. All things considered autumn enters and leaves in a blaze of colour.

Members of the Irish Organic Farmers & Growers Association (IOFGA) from Westmeath did particularly well at the recent SHOP awards ceremony held in the RDS, with a Mullingar organic dairy farm and an Athlone organic meat producer among the big winners.

The demand for organic food could decrease in Ireland if we consumers follow a similar trend as our British counterparts.

Santa Claus has come and gone for the Green party. Good old Saint Nick delivered them into a government coalition, giving them seats at the cabinet table, chauffeur driven cars, a handful of ministerial announcements and a brand new fold away bicycle for Sergeant Trevor that fits comfortably in the boot of a state car.

Top Irish landscape designer and horticulturist Mark Grehan has the ultimate top 10 tips to ensure your garden is in full bloom this summer without breaking the bank.

With the arrival of school holidays and good weather, this is the perfect time to promote a passion for the outdoors in children. The cool wet month of May has resulted in a late growing season, which means there is still plenty of time to start growing flowers and vegetables.

Home composting workshops, organised by Westmeath County Council, are to be held in Athlone and Mullingar in the coming weeks.

A Westmeath dairy farm, Moon Shine Dairy Farm, has once again swept the boards in the 2009 National Organic Awards, picking up the top overall award for its new Moon Shine Milk product, a bottled non-homogenised farmhouse milk.