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Here are some top tips from safefood for a lovely summer barbecue:

Encouraging small scale food production is a laudable mission statement for a small organisation based in rural County Galway. Poultry keeping, fruit and vegetable growing, and even building and cooking with clay ovens are all on the Kinvara Sustainable Living menu. Anna Jeffrey Gibson and Lynn O’Keeffe-Lascar have added a new series of one day courses to their popular evening classes.

Everyone is more aware of heating systems since the recent cold spell and Sustainable Energy Ireland is still offering a grant of €700 to upgrade your oil boiler and heating controls. These new condensing oil boilers are 30 per cent more efficient than your existing oil boiler. That’s a saving of €300 on every €1,000 spent on oil.

The Aga Shop Galway in the Liosban Retail Park launches the 100th anniversary collection of La Cornue elegant kitchen range cookers in the west of Ireland with an open day on Saturday July 26.

New to the market, this charming recently refurbished two bedroom ground floor apartment is located in Frenchpark Oranmore.

This impressive, eco friendly, c3,000sq ft home is situated on one acre of land with views of the Burren and Aughinish Bay to the front with a south facing aspect, incorporating beautifully landscaped gardens and with a double garage to the rear. This is a passive type house and comes with a 10 year HomeBond structural guarantee and has a super efficient BER rating of A2, which is more than twice as efficient as the required energy rating for new dwellings.

The kitchen is sometimes described as the soul of the house. It is where food that nourishes the residents get cleaned, prepared, cooked, and stored.

Now that we seem to be getting some reasonable weather most people will be hoping to have a barbecue, or indeed several barbecues. There are two major problems with this great idea; the weather and cooking the food perfectly for you and your guests. An open sided gazebo will help with the vagaries of the weather as it can act as a shield against the blazing sun or provide shelter from a shower. As far as getting the cooking right, the single best advice is to precook most of the items. I was invited to a barbecue recently by one of the top chefs in Galway and I asked him for some tips on how to get it right.

This is a superbly designed modern residence in which country living meets contemporary elegance and understated glamour combines with high-tech facilities.

With close to 30 years of experience in the coffee and tea business, Bewley’s master coffee roaster Paul O’Toole has created some preparation tips and techniques to help you enjoy real fresh coffee. You can find roast and ground coffee in packs in nearly every supermarket across the country, so why not give it a try and enjoy a real coffee experience. Choose coffee that is 100 per cent Arabica, which is the highest grade of coffee available.