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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

There is so much to pick in the hedgerows and shores. Rowan berries for schnapps, apples, and blackberries for a cake and sugar kelp for crisps. It's a great time of the year for wild food

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This is my annual reminder to pick blackberries above the P Line What is the P Line I hear you ask? Well, think about the height of the average dog, his hind leg .... .. and pick above that 😉

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The Connemara Bog to Bay Food Tour is 24th-28th August. Join me as we meet oyster farmers, learn how to smoke salmon, walk castle grounds, enjoy sheep dog trials,taste grest local produce,and enjoy chats and the craic. Staying in Renvyle House Hotel, there is no single supplement for solo travellers

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I've started a weekly reel on insta - Green Bites - tiny tales of plants and plates, where I share interesting stories about the plants I grow or forage and different dishes I cook and enjoy. Courgette or zucchini is this week's topic www.instagram.com/reel/DLur5aM...

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Had a few ripe lemons in the glasshouse and lots of lovely lemon verbena, so I dug out Mary Berrys drizzle cake recipe. It never disappoints. Using organic lemons ensures the zest is just that rather than the chemical coating on conventional lemons

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Really enjoyed spending the day with these wonderful women on a food and culture tour of the Burren

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's gooseberry season. Picked one bush clean yesterday, and I found the last few elderflower heads to make compot. The flavour is amazing

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It's the eve of Mayday, so gather a few flowers and leave them on your doorstep. In Irish folklore, the fairies are active tonight, but they won't cross the sweet flowers, so your home will have good luck

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The birdsong on this wee video is fabulous. It's a magical time of year, and I am so grateful to have beautiful old woods that I can enjoy walks with Willow in and gather wild food

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Todays salad is entirely from the garden. Lettuce, spinach, dandelions, pea shoots, viola flowers, swede flowers and chives. #growyourownfood

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Blue skies, the smell of gorse fills the air and quiet boreens to walk Willow. Life is good

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It's wonderful to see the variety of pollinators on the apple blossoms. Without pollinators we'd have no apples or other fruits. They may fly on to other flowers like dandelions. If these are sprayed with glyphosate the pollinator will die. No pollinators=no fruit for us

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The best Easter eggs. Beannachtaí na Cásca ort. Happy Easter #speirgorm

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

First spinach harvest of the season.

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

These four ladies are enjoying semi retirement with me now their time at the organic egg farm is over.They will no longer lay enough eggs to be commercially viable but are perfect for me. Willow is still sizing them up

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

What a lovely day I had with this family. On our food tour, they went foraging, tasted amazing food, met a local grower, and watched cheese being made. The blue skies were a bonus #foodtours

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I love my life! I was speaking to guests on a food tour yesterday about sheep farming when we had to stop to let these ewes pass. Timing is everything #ireland

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You can see the outline of the lazy beds that would have grown the potatoes and vegetables for families. We were practising no dig over a hundred years ago #Ireland

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me and my inner child had a great chat with Paddington in Westport #mayo

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Stumbled into a lovely traditional pub in Connemara recently. The toasted sandwich in a bag took me back twenty years. Coupled with a pot of strong tea and an open fire, we had a grand afternoon #retro

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Pollinators are enjoying dandelions as an early food source. The entire plant is edible, but I only pick the leaves for guests on my foraging walks as I don't want to take such a vital food source away from the pollinators #foraging

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Another round of wild garlic pesto made and bottled. I'm wondering if the influx of invitations to visit friends has more to do with these jars than my sparkling personality 😄

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The garden continues to feed us. ##growyourownfood

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Full Irish breakfast for St Patricks Day Every element from the ingredients for the homemade brown bread to the Irish cheese in the wild garlic pesto is Irish. #loveirishfood

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Growing up, St. Patrick's Day was all about my Ma. It was her birthday. I'll remember her today by doing two of her favourite activities - gardening and enjoying dessert! Lá Fhéile Phádraig sona daoibh go léir. 🇮🇪 Happy St Patrick's Day to all

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

You meet all sorts on a walk in Connemara #ireland

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sláinte on International Women’s Day

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My least favourite job in the garden is washing the glasshouse. It's a cold,wet, messy job. But at the end of the few hours it's really satisfying to see the clean glass. The significant increase in light will really benefit the plants.

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Love this Baínín Vest which is filled with felted noil from Galway sheep. Noil is the shirt fibre removed during the combing process of spinning. The vest was designed and made by Annika Joachim & Fabienne Rako funded by the EU

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Welcome, March. Looking forward to blue skies, a little warmth in the sun, longer evenings, spring flowers, bird song, and new growth everywhere

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

It was lovely to bring a group to Corcomroe Abbey yesterday. While my tours have a strong focus on food and farming, I enjoy sharing different aspects of our culture with guests. The 12th Century Abbey is well worth a visit if you are in the Burren

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Sourdough bagels, boiled, baked, and ready for breakfast. I love Saturday mornings

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Wild garlic shoots are appearing in our woodlands. My favourite patch is in a local wood that was ravaged in the recent storms. I went there yesterday to see if the patch was still accessible and despite having to navigate lots of fallen trees I was delighted to see these shoots

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Set up a new phone last night and can't access my account on the other place. Maybe this is a sign to leave

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Crocus in flower brightens the day

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I really have to stop watching medical dramas late at night. Some of the surgeries I performed in my dreams didn't have good outcomes

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Just imagine these tiny seedlings will produce lovely, tasty, organic tomatoes in just a few months.

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Twenty five years ago I wrapped up my last pack of cigarettes with a big red heart and gave them to my husband for Valentines Day with a promise that I was quitting. While it was meant to be a gift to him it was the best gift I ever gave myself

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

'Love loves to love love' James Joyce

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A few years after my husband died my friend invited me over to her house for Valentines so I wouldn't be on my own. Her husband who had given her roses and chocs gave me a lovely bunch of daffodils and said everyone should enjoy flowers on the day. Good friends are to be cherished

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Looking forward to liver and onions for dinner tonight. Do you eat offal?

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

While the skies are grey today in Connemara these little beauties brighten the day

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Another beautiful day in Connemara. I had to stop several times on the drive to Clifden just to admire the beauty #Ireland

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It's great to see spring growth again. I picked scurvy grass yesterday along the rocky shore. It has a peppery/wasbi flavour. I now include foraging walks in most of my food tours and love sharing stories and folklore about our native plants and flowers

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Day three with no power after #StormÉowyn. Glad I have a little gas camping ring and the hens are laying. Lots of roof damage but all fixable. Most importantly myself and all the menagerie are safe as are all my friends and family all over Ireland 🇮🇪

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I needed a loaf of bread but I just can't turn the oven on to bake one item so I baked two tea bracks and four porridge breads. The bracks were a great way to use up dried fruit left over from Christmas baking. Waste not, want not

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Lovely carrots from the glasshouse for tonights stir fry. I'll need to harvest them all over the next few weeks so I can get the glasshouse cleaned and fertilised for this years vegetables #growyourownfood

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sunday seed survey! Going through last years seeds and seeing what's worth keeping and what I need to buy. I know I'll be tempted to get a few new varieties when I start browsing the catalogues What are you growing this year? #growyourownfood

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Margaret Leahy @margaretleahy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Gathering rushes to make a few Brigid's crosses for friends and of course one for my own home. The distinctive design, made from woven rushes, is thought to keep evil, fire and hunger from the home. #tradition

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