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• Referral from February 21, 2021
  

  kingjoshington asked:

  Any (legitimately) free horticulture classes? I saw the idea from a post years ago, but, does anyone know any academic sources where I could start learning about plants. I live in France but am a native English speaker. I will eventually have to do some sort of certification plan, probably in a year from now. But, I would like to start learning about plant biology, identification, and mostly about flowers. I am looking to change careers and become a florist, but I have only an aptitude, no knowledge. Any help would be very nice. Everything I've found so far is either "youtube fluff" or leads you directly into a (pricey!) paid online diploma.

  

  ItsSimpleSimon replied:

  Have a look at the royal horticulture society website, you can access a lot of past exam paper's, it will give you an idea of what you are going to studying. Here in Ireland the Government run training is based on the RHS. It can be accessed => https://www.teagasc.ie/ This is a link for the national botanic gardens they have online course's http://botanicgardens.ie/

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• Referral from January 22, 2016
  

  Pól O. asked:

  Hi, with Christmas behind us we need to look forward to 2016 and the possibility of Apple coming to Athenry. Although personally, I fully support their enterprise here, some of the objections and concerns had a firm basis and a lot of thought behind them. A lot of others, didn't. With that, I set about trying to understand better and came across a few individuals who had built a vast knowledge about the main issues. Most just want clarity with a very small number outright objecting (this is only considering those who had a firm basis of objection which i don't believe all objectors have). There are concerns outstanding, listed below, that Apple, energy suppliers and the government need to address. However for them to do so before the ABP ruling at the end of this month, would be unwise. I would like to thank all that has helped incl. those mentioned above, particularly Peter Feeney, Ciaran Cannon, and Lorraine Higgins who have, at least partially restored some of my small faith in politics ;-) We look forward to the ABP decision and hope to stand One Community- Together. Here are the main concerns/ objections (There were many more but this were the top ones that have basis) 1. Power Supply- although incredibly efficient, the plant will in fact use a considerable % of Ireland's power supply. pylons/ underground? new power station? etc? 2. Water Table/ supply- local flooding is a problem that runs deep with underground waterways in the area, which used to be the local supply to households and farms up to the late 90s when we got mains 3. Blasting- there is a quarry locally who have been blamed for house/ wter table damage due to blasting. Apple may need to use blasting during construction 4. Construction traffic/ noise- Apple are looking to build one unit of an 8 unit development. this will mean increased construction in the area for years to come. 5 Industrialising the area- Will the area become a new 'Parkmore' when we want to live in a rural setting? what guarantees to we have on this? Thank you All Paul

  

  Brian R. replied:

  Paul Keane I am very glad you put this list up - especially point No.2. The hydrology below ground in this area of Galway is very poorly undrestood. Equally the soils ability to soak up/hold water is very low as they are shallow (the reason the forestry is there in the first place) http://gis.teagasc.ie/soils/soilguide.php?series_id=1150KF

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