{"id":54,"date":"2017-04-21T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T14:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-05-21T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T14:35:57","slug":"it-wasnt-just-work-at-the-msc-ccafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/2017\/04\/21\/it-wasnt-just-work-at-the-msc-ccafs\/","title":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t just work at the MsC CCAFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All work and no play makes Homer go crazy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February the CCAFS society and the Organic Gardening Society went on a weekend trip ( organised my myself) out to Letterfrack in Connemara.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On a bright Saturday at a remote beach we had a fantastic lesson on edible seaweed. Coming from the west coast we were able to pick the seaweed fresh and eat it directly on the beach. A cold westerly wind kept us wrapped up warm until the enthusiasm from Marie Louise\u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/theecologycentre.ie\/about\/\">Ecology Centre<\/a> had us wading into the cold Atlantic hunting seaweed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16708416_10208108856181252_2559170342664006737_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16708416_10208108856181252_2559170342664006737_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16708416_10208108856181252_2559170342664006737_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16708416_10208108856181252_2559170342664006737_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A trip to the Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We stayed on The Monastery, a lovely hostel at the foot of the Connemara National Park. Allowing us to climb Diamond Hill. It allowed us stunning views ( while getting some fresh air into our lungs). The view was stunning and we really appreciated the day. The pub afterwards wasn&#8217;t too bad either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16683843_1573208699373800_4325903683429717906_n-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16683843_1573208699373800_4325903683429717906_n-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16683843_1573208699373800_4325903683429717906_n-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/05\/16683843_1573208699373800_4325903683429717906_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All work and no play makes Homer go crazy&#8230;. &nbsp; In February the CCAFS society and the Organic Gardening Society went on a weekend trip ( organised my myself) out to Letterfrack in Connemara. &nbsp; On a bright Saturday at a remote beach we had a fantastic lesson on edible seaweed. Coming from the west&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/donagh-hennessy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}