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http://theholliesonline.com/

Welcome to the Homepage of The Hollies – a centre for training in Practical Sustainability on about 30 acres near Castletown-Kenneigh, Enniskeane, in West Cork. It is owned by An Baile Dulra Teoranta, a non-profitmaking company with charitable status for the educational work it promotes. It aims to create working examples of what a sustainable society might look like in the areas of housing, energy, gardening, economics and community development. Since 1999 The Hollies has been developing educational programs and putting in place examples of various natural building techniques and inspiring, productive and educational gardens and woodlands.

We also keep developing our sustainability programs for local schools. A pilot project – Living with One Planet – was successfully run in 2006 with funding from West Cork Leader and further developed in 2007/8 with funding from Irish Aid including a training module for secondary school teachers. For this year we are looking for local sponsors to help us continue our educational work as public funding is currently being severely cut back and requires disproportionate administrative efforts that we can’t sustain being a small charitable organisation.

We are open to volunteers, so if you would like to stay here for a period of time (min. 2 weeks), and learn how to build with cob and other sustainable living skills, do get in touch with us. Visits by appointment only.

We hope that you enjoy this site and we welcome any feedback. We hope to see you on one of our courses.