Guess what! We’ve managed to cadge four bottles of Viridian Joint Omega Oil to give away! The first four readers who tell us the names of two *spicy* ingredients in Viridian Joint Omega Oil will each win a bottle of this nourishing elixir. Just email us the correct answer and we’ll be in touch should […]
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Clearing a Path (click to download) Well if you haven't already heard of colonic irrigation you must be the last one to know – made famous by it's celebrity devotees of the last decade, colonics have been somewhat villified due to the somewhat taboo nature of the, ahem, stuff that they deal with. Download the […]
Why do our Asian cousins age more slowly? And what can Eastern health traditions offer women who yearn for optimum wellbeing? If you are free over the May Bank Holiday weekend, come to Keith Ashton’s Traditional Chinese Medicine workshops and find out. Keith is a long-standing practitioner and tutor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). From […]
Well after listening to somebody on Radio 1 a couple of weeks ago from the FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) talking about Ireland’s disproportionately huge appetite for tropical hardwood trees I was getting extremely depressed hearing statistics such as the 50 hectares of Amazonian rainforest being felled daily when our Tiger was prowling the Irish countryside […]
A solution for us but what for the bees? Â Can we really afford to ignore the huge marker put down for modern industrial farming methods by the drastic decline in bee populations. Â Nonetheless as a short term solution for those of us whose lives depend solely and completely on the consistent availability of […]
Some oils are better than others…and some are so good you could call them super-dooper! Well there’s just such a range lurking in the fridge at the Hopsack. Viridian’s range of nutritional oils is a fantastic range aimed at boosting our intake of essential fats and other nutrients, each one with its own specific qualities. […]
For 11 months of the year we happily retail nice free range, organic, and duck versions for you our customers to devil them as you will. BUT WAIT! The following eggs are never to be boiled, fried, poached or scrambled…in fact they’re like the fast food of the egg nation: simply unwrap and wedge into […]
Have you have ever awoken to a python basking on your forehead, or a devil banging a chisel into your eye? If so â and you were not dreaming or otherwise wired to your unconscious! â you know the pain of headache. Headaches take many forms: tension, sinus, migraine and cluster headaches, to name but […]
…or is it just your lover's scent? Love sweet love has inspired singers, artists and poets, blacksmiths and cowgirls since the dawn of time. Everyone, that is, except scientists, who â with heartbreaking froideur â have boiled the alchemy of love down to chemistry. Or pheromones, to be exact. Pheromones are molecules secreted by animals […]
I’ve been having great fun this weekend making herb balls for customers to taste on Monday afternoon. Rude Health Week begins on Monday 15th, in case you had forgotten. The Hopsack has all sorts of exciting things going on in-store during the week, including practitioners offering advice and treatments and loads of tastings. The week […]