Nursing Homes Week - Connected With Nature
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Now, Terence Flanagan, your report this week is? Yes, Derek, I was in Naoise. I was at the Craddock House Nursing Home. In August every year, Nursing Homes Ireland organise a special week called Nursing Homes Week. It's an annual celebration of the people who live and work in our nursing homes throughout the country. And the theme for this year's week is entitled Connected with Nature. Why not?
What is Nursing Homes Week and why is it happening in August 2026?
So I travelled to Nace to meet up with Mary Darker and Mary McLaughlin to catch up with some of the activities that they've planned for the week.
Hi Terry, come on over.
Hi. So I'm with the two Marys, is that right?
That's correct. I'm Mary Darker. I'm the activities coordinator here in Craddock House. And this is Mary?
Mary McLaughlin. And you're a resident here? Yes, I think with the last four years. And enjoying yourself? Very much so. I'd recommend it to anybody. This is the place to come.
Okay. Well, I'll go to the other Mary first. Mary, we're here at your elevated herb garden. Tell me what's happening here.
Yes, Terry, we're here at our proposed new herb garden. We're just in the middle of making it now. We've collaborated with our chef here in the kitchen and he's going to advise us on what particular herbs to grow that he would use for his kitchen and that we can use to produce for the kitchen use. So we're looking at putting in some sage, some parsley, some thyme for stuffing and a wide array of the older type flowers and herbs that the residents would be used to growing.
Now, Mary, I'm sure you would have grown lots and lots of herbs in your day.
Yes, we did. For the cooking, for the stews, for the soups, for flavouring and all that. Parsley, thyme, sorrel.
Who are the staff and residents Terry meets at Craddock House Nursing Home?
Sorrel is one that I haven't heard anybody talk about for many, many years.
I'd use it in sauces. I mean, I'd try out anything.
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Do you remember that old song? Yes, yes. Simon and Garfunkel. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine
Now, the reason why you're doing this, Mary, is for a competition, really, isn't it?
Well, it is really, yeah. It's something that our residents are very interested in. But we're working in conjunction with Nursing Home Ireland, who every year have a Nursing Home Ireland week, which is in August. And this year, their team is connected with nature. So we're looking at different aspects around the nursing home where we can help our residents to connect with nature going forward and what's good for the nursing home, what projects we can take on, For example, we're taking on a project doing a biodiversity study on our local lakes here in Nace, just off the road from us, something that we're looking forward to doing. We're within easy walking distance to the lakes and we're going to work with the Nace Biodiversity Group and see what we can come up with and we'll have it recorded for future residents.
What is the reaction of the residents here to nature in general?
Oh, Terry, I have to say, you know, nature is something that's very much to the fore in our residents' mind. You know, a lot of our residents will tell us stories about how things were cured many years ago with nature, tinctures that they would have used, flowers that they would have remembered in their gardens. And we've tried to use those flowers in the gardens for the likes of cowslips and primroses and flowers that would have meant something to them. So, yeah, nature would be very, very important and it's something that they'd be passionate about.
What is the elevated herb garden project and which herbs will be grown?
Mary, do you have a favourite flower?
I don't think I do. I love every flower and all types of stuff that grow in the garden, in the hedgerows and everything.
And their uses in medicine, would you have had used them for various cures?
No, I wouldn't, but I've heard of them many years ago. And the herbalists must have a great array of those plants or whatever now these days because people would be more interested and more learned about the herbs you know.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:24
2
What is Nursing Homes Week and why is it happening in August 2026?
0:24–1:46
3
Who are the staff and residents Terry meets at Craddock House Nursing Home?
1:46–3:58
4
What is the elevated herb garden project and which herbs will be grown?
3:58–5:59
5
How do residents remember and use traditional herbs like sorrel and parsley?
5:59–11:03
6
What nature-focused activities and biodiversity projects are planned at Craddock House?
11:03–11:51