Ideas to get you started on a gentler festive season

Lots of very green ideas for a very green Christmas

• Organic gift boxes €75-€180 from Absolutely Organic, info@absolutelyorganic.ie, in association with Fruition, www.fruition.ie

• Farmers' Markets at Glendalough and Leopardstown. Contact Sean McArdle on tel: 086-3826377

• Organic turkeys from Drumeen Farm, Co Kilkenny, available from major supermarkets; from Snugboro Farm, Roundwood, Co Wicklow, pre-order on tel: 01-2828178

• Organic vegetables, Dublin Food Co-operative, Pearse St, Dublin. Saturdays 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

• On the Case, organic wine suppliers, info@onthecase.ie or tel: 01-4730156

• Fair Trade hampers, €35-€79 Taca Solutions, tacasolutions@eircom.net or tel: 087-6321803

•  Trócaire's Global Gifts. For information phone callsave tel: 1850-408408 or visit www.trocaire.org

• Christmas Tree candle holders from Galleria Gifts, 6/7 Chatham Street, Dublin 2, and Habitat

• The Hemp Store, 167 Capel Street, hempco@ireland.com

• The Peters World Atlas - the Earth in its true proportions, €35 from The National Map Centre, 34 Aungier Street, Dublin 8. H The Daily Mail Alphabet Jigsaws,

www.alphabetjigsaws.com

• Bioviva, the eco-trivia game. €34 From Amnesty International shops, www.bioviva.com

• Recycled wrapping paper 85c per sheet; Irish-designed 2003 wall planner €1.75 and eco-stocking fillers supplied by Klee paper. Available from the Amnesty Shop, Dublin; Readers Bookshop, Dún Laoghaire; the Hopsack, Rathmines; Quay Co-op, Cork; the Book Centre, Kilkenny; Simple Simon, Donegal Town; Nature's Gold, Greystones; Ennis Bookshop, Ennis; Octaura, Castleisland, Co Kerry

• Christmas cards from the Irish Peatland Conservation Council. €4.99 for 8 large cards; €5.99 for 12 smaller cards; Prestige pack of 15 cards, €7.99. Celebrating Boglands, €30. Also from IPCC: Teach Yourself Irish Birdsongs, CD €13.95. Tel: 01-8722397 or www.ipcc.ie

• Wild Ireland - Ireland's wildlife and environmental magazine. Annual subscription €25. Tel: 045-894900 or www.wildireland.com

• Gift membership of Birdwatch Ireland. €29 for one year's individual membership, which includes the quarterly membership magazine Wings. www.birdwatchireland.ie