Posted in Community Food, Food producers, tagged irish food, Local food, producers on October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Came across this online local food database through an ad in the Observer Food Monthly.
Looks like it could be a great addition – information is one of the 3 key dynamics of the spiral of empowerment (motivation and action being the others). Local Food Advisor is not the first of it’s kind – I also like bigbarn.co.uk [...]
Posted in Food producers, tagged fishing, recession, smoked fish, Union Hall, West Cork on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Between the dark evenings and the budget it really feels like things are drawing in. Commonly accepted dietary advice at such times is to prescribe a range of mood enhancing foods to beat the winter blues. I say commonly accepted, because there are certainly those, like Ben Goldacre who writes Bad Science in the Guardian, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fuchsia brand, recession, rural development, Terra Madre Ireland, west cork leader co-op on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So it’s official, after 2 quarters of negative growth we’re in a recession. A lot of the businesses we are dealing with at West Cork LEADER Co-op are getting very worried. Yet amidst the anxiety there is a noticeable sense of relief too, a sense of getting back to reality and a sense that perhaps [...]
