Cork Food Web are organising a series of events around Cork City for The Big Lunch on July 19th. What is The Big Lunch? Imagine a summer’s day on which millions of us, throughout the UK and Ireland, sit down to have lunch together, with our neighbours in the middle of our streets, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The Big Lunch
Posted in Community Food, Events on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Picnic at Gort na Nain
Posted in Events, tagged organic, slow food, Vegetarian on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s really starting to feel like summer, this just in from Slow Food Cork City:
Hi all,
There are still some places left for the next event of Slow Food Cork City on Saturday 20th June, 11:30. This time, we are visiting Ultan Walsh at his organic vegetable farm followed by a picnic.
Ultan is well known in [...]
Can We Feed Ourselves?
Posted in Food producers, food policy on June 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I recently gave a short presentation on the topic of food security against the sobering historical backdrop of the National Famine Commemoration in Skibbereen. Could we ever see a situation again in which we failed to feed people? Having committed to giving the presentation I was forced to do some research and sift through what [...]
