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, [...]
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The Big Lunch
Posted in Community Food, Events on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Schools Cookery Competition Winners with Neven Maguire
Posted in Community Food, West Cork, tagged chefs, food education, neven maguire, schools on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last years winners of ‘A Taste of West Cork Schools Cookery Competition’, Ellen O’Regan & Pearse O’Flynn from Schull Community College have just sent us this account of their prizewinning trip to Neven Maguire’s MacNean House & Restaurant:
On Wednesday, 13th May 2009 we travelled the seven hour journey to Blacklion, Co. Cavan with our Home [...]
Slow Food West Cork Celebrates Slow Food International Grandmother’s Day
Posted in Community Food, Events on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hosford’s Garden Centre, Cappa, Enniskeane Co. Cork
Sunday 26th April 2-5pm
Demonstrations designed to pass on heritage skills to the youngsters – from the generation which knows best!
Bread and Scone Making with Ballinascarthy Bakers Mary Collins and Chrissie Flynn (children can join in)
All About Bees with Award Winning Beekeeper Bob McCutcheon, Secretary of County Cork [...]
Clonakilty Food Market
Posted in Community Food, tagged clonakilty, farmers market on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi Ivan,
Meeting to be hosted by the committee of Clonakilty Market, invited local business people, and invited local resident speakers to discuss and address the current situation in regards to the proposed outdoor food market in Clonakilty. Meeting to be chaired by Mick Hanly, Chairman of Clonakilty Tourism board.
All are welcome.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Public Meeting
8 [...]
Bantry CSA – the Community Solution to Getting Your Oats?
Posted in Community Food, Food producers, farmers, tagged bantry, community supported agriculture, csa, farming, sheeps head on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have been interested for some time in a model of food production called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) so I was delighted to find that a few pioneering souls are getting one going on the Sheep’s Head. Community supported agriculture is a relatively new socio-economic model of food production, sales, and distribution aimed at both [...]
Cork Food Web
Posted in Community Food, Events, tagged community supported agriculture, cork, csa, Local food, safe food on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy New Year and apologies for not having posted since early December – the Southern Star went into Christmas shopping ad mode and I took a holiday. Trying to walk that off now – that’s the price of full fat principles! Anyway whilst walking I’ve been thinking about what foods, farmers and producers I’d like [...]
New local food database for UK and Ireland
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 [...]
Ten Years a Growing – Awareness
Posted in Community Food, Events, tagged Community Food, growing, Local food on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
August this year marked the tenth anniversary of Growing Awareness, a Skibbereen based food and farming group and on Sunday next (September 28th) they have partnered up with An Sanctóir, the holistic centre in Ballydehob, to put together a day of walks, talks and demonstrations looking at local food production. The guided walk will take [...]
Market Motion for Clonakilty Town Council
Posted in Community Food, Events, tagged clonakilty, clonakilty market, farmers market on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This in from Cionnaith O Suilleabhain:
A Cháirde,
FYI below is the text of the motion submitted to Clonakilty Town Council for next Tuesdays Council Meeting agenda. It was agreed at the public meeting last week that this would be circulated as soon as it has been sent in to place on the agenda
The motion was co-signed [...]
Funding for Community Food Initiatives
Posted in Community Food, tagged Community Food, funding, healthy food for all on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Healthy Food for All and Safefood are establishing a Demonstration Programme on Community Food Initiatives and are looking for funding applications from eligible groups and organisations. The purpose of this funding is to establish a Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives (CFIs) on the island of Ireland. Between five and seven CFIs will be funded over [...]
