Clon Market situation to worsen?

This news just in from Alison Wickham at Sustainable Clonakilty:
Hi everyone
It is the Council’s intention to request the Gardai to prevent next Friday’s Clonakilty Market taking place. Should this happen it may many months again before this facility is returned to the town.
People, as individuals, may wish to turn up at the Credit [...]

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Update on Slowfood Heritage Series

The first of the four part series of the Slow Food MasterClasses series in Urru, Bandon was a great success.
We had a great night with over 20 attendees covering chef (Good Things Cafe)
to Slow Foodies to experienced domestic cooks and new mums. We even had our
first guy via twitter! Proof of the pudding is in [...]

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Slow Food Heritage Series

 
 
Picked up this from the Cork City Slow Food blog. Sounds brilliant and it’s in Bandon too!!
Slow Food West Cork Convivium, Urru Culinary Store, Dan Maloney Meat Centre and Martin Carey Butchers all of Bandon have joined together to provide a unique opportunity to give a masterclass by meat and culinary experts.
Visit the site [...]

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The Green Shoots in our Food Culture

If I was to bare my guilt ridden soul to the watching world, they would no doubt spot the cherry tomatoes and batons of raw carrot on the middle shelf that were left there by my children. Healthy eating begins at home, and the beginning was fine – they couldn’t speak, didn’t know they had [...]

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Beyond Landscape Calendar for 2009

Forgot to mention this before Christmas which could have saved you a lot of gift buying, but we have a fabulous calendar out this year called Beyond Landscape. It features all our own photos from around West Cork in 2008. We’ve been capturing photos for 2 years now as part of an image database. The [...]

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LEADER Budget at Last

Great news – we finally got word today about the new LEADER programme, an announcement by Minister Eamonn O Cuiv, preceded by a local press release by his colleague Minister Batt O’Keefe – our budget for the next five years will be €14.6M. It will be brilliant to get going on projects again – it’s [...]

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Cork Slow Food Weekender

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Putting our trust in what we do well

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 [...]

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Further reflections on Terra Madre

With a bit more time to reflect on the Terra Madre experience, I’m starting to appreciate it’s more subtle effects. Something has taken root in my head, every now and then I catch myself coninuing conversations that I took part in weeks ago on a wet day at Waterford WIT. I guess it’s one of [...]

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Great show of support for Clonakilty Market

I meant to post this right after the event. It’s not really news now, but for anyone who missed the public meeting regarding the Clonakilty market last week (and that won’t be many I know), it was tremendously positive. Over 90 people attended, most had to stand at the back of the room, some were [...]

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