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This unique music, poetry, food and conversation night explores two themes: farming and community, and also how humans live and produce nourishment in their landscapes.

What: an evening of food, music, performance poetry, thoughtful inspired conversation themed about land and landscapes, food and farming, nature and nourishment…and Wendell Berry

Who: Ella McSweeney (BBC, The Guardian, RTE) Paul Kingsnorth (The Wake) Ras Tinny (World Bass Culture) Weave (Electric Picnic)

When: Saturday 25th June from 7pm

Where: Bay 1, WeCreate, Cloughjordan ecovillage, Tipperary

Why: to raise funds for Cloughjordan Community farm and Bay 1 of WeCreate as a culture hub.

Let’s make April 24th 2016 -  the real date that marks the Easter Rising -  Ireland’s food sovereignty proclamation day. And let's eat and tweet about it. Here's the why and how.

April 24th 2016 is the actual 100th anniversary of the 1916 rising. On that date a century ago, a visionary proclamation was read out to unsuspecting  passers by. Within a few short years, all had changed, changed utterly.

My local baker - Joe Fitzmaurice (below) of the Riot Rye Bakehouse in Cloughjordan – got himself very excited recently about a new organic flour - in large enough bags for him to use.

It came from Andrew and Leonie Workman of Dunany farm in county Louth.

Leoine told me about their background.

“We both have third level education from Seal-Hayne Agricultural College in Devon.

Our farm is on the east coast of county Louth with a deep clay/loamy soil.

What: Accelerating the Transition to a Locally-Based Economic Model of Agriculture and Food Distribution.

With beef and sheep under pressure in climate change negotiations, could agroforestry help improve livestock’s carbon footprint?

Agroforestry combines farming and forestry. However, it’s not that the two sites are next to each other. Rather, they are integrated into the one area. So the trees and either animals or crops are together in the same fields.

This is an exceptionally long post of interest to those in the organic sector. Its contains much of the proceedings from a pair of  Oireachtas joint committee on Organic Farming.

It starts with the Organic Farmers Representative Body (OFRB) presentign their case, and concludes with Paul Dillon and others form the Department responding. The Cert bodies were contacted by myself about a response but declined.

Now THIS is a night out! SpeakEATsy - winter words and nourishment (PeakEats?) will feed you, engage you, challenge you and, in the very end, make you move your body. A lot.

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20.00 - 21.00 - Community Farm Meal

Sit down four course meal prepared with Cloughjordan Community Farm produce, Riot Rye bread and other Cloughjordan delicacies served in a convivial setting. Invite your friends book a table, make an evening of it. Bring your own beverage.

With the harvest in, I spoke with some organic tillage farmers about their crop yield and quality, as well as the price they get paid for it. As it happens, some of the beef producers had something to say too.

Ben Colchester in Urlingford, Kilkenny: “We were happy with our harvest. The oats were clean and though they were harvested at 20% moisture our dryer brought them down to 15% at which point it was weighed as it went in arctics to Flahavans.

Dominic and Ali Leonard’s 250 acre mixed farm  in south east Laois is something of a model farm. It has been used as a Teagasc demonstration farm, and is likely to be visited even more frequently, with the opening of a shop and tea rooms earlier this year.

Oliver Moore: Tell me about your background Dominic.

Dominic Leonard: 15 years ago I moved from Dublin, when my uncle wanted to retire. He was alone, farming for 25 years, 30 years, and he asked if I’d take over.

Our 2012 feature on Sean O Farrell

Cloncannon Biofarm has received accreditation as a Discovery Primary Science Centre, making it the second such centre in County Tipperary.

Sean O’Farrell’s certified organic 23 hectares, beneath the Devil's Bit, is now taking primary, secondary and transition year students, all of whom get a very animated educational experience from the man with a Trinity Masters in Biodiversity  and Conservation.
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