Feeding Ourselves, rescheduled to 23rd May 2018
RURAL REVITALISATION THROUGH A COMMUNITY APPROACH to FARMING AND FOOD The annual coming together of small farmers, community food advocates and anyone involved or interested in community supported agriculture, social farming, permaculture, agroecology, rural revitalisation, agri-food policy, soil health, citizen science, farm hack, social farming and livelihoods through food and agriculture. We will celebrate the soil beneath our feet, the food it provides for our communities, and the agroecological farmers and growers who work the land!! Please save the dates and spread the word – more info and booking to come soon. 3rd March is the main event With a walk and activities on the community farm on the 4th Cloughjordan, Tipperary Themes and content: Clubbing Together for Rural Revitalization What is the role for cooperatives, for community food sovereignty, and other community initiatives and tendencies? The example from Cloughjordan ecosystem of food initiatives. With Cloughjordan Community Co-op, Cloughjordan wholefood…
WEAVE (Farm Fundraiser) Sat 17th Feb 2018
Live music from WEAVE and friends in the Parochial Hall, Step Road Cloughjordan Join us on Saturday 17th February for an inspiring night filled with the beautiful harmonies of WEAVE, with guest appearances by Ned Kelly(In tune for life) and Maggie McEntee. Doors 7.30pm Tickets 10euro Available from local shops and at the door.
Volunteers 2018
2018 Erasmus+ EVS project If you are between 18 and 30 years of age you can spend one year volunteering with us on an EU funded Erasmus+ EVS project. Through creating partnerships with Sending Organisations with other countries, Cloughjordan Community Farm can host volunteers for one year to participate in our EVS project “Growing Together”. You will receive free accommodation, food, insurance and pocket money. The only thing you might have to pay is a small part of your travel costs. At the end of your EVS period, you will receive a certificate confirming your participation and describing your project – Youthpass. Wwoofing We ask a minimum of one month from volunteers with a daily commitment of 5 hours and weekends free. Accommodation is camping with cooking facilities provided as well as compost toilets and showers. We prefer that you come through the wwoof Ireland organisation. How can you apply? If…
Cloughjordan Community Farm is open for new members
There are so many reasons to get involved in Community Supported Agriculture. If you are in the Cloughjordan area, join us! Everything that comes off the farm land belongs to the members. Members also have free or low cost access to all of our training and educational events. We host social events, community meals and quarterly meetings where you have the opportunity to meet the producers and other farm members. Our vegetables are grown in healthy, nutrient rich soil and taste amazing, this makes being a part of Cloughjordan Community Farm a unique experience, as you will be directly connected to the source of your food. You’ll hear from the people who grow it and can explore the place it came from with weekly harvest reports and farm visits. Read more and download our membership application form here
A few recipes for the season!
A number of people participating in the Sauerkraut making sessions have asked ‘what do you do with cabbage?’ So here are a few recipes that take advantage of our seasonal vegetables using cabbage. Rustic Cabbage Potato and White Bean Soup.. http://www.simple-veganista.com/2014/10/rustic-cabbage-potato-white-bean-soup.html Red Cabbage Recipes – with bacon.. https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/must-try-red-cabbage-braised-with-apple-bacon-and-balsamic-vinegar/ Vegetarian Red Cabbage– https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3064/braised-red-cabbage-with-cider-and-apples Bacony Brussel Sprouts – Ignore the advertising at the beginning of the page. This is a recipe that can be made outdoors or indoors.. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=6743xheuqghn#inbox/15f98160dbd1da70 Brussel Sprouts with Parmesan Cream.. http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/brussels-sprouts-parmesan-cream
Cloughjordan Party in Galway! Ruaille Buaille meets Pressure Drop in club Áras na Gael, Friday 17th Nov
The good people of Cloughjordan Community farm need to rebuild their barn – or, better still, build a better one! This unique community owned and operated farm in Cloughjordan Ecovillage is holding a fun fudraiser with a set of Get-Up-To-Get-Down DJs from the Pressure Drop and Ruaille Buaille stables!!! DJs Will Softly and Frank Bouchier of ‘Ruaille Buaille‘ join Ollie Moore and Paul Ryan of ‘Pressure Drop‘ for what is the penultimate Dance Party ever in Club Aras na nGael! Global Beats and Reggae Treats will abound – expect afro house, cumbia, dancehall, funk, disco, and what works to make magic feet move and groove! Prior to the dancing, there will be a presentaiton on cloughjordan ecovillage and farm, a discussion following on from this, while chai and hot veggie food will also be available – fresh from the farm! Tickets just E5! Visit the Facebook page here
Dark Skies Event in the Ecovillage, 4th Nov 2017
On Saturday 4th November 2017 a FULL MOON story telling event was held by the ‘Dark Sky Group’ in the new Skybowl Garden in the Ecovillage. We would like to thank the performers on the night: Bee Leitner, Mel White, Andrew Lummis and Nigel Quinlan who ended the story telling with a rollicking tale. Many thanks to John Flannery, our guest Astronomer, who travelled from Dublin for the event and was a font of information, technical and legendary, on our skies.. as well as donating two lovely astronomy books to the Raffle. Special kudos to the children and young people who also read their own stories or found legends to read.. your courage and inventiveness were much appreciated and ye well deserved your prizes!! Thanks too to all the willing helpers on the night! We look forward to the next Dark Sky gathering – to be announced here soon! Dark Sky Group View a selection…
SpeakEATsy at Savour Kilkenny
At the Savour Kilkenny Festival, Sunday 29th October, we hosted one of the most enjoyable SpeakEATsy’s yet… Thanks to the organisers of Savour Kilkenny for adding us to the programme, to Willie and his staff at Billy Byrnes, to Costellos Brewing Co; to Johanna at Night Orchard and the girls from Market Kitchen for coordinating the meal; to the performers – Sougata Roy Chowdhury and Shariajdeep Singe al the way from India, the Cloughjordan based Maggie McEntee and the more local warbling folk wonderboys the Savage Jim Breen, and of course Mel White for her spoken word and Paul and Ollie the dastardly dapper Djs of the Boudoir Sessions; gratitude to Darren for the sound, and Ciara, Aaron, Vicky, Shay and Brid for the support on the door and serving up the dishes; to Julie, Ollie and Davie for the compelling intro to the food ecosystem of Cloughjordan Ecovillage; a big thanks…
SpeakEATsy at Savour Kilkenny
A convivial evening featuring a Night Orchard meal with Cloughjordan ingredients, slam poetry, compelling conversations, live acoustic music and DJs to finish. What more could a body and mind ask for!?! What’s the next step for a local food culture? Can food be a tool to help communities really thrive in uncertain times? And how much fun can we have finding out? Shared food, words and music are great ways to bring people together – SpeakEATsy is a novel take on these simple ingredients and an impulse to cultivate community. SpeakEATsy has emerged from Cloughjordan Ecovillage, an ecosystem of food innovation in the Irish midlands, where people have chosen to live work and play together. Join hosts Dr.Oliver Moore and Davie Philip from Cloughjordan, out back in the idiosyncratic aesthetic splendor of Billy Byrnes, for an experience that is far more than the sum of its parts – food, poetry,…