SpeakEATsy: Soil & Climate Action, Sat 8th December
An evening of food, art, live music, poetry, DJs and dancing as part of the Global Green Christmas Party and World Soils Day. This unique event includes a sumptuous local meal, acoustic music, spoken word and a public conversation in a convivial festival setting, resonant of our set up at the Electric Picnic. With sweet sounds from local singer songwriter Nicantsaoi, The HQs – a family folk band who have developed their own combination of folk blues and hillbilly funk to form a unique harmonic sound that will blow your mind…plus gypsy jazz and swing from the Cloughtown Swing Band. Delicious food from the Community Farm and local producers, prepared by Johanna at the Night Orchard. A conversation on the topic of healthy soil and climate change with Dr Oliver Moore and Cara Augustenborg, live poetry curated by Mel White and global beats from DJs Pressure Drop and Anacalypsis complete the aesthetic.…
Farm Heritage Day – Working Animals on Farms, 22nd Sept 2018
Joining Cloughjordan Community Farm’s Pat Malone and his working horses are Eamon and Gereldine McDonagh (Bovine demonstration), Harry and Mona Bartlelink (Horses and potato harvesting) all day on Saturday 22nd September 2018 on Cloughjordan Community Farm. The day will be a meeting of the Irish Workhorse Association after event and a 10 year celebration of Cloughjordan Community Farm. Feile Na n’Ull – the Apple Festival event is also taking place on the same date, same place, which sees a range of apple related events in Cloughjordan. For more information contact Pat Malone on (089 2584326) www.cloughjordancommunityfarm.ie Facebook/cloughjordancommunityfarm Cloughjordan Community Farm, Cloughjordan Ecovilllage, Co. Tipperary
Feile na n’Ull, Apple Festival – 22nd September 2018
The 3rd annual Apple Festival and Community Fair takes place in the ecovillage at Cloughjordan. This festival, which coincides with the European Day of Sustainable Communities, celebrates the yield of apples, those that tend to the trees, who work the land and those who create delicious food. The day features a number of talks, workshops and activities that are open to the public. Highlights include delicious local food stalls, an apple baking contest, tours around the ecovillage, its orchards of heritage apples and a Heritage Day highlighting working animals and seed saving on the community farm. It has been a great year for apples and at Féile na nÚll there will be a chance to get them juiced. Bring your apples for mashing and pressing and, if you have an apple pie or tart recipe you are proud of, consider entering the Apple Bake contest. In the evening there will be…
More than vegetables! A photo essay of soil, cover crops and good old farm yard manure.
While what we grow is mostly vegetables, there is lot more to our farm than the edible plants we grow. How we produce our vegetables is important too – we manage the land with a long term vision, so it’s in the best shape to keep producing food into the future. And we do so without harmful inputs – mineral fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides – because of the damage these things do. We care about the soil and about biodiversity, for lots of reasons. Below are some recent pictures of the stuff that’s not vegetables. This is a four plant cover crop. It consists of fodder radish, mustard, rye and coltsfoot grass. This entire field is covered in this cover crop to help build the soil. Growing vegetables depletes the soil of nutrients, so we grow this plant combination on a specific field that needs it, and then, we don’t harvest it…
Feeding Ourselves: Rural Revitalisation through a Cooperative Approach to Farming and Food – 26th & 27th May 2018
Join us for the Feeding Ourselves gathering! See Full Schedule This is the annual coming together of small farmers, community food advocates and anyone with an interest in good food, good farming and rural revitalisation. This year’s focus is on community supported agriculture, cooperation, regenerative agriculture, citizen science, better agri-food policies and other people and planet friendly practices such as social farming and high nature value farming. Saturday 26th: Feeding Ourselves Conference (Venue: WeCreate Workspace, Cloughjordan Ecovillage) Farm Flicks in the evening: Farming on Crisis Sunday 27th: Events include: Community Gardens Ireland Gathering | Briefing on the new EU Organic Regulation | Restoring Biological Diversity, Strengthening our Resilience (see pdf for full details) Book here: Through NOTS (National Organic Training Skillnet) With Ella McSweeney (RTE, BBC) Hannes Lorenzen (European Parliament, ARC2020) Pavlos Georgiadis (GROW Observatory Greece, Kannabio Hemp Co-operative), Helen Doherty (Social Farming Ireland), Clifford Guest (LIT), Aideen McGloin (Social Farming…
SpeakEatsy: A Convivial Evening – Sat 7th April
Complementary beer from the award winning White Gypsy Brewery. A delicious shared Community Farm meal by Night Orchard Spoken word poetry from Mel White and Dave Rock Live music from Maggie McEntee and Roj Light Conversation with US community activist Brittney Johnson Pressure Drop DJs to finish Saturday 7th April | 19.00 till late | €25 seated meal and evening entertainment (booking essential) | €15 evening entertainment from 20.30 (with food available to purchase) ‘SpeakEATsy’ is a unique evening of music, poetry, food and conversation that is so much more than the sum of its parts. Book in for a delicious shared meal with Community Farm and local produce by Night Orchard. At this SpeakEATsy there will be complimentary beer from the award winning White Gypsy Brewery. Resident poet Mel White, winner of the Cuirt Literary Festival Poetry Slam, will share some of her new work and dynamic spoken word…
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.
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…