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  • SpeakEATsy Sat 23rd March | WeCreate | 19:00 to Midnight

    SpeakEATsy Sat 23rd March | WeCreate | 19:00 to Midnight

    “Eats and Beats is back! Our first one of 2024 is on Saturday 23rd March from 7PM til midnight, in Bay 1 The Food Hub, Wecreate
    Cloughjordan.

    This time we’ve a new chef  – the incomparable Hasrat Dayan  – and DJ Smøllhaus aka Tiny House Paul, who will accompany eats and beats regular Ollie Moore. The pair will spin tropical, house, UKG, dancehall and mashups a plenty!

    We kick off at 7 with a sumptuous meal, centred around our Cloughjordan Community Farm seasonal veg. Hasrat Dayan specialises in Anatolian and Mesopotamian cuisine, made using Ayurvedic food combinations. What an Evening Awaits you!”

     

    SOLD OUT!

  • SpeakEATsy July 1st | WeCreate | 19:00 to Midnight

    SpeakEATsy July 1st | WeCreate | 19:00 to Midnight

    SpeakEATsy | Saturday July 1st | 19:00 to Midnight

    Food Hub I WeCreate I Cloughjordan Ecovillage IRELAND 

     

    SpeakEATsy is a celebratory evening of arts and local food – conversations hosted by Davie Philip and poet Mel White – music from Matthew Noone, composer and performer of the 25 stringed lute, the sarode – a delicious 3 course vegan meal with community farm produce cooked up by Alex from West Coast Toast – performance and a compelling after dinner conversation with cultural creatives from the WEAll Deep Dive – and DJs Ollie Moore, Ruari McBride and Aaron Bailey to finish.

     

    BYOB 

     

    €40 Places from 19.00 to midnight – almost sold out only 15 places left!

    After 10.00 dancing tickets – pre-booked €8 or €10 on the door (cash only on door)

     

    Tickets available to buy in WeCreate – for more info email speakeatsy@cloughjordancommunityfarm.ie 

     

     

  • EATS N BEATS – 26th May

    EATS N BEATS – 26th May

    “Incoming! Our May edition of EATS and BEATS is on – last one til end of September! 

    EAT an amazing meal and dance to brilliant BEATS at the farm’s very own EATS ‘N’ BEATS event – a Cloughjordan Community Farm fundraiser. From 7-12. Make a date for fab fodder and top tunes with your groovy farm team and friends. It’s a simple formula – chews then tunes. So that’s very seasonal, very local and super tasty food from our farm to tantalize the taste buds and set you up proper for an evening of dancing and prancing, hither and thither, all around Bay One in Wecreate – aka The Food Hub!”

    Food:

    Eats and Beats Menu

    Music:

    Our May edition sees Aaron Oscar headlining, playing beaty electro swing, tech house, and base wobble global groves to get you moving! High energy dancefloor vibes! Also featuring Rurai and Ollie – spinning cumbia, afro beat, dancehall reggae andistep and more from the tropical world!

    Tickets – Sold Out!

  • EATS N BEATS

    EATS N BEATS

    “It’s on! EAT amazing food and dance to brilliant BEATS at the farm’s very own EATS ‘N’ BEATS event – a Cloughjordan Community Farm fundraiser on Friday 28th April. From 7-12. Make a date for fab fodder and top tunes with your groovy farm team and friends. It’s a simple formula – chews then tunes. So that’s very seasonal, very local and super tasty food from our farm to tantalize the taste buds and set you up proper for an evening of dancing and prancing, hither and thither, all around Bay One in Wecreate – aka The Food Hub!”

    Food – the main

    Menu will be posted soon!

    Music:
    Our April show will also feature DJ Beep Beep – Dublin’s rockabilly queen! Beep Beep is a driving force at the Haunt in the Electric Picnic, and at Rockabilly festivals and events all over Ireland, the UK and Europe
     
    Rockabilly, cumbia, reggae, tropical, afrobeat, dancehall
     



    EATS N BEATS


  • Feeding Ourselves 23

    Feeding Ourselves 23

    Feeding Ourselves 2023

    SATURDAY 25th March 

    10.00 – Voices from the field:  Breakfast session sharing stories of where we are at and a facilitated discussion on emerging practice. 

    11.30 – Feeding Ourselves. Growing a stronger movement   

    Where are we at?  Where do we want to go?  How do we get there?
    Strengthening the solidarity food movement on the island and supporting a regenerative and more resilient way to nourish the land and feed ourselves. 

    14.00 – Break out sessions 

    • Community Supported Agriculture 

    • Diversity in Agriculture  

    • Policy Weaving – agri-food rural, environmental

    • Textiles from seed to fibre

    • Digitalisation – OFN Platform  

    • Soil and Biodiversity – findings from research

    15.30 – Connecting with Europe – 

    A blended session held with Forum Synergies, with online participants joining from across Europe. With Short Stories from the book ‘Rural Europe Takes Action – No More Business as Usual’. 

    Balkan Seeds Network – The story of a network of scientists and seed savers’ organisations tapping into the rich biodiversity and agricultural heritage of South Eastern Europe to stimulate resilient food systems

    Plessé – Faced with the urgent threat of encroaching mega farms, the municipality of Plessé in France decided to take agricultural affairs into their own hands
    Food Hubs – Food hubs have emerged as a successful model to promote the aggregation, value addition, distribution, and marketing of local food. 

    Woman in Agriculture – Envisioning what gender equality looks like in agriculture and how inequality prevents women bringing their perspective and experience to the discussion, design and implementation of all things food, farming and rural living.

    16.45 – Plenary / Keynote Reflections 

    Rural Ireland takes Action – 4 north Tipperary farmers diversifying, driven by environmental care

    Sean O Farrell (beef, poultry, pork, biodiversity, education, social farming) 

    Mimi Crawford (dairy, poultry, pork; regenerative agriculture and dairy direct selling)

    Ailbhe Gerard (sheep, forestry, honey, education/climate action)

    Maurice Deacy (cereals, heritage grains, on-farm brewery) 

    Sharing insights and reflections from the first day with ARC2020

    Saturday Evening  

    20.00 – SpeakEATsy – Join us for the evening extravaganza that is the one and only SpeakEATsy, a unique evening of live music, poetry, amazing food, a compelling conversation and DJs to finish.

    SUNDAY 26th March 

    Four strands of activity over the day, all starting and ending together. 

    10.00 – Breakfast Check In
    11.15 – 4 Options 

    STRAND 1 – Just Transition Deep listening to farmers and their concerns, in a context of targets for GHG emissions reductions and other environmental legislation.   

    STRAND 2 – Food Hubs in the Rural Economy and their role in the Just Transition
    STRAND 3 – Seeds and natural dyes workshop and photo exhibition
    STRAND 4 – Intro to syntropic agroforestry 

    13.00 – Lunch
    14.00 – 4 Options 

    STRAND 1 – Another Rural Is Possible. Policy check-in – Talamh Beo, Environmental Pillar and others present policy ideas for feedback

    STRAND 2 – What is next for the Feeding Ourselves Network.
    STRAND 3 – Community Seed Banks with Kevin Dudley
    STRAND 4 – A RED Gardens Experience with Bruce Darrell 

    15.30 – Feeding Ourselves Final Session – Weaving it all together 

    16.30 – Farm Visits – Options on the way home 

    For booking go to www.cultivate.ie if you have any problems in registering e-mail or any queries contact. info@cultivate.ie   

     #FeedingOurselves23  

  • EATS N BEATS

    EATS N BEATS

    EATS N BEATS

    Cloughjordan Community Farm Fundraiser

    EATS N BEATS

    “It’s on! EAT amazing food and dance to brilliant BEATS at the farm’s very own EATS ‘N’ BEATS event – a Cloughjordan Community Farm fundraiser. From 7-12. Make a date for fab fodder and top tunes with your groovy farm team and friends. It’s a simple formula – chews then tunes. So that’s very seasonal, very local and super tasty food from our farm to tantalize the taste buds and set you up proper for an evening of dancing and prancing, hither and thither, all around Bay One in Wecreate – aka The Food Hub!”

    Food – the main

    – Ribollita (Tuscan beans, freshly baked gluten free bread and farm vegetable stew).
    The sides  
    – green salad with roasted potatoes and buckwheat.
    – coleslaw with a tahini and kimchi dressing.
    – green tomato chutney 
    – green leaf pesto (veggie and vegan options)

    All vegan (except one pesto option) and gluten-free (except one bread option)

    Music:Cumbia, reggae, tropical, afrobeat, dancehall 

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  • Feeding Ourselves 2019 conference – 23rd March 2009

    Feeding Ourselves 2019 conference – 23rd March 2009

    COMMUNITY REVITALISATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE APPROACHES TO FARMING AND FOOD.

    WHEN: SATURDAY 23rd MARCH 2019

    WHERE: WeCreate Workspace & Cloughjordan Community Farm, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland

    BOOK NOW – CLICK HERE

    Feeding Ourselves is the annual conference that brings together agro-ecological farmers, community food advocates and anyone with an interest in good food, good farming and community revitalisation.

    The focus this year is on you! This year we want our annual gathering to be all about the participants and our collective contributions – WE are the people we need to hear from!

    This is the event for you if you want to help with or are interested in:

    • Rural revitalisation
    • Community supported agriculture
    • Regenerative soil practices
    • Threats and opportunities of digitisation on agriculture and rural spaces
    • Climate disruption
    • The Common Agriculture Policy
    • Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

    Discover how a cooperative approach can strengthen and build more resilient and sustainable food systems, while at the same time supporting our communities and local economies.

    Case Studies, presentations and breakout discussions will be held on topics such as, Community Supported Agriculture, Food Hubs and other local supply and distribution systems.

    Make a weekend of it and stay over. There will be film screenings, a convivial community meal with compelling conversations, and music on the Saturday night. On the Sunday, there will be an open day with walks and activities on Cloughjordan Community Farm.

    If you want to create and support jobs in your area, help secure your food supply, are part of a community that wants to strengthen its local economy, or are a grower looking for a rewarding and potentially profitable way of supplementing your income, come to Cloughjordan where we’ll plan it all together.

    Organised by Cultivate and Cloughjordan Community farm, with funding support from NOTS, UCC’s Centre for Co-operative Studies, ARC2020, GROW Observatory, Night Orchard, Food Sovereignty Ireland, and CSA Ireland.

    Cost:

    National Organic Training Skillnet is co-funded by Skillnet Ireland and member companies. Skillnet Ireland is funded from the National Training Fund through the Department of Education & Skills. Therefore, the fees for this event have been reduced.

    Please note when you register your booking through NOTS, there is a drop down menu for you to select your ticket type.

    • €65 – Full day Sat & Sat Evening Event
    • €50 – Saturday Day Ticket (including Lunch)
    • €40 – Sat Day Ticket (excludes Lunch & Evening Event)
    • €15 – Saturday Evening Event: “In Our Hands: Seeding Change”

    The above are the NOTS funded rates and are only available through PAID advance bookings.

    Please note, if you do not wish to recieve the NOTS funding rates, full prices will apply on the day at Cloughjordan. ( See below)

    • €87 – Full day Sat & Sat Evening Event
    • €67 – Saturday Day Ticket (including Lunch)
    • €53 – Sat Day Ticket (excludes Lunch & Evening Event)
    • €20 – Saturday Evening Event: “In Our Hands: Seeding Change”

    IN OUR HANDS: SEEDING CHANGE
    Farm Meal, Film and Conversation. Saturday 23rd March 19.00 – 22.00

    Join us for a convivial evening celebration of small scale farming and community food production in the context of climate disruption.

    We stand on the brink, the future is uncertain, but the seeds of a better food system are quite simply … In Our Hands!

    All change begins with a story and In Our Hands is the story of the farmers who, through hope, and hard-graft are refusing to be victims of history.

    This evening get together after the Feeding Ourselves conference will include a screening of a documentary by the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and Black Bark Films, telling the inspiring story of real life farmers taking on the might of the industrial food system and taking back control of their lives, the land and their communities. This will be followed by a Community Farm meal, singing and poetry, and a compelling conversation with farmers and activists from the Extinction Rebellion movement.

    • 19:00-20.00 Film
    • 20.00-21.00 Shared Meal
    • 21.00-23.00 Conversation with Talamh Beo and Extinction Rebellion.

    We stand on a brink, but the future is still In Our Hands

    PLEASE INDICATE IN THE SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FIELD IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENTS SUCH AS VEGETARIAN OR VEGAN.

    Accommodation:

    Very affordable accommodation is available in Cloughjordan Ecovillage.

    To book Django’s Eco-Hostel see www.djangoshostel.com or call +353 87 256 9348.

    FARM FLICKS. SYMPHONY FOR THE SOIL – Friday 23rd MARCH – 20.10 – Please note, this event is not supported through NOTS. Please book directly with Cultivate. For further information see www.cultivate.ie or contact info@cultivate.ie

  • Feile na n’Ull, Apple Festival – 22nd September 2018

    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 a celebratory shared meal and open mic night for the Cloughjordan Community Farm 10th Anniversary Birthday! Bring a dish to share and an instrument to play!

    This exciting programme of special events kicks off at 11am in and around the WeCreate enterprise centre, which is located off the Shinrone Road entrance to ecovillage.

     

    Schedule
    11.00 – Opening
    Stalls and apple pressing open outside WeCreate.
    Entries for Apple Bake Contest can be checked in from 11 until 3.30.
    From 11 until 4 – Community Farm Heritage Day – Working Animals on Farms
    Joining Cloughjordan Community Farm’s Pat Malone and his working horses are Eamonn and Geraldine McDonagh (Bovine demonstration), Harry and Mona Bartlelink (Horses and potato harvesting)

     

    11.30 – Workshop – WeCreate Classroom
    We Need To Talk About Basic Income.
    A basic income is a payment from the state to every resident on an individual basis, without any means test or work requirement. It would be sufficient to live a frugal but decent lifestyle without supplementary income from paid work and will play a central role in a modern, flexible economy. Delivered by FEASTA and Basic Income Ireland.

     

    13.00 – Exhibit – WeCreate Main Space
    Introduction and exhibit on the Sustainable Development Goals
    A short presentation by Davie Philip of Cultivate on the 2030 Agenda and local projects addressing the global goals.

     

    13.30 – Introduction to Seed Saving – Cloughjordan Community Farm
    A short practical workshop on the importance of saving seed with Kevin Dudley.

     

    14.30 – FabLab Introduction – WeCreate
    Visit the WeCreate FabLab and hear what it is all about with Ben Whelan. A fab lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop offering digital fabrication, which is typically equipped with an array of flexible computer-controlled tools with the aim to make “almost anything”.

     

    15.00 – Ecovillage Presentation and Food Tour – WeCreate Main Space
    The story of Cloughjordan Ecovillage presented by members of the Ecovillage Education group followed by a tour of the allotments and RED Gardens (Research gardens), the apple tree walk, the Stop Food Waste composting area, the community farm and community woodlands.

     

    16.00 – Apple Bake Judging

     

    16.30 – Music from local singer songwriter ‘Nicantsaoi’ celebrating the release of her new single “The Apple Walk” 
     
    17.30 – Closing – winners of the Apple Bake announced.

     

    19.30 – Shared Meal in WeCreate celebrating the Community Farm’s 10th Birthday. 
    Bring a dish to share and an instrument to play!

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  • SpeakEatsy: A Convivial Evening – Sat 7th April

    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 artist and creativity facilitator Dave Rock will enthral and entertain us. There will be music from singer songwriter Maggie McEntee and some new tracks from the frontman Roger Whelan from the Dublin based band The RoJ LiGht. A public conversation will also take place with US community activist Brittney Johnson and Pressure Drop DJs to finish.

    SpeakEATsy is an experience – a happening – the core components are food; art; spoken word poetry; live musicians; a facilitated conversation with notable thinkers, writers or activists; and leading edge DJs to finish. Food, conversation and music are great ways to bring people together – SpeakEATsy emerged from a novel take on these simple ingredients and the desire to cultivate community.