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Cloughjordan Community Farm – Spring 2024

cloughjo — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:55:06 +0000

Cloughjordan community farm - spring growth

Pat and the volunteers have been working hard through the winter, and with the arrival of spring the world has turned green once again; the trees are budding, the flowers are showing their faces to the sun as it peeks through the cloudy skies, awaiting the precious sunlight and sweet, cool rainfall. A new photo gallery is in the future of the CCF website, or so we hope, so keep a watch out for that when it arrives!

As always, if you would like to become a member, there are further details available on the membership page.

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EATS N BEATS – Fri 24th Nov

cloughjo — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:53:32 +0000

Eats & Beats Friday 24th November 7-12pm 16€

EAT an amazing meal and dance to brilliant BEATS at the farm’s very own EATS & 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 tantalise the taste buds and set you up proper for an evening of dancing and prancing, hither and thither, all around Bay One in Cloughjordan Ecovillage Enterprise Centre – aka The Food Hub! Leander’s Menu to be unveiled in the next few days…

DJs: AaronOscar brings bouncy basslines that wobble, warp, and bring wackiness to the dancefloor… What genre? Can’t exactly say, but high energy vibes are cued!

Ollie spins cumbia, afro beat, dancehall reggae andistep and more from the tropical world!

Also featuring a fabulous farm raffle, with 3 prize baskets including a beautiful hand made neck & wrist warmers from Annika Alex, locally produced food, goodies, and gift items from Soliós crafts, Riot Rye, and more to be announced. Raffle tickets below, or buy on the night, €5 per strip, four strips for €15. See below pictures, final basket to feature soon!

BOOK YOUR TICKET and raffle tix...

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EATS N BEATS – 27 OCT 2023

cloughjo — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:52:37 +0000

EATS and BEATS is back for a Halloween Special * Fancy Dress! 27th October *

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!”

Music – Afro & Latin Funk, Soul and House

Our October edition brings Lia Sands, playing Afro and Latin funk to throw some groovalicious shapes to on the dancefloor. Also featuring on this Halloween special is DJ Ruari McBride spinning spookie soul and house from way beyond the other world!

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

cloughjo — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:46:31 +0000

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

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EATS N BEATS – 26th May

cloughjo — Fri, 19 May 2023 08:47:25 +0000

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

Food:

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!

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SpeakEATsy at Savour Kilkenny

cloughjo — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:40:26 +0000

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, compelling conversations and music.

SpeakEATsy includes a dedicated meal tailored to theme, with a taste of Cloughjordan and Kilkenny. This includes produce from the multi award winning Riot Rye Bakehouse & Bread School (RAI Cookery School of the Year 2017) and Ireland’s only community owned and operated farm in Cloughjordan.

Peppered throughout the evening slam poets and acoustic musicians bearing their collective hearts – including Cuirt poetry slam winner 2016 Mel White, singer-songwriter Maggie McEntee and local warbling folk wonderboys the Savage Jim Breen.

Stories and compelling conversations will take us deeper into the real essence of the meaning of food and community. We ask – how can we, collectively, through our daily food choices, commit more to our locale and the living world around us? What are the methods trialled in Cloughjordan, how do they work ,and can they be replicated elsewhere? We will hear from local food and sustainability innovators from the Cloughjordan Ecovillage including Julie Lockett of Riot Rye Bakehouse and Bread School, while all manner of food heroes will pop up throughout the night.

Then, dance the evening away to Dastardly Dapper Djs of the Boudoir Session purveying the finest gramophone groovers. That’s two parts 20s swing, one part 50s calypso and a dash of 40s boogie woogie to boot.

See the Facebook Event page and book online here

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Cloughjordan Party in Galway! Ruaille Buaille meets Pressure Drop in club Áras na Gael

cloughjo — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:10:54 +0000

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

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SpeakEATsy – 23rd September 2017, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, 7.30pm

cloughjo — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:29:17 +0000

A convivial evening meal with spoken word, music and compelling conversations, this happening is far more than the sum of its parts: it’s a confluence of influences and inspirations delivering a full sensory and intellectual workout!
A deep discussion will be held with Easkey Britton, a big-wave surfer who is using her passion for the ocean to create social change and connection across cultures, and Fergal Smith (pictured), a professional surfer who has returned to the land to start a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm near Lahinch. Live acoustic music, slam poetry and global beats from DJs complete the aesthetic. Book early as this one books out!

See this one minute snippet for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTg4DBJoGkk

An evening with food at it’s core – bring a dish to share and tickets are €15. For an evening feast and a night out from cooking then come along for only €25.
For booking see Cultivate.ie – http://www.cultivate.ie/convergence-festival

Consider coming earlier for a full day out and enjoy the Sustainable Community Fair & Apple Festival in Cloughjordan Ecovillage! –https://www.facebook.com/events/1464660213611098

This event is part of Convergence, Cultivate’s sustainable living festival (see cultivate.ie for full programme), and is a fundraiser for Cloughjordan Community Farm.

SpeakEATsy – 23rd September 2017, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, 7.30pm

Visit the face book page here

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Féile na nÚll Apple Festival – Saturday 23rd of September 2017

cloughjo — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 22:43:12 +0000

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY FAIR – Féile na nÚll, Apple Festival @ Cloughjordan Ecovillage

It’s that colourful time of year, Féile na nÚll the Apple Festival and Sustainable Community Fair takes in Cloughjordan Ecovillage. From 11am there will be a Little Food Fair with stalls from Night Orchard, Wildfire Pizza, Back Lane BBQ, Lime Tree, Walnut Books and Harmony Gardens. Throughout the day there is apple pressing – bring your own apples! There is also an apple bake contest and activities for all the family. Some of the highlights are a workshop on our relationship to money, a preview of local playwright Joanna Ryan-Purcell’s(Banba Theatre) adaptation of Children of Lir on the Cloughjordan Community Amphitheatre and a presentation and guided tour of the Ecovillage.(see the full schedule below)

That evening from 7.30 there will also be a SpeakEATsy. This is a shared meal, live music, spoken word and a public conversation with professional surfer turned organic farmer Fergal Smith. Booking can be made here.

See the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1464660213611098

11.00 – Opening – Celebrating Sustainable Community (WeCreate)
A short introduction to the European Day for Sustainable Communities and our Féile na nÚll

11.00 – The Little Food Fair (Outside WeCreate)
On going throughout the day with delicious local food from local producers

11.00 – Apple Pressing (Outside WeCreate)

Ongoing throughout the day. Bring your apples for mashing and pressing. Up to 15kg pressed for free.

11.15 – Opening of the Apple Bake Off (WeCreate)

Contestants can leave their entries from this time until 16.00 – note there is a €2 entry fee.

11.30 – Our Relationship with Money (1.5 hour workshop in WeCreate Classroom) NEED TO PROMOTE SEPARATELY
Sustainable communities often have a different way of working with money, but how might the personal relationship we have with money now be getting in our way? In this interactive, engaging workshop, money coach, Karen McAllister, will introduce 8 money archetypes and with the help of facilitator, Chris Chapman, will explore their relevance to those of us working towards more sustainable communities and the potential for us to approach our relationship with money differently. We are inviting people to ‘pay from the heart’ for this workshop – come along and find out what that means! For more details on mindful money coaching, please see http://themindfulmoneycoach.com/

12.30 – Pony Rides (ongoing)

12.30 – Apple Identification – A tour of the orchard of heritage apples.

13.00 – Real Bread – Riot Rye Bakehouse & Bread School (WeCreate – 20mins)

13.30 – ECOLEARN – Ecovillage Presentation and Tour (WeCreate Main Space followed by a walk around the project – 1.5 hours)

15.00 – Fab Lab Tour (WeCreate 15mins)

15.00 – Composting Demonstration (Leaving from WeCreate to Compost Demo area – 30 mins)

15.30 – A performance of Children of Lir (Amphitheatre – 30 minutes – if raining in WeCreate)
This short physical theatre adaptation of the Irish classic story where four children are transformed into swans and cursed to roam the oceans for nine hundred years. This play explores separation and coming together, identity, exile, loss and transitioning.

15.45 – Cloughjordan Community Farm Walk (Leaving from the front of WeCreate)

16.00 – Apples and Local Food Culture (Amphitheatre – 30 minutes – if raining in WeCreate)
A discussion on apples as a core element in a bioregional approach to resilient communities.

17.00 – Apple Bake Off – announcing the winners (WeCreate)

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