Organic News
IOFGA Conference and Annual General Meeting
The 26th IOFGA AGM will be held on Sunday 21st of September during National Organic Week. This year we are taking the event out into the fields and are holding it at Coolanowle Organic Farm, Ballickmoyler which is on the Carlow/Laois border. The farm is run by Jimmy and Bernadine Mulhall and is a mixed holding with beef, lamb, pigs and some arable crops.
Feasting in Leitrim
A two-day harvest festival will take place in Drumshanbo and the Organic Centre, Rossinver, Co. Leitrim on 13th and 14th September, 2008. Celebrating the best of local food is the theme for this year's festival.
Orgapod wins Great Taste Award
Nafisa Brennan is celebrating her one star Gold Great Taste Award presented to her company, Orgapod for its organic Oriental Chai at the Great Taste Awards in London.
Kellys shine on
The list of awards piling up at Moon Shine Dairies just goes on and on. They've received a Bridgestone Guide award again this year as well as Nantwich Cheese awards and are waiting to see the colour of their medal at the British Cheese Awards.
New Breeders Website Launched
Farmers are finally beginning to catch up with the internet and, just to prove it, the latest pioneering initiative in Irish farming is bringing the nation's livestock to the internet. Two young entrepreneurs have launched organic cattle.ie, a website for advertising and sourcing organic and pedigree cattle in Ireland and the UK. Developed and produced by Dónall O'Connor and Micheal O'Donnell, organiccattle.ie is based in the Enterprise Acceleration Centre in Limerick Institute of Technology.
National Organic Conference
Bord Bia's organic conference which will be held on 4th September at the Waterford Institute of Technology will have the theme Maximising Ireland's Potential.
School garden sweeps organic first prize at agricultural show
Scoil Naomh Molaise pupils in Grange, Co. Sligo have been tending their vegetable garden in the grounds of the local parish priest's house for almost two years. This year their mid-summer harvest yielded enough produce to hand out free herbs and salad bags to visitors from their information stall at the North Sligo Agricultural Show. They were delighted to hear they won First Prize in the Tray of Organic Vegetables category, and a healthy Second Prize for their juicy legumes in the Three Pods of Peas competition.
Inagh gold
Inagh Farmhouse Cheese has added to its list of awards by winning a one star Gold Great Taste Award for its St. Tola Hard Cheese.
New organic supermarket opens
A new 'organic supermarket' has been opened on Main Street, Blackrock in south Dublin.
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Well known organic goat’s cheese makers, Inagh Farmhouse, have launched two new products in the St. Tola range. Named ‘Divine’ and...
