There are some fantastic festivals on during the Autumn this year with local produce, children's entertainment, cookery demos all sorts of activities for the whole family. These in particular are my favourite! Midleton Food Festival - 9th September, Midleton. Co. Cork. Waterford Harvest Festival - 10th to 19th September. Savour Food Festival - 22nd to 25th of October in Kilkenny Tasteworks classes for Autumn ...

Produce is pouring out of the garden, we can't keep up (thank goodness for a bit of rain the past few days, those plants can drink!) and warm days mean lovely summery food. A new class schedule for the next few months is up so check it out and see what is on offer. Someday when I get a minute I ...

We have beautiful loose leaves, baby spinach and rocket coming now this week, it is available loose or in 100g bags at 3 Euro per bag. It is really special for those of you who are salad lovers!

Delicious meat-free recipes will be cooked this Thursday night using fresh vegetables, herbs and store cupboard ingredients. Risotto the traditional way, pasta dishes, lovely baked vegetable dishes and a couple of desserts maybe...you get to sample everything so come hungry! Telephone to book a place, cost is 40 Euro per person including supper.

It's amazing how travel can change your viewpoint. I have just spent a few days in a really interesting part of Germany close to the French and Swiss borders. The Black Forest is a year round holiday destination - winter offers great skiing and sledding, hearty food, and crazy carnivals. Summertime is all about hiking, swimming, and boating in the ...

The shop is  open from 12pm on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The range of vegetables is always broad, some weeks I have big bunches of fresh basil and fresh coriander. Bread is baked each morning, there aren't too many requests for cakes and biscuits at the moment however! Everyone is on a post-Christmas reduction of sugar I think...but I do ...

After a long Christmas break we are open again...well we would have been open last week if we hadn't been up to our eyeballs in snow. Who would think it? Looking out this morning to sunny blue skies, mild temperatures, and green hills it is hard to see how on earth it could have been minus 14 here last week...our ...

So, as we all slowly attempt to get back into routines of work, school, and home after Christmas what are our food choices at this time of the year? I personally have an aversion to sugar at the moment - not through some little voice in my head telling me to be healthier, but just feeling overloaded after weeks of ...