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Anything can happen down a small boreen!

Anything can happen down a small boreen! Rena Blake and Lisa Fingleton live on an organic social farm near down a small boreen near Ballybunion in North Kerry called The Barna Way. Both are passionate about creativity, community, equality and the nature. They recently planted 10,000 native Irish trees on...

Culture Night with m i n k (Moving Image Network Kerry)

Culture Night with m i n k (Moving Image Network Kerry) m i n k (Moving Image Network Kerry) is a Kerry-based collective of filmmakers and artists. As part of Culture Night 2020, there is a group exhibition at ANAM Arts & Culture Centre in Killarney featuring films by Eavan Aiken & Jennifer Redmond, Treasa...

Listowel Food Fair 7th-11th 2019

Listowel Food Fair 7th-11th 2019 The 25th annual Listowel Food Fair, will be held from Thursday November 7th to Monday 11th 2010. Lisa Fingleton will be speaking about her book ‘The Local Food Project’ at the Food Academy on Friday 8th October and also at the Business Development Seminar...

30 Day Local Food Challenge

30 Day Local Food Challenge Well done to the 300 people who joined the ’30 Day Local Food Challenge this year’. It seemed particularly urgent and relevant this year in the context of Climate Change, Greta Thunberg speaking at the UN and of course Brexit. Yet over the last four years...

Kerry Visual Artists Showcase

Kerry Visual Artists Showcase The work of seven artists feature in this year’s Kerry Visual Artists’ Showcase: Lisa Fingleton, Des Fitzgerald, Kaye Maahs, James Hayes, Julie Lovett, Nicole Tilley and Norman McCloskey This is the fifth annual showcase and it runs until October 31st at Department of...

Foodture Article: Could you eat local for 30 days or more?

Foodture Article: Could you eat local for 30 days or more? Could you eat a diet consisting of only local food? Im not talking about the food you buy in a local store. I mean truly local, seasonal food direct from a farm or food producer? Well that’s what Lisa Fingleton asked herself and set about doing over 3 years ago…… Read...

Irish Times: The 30 Day Local Food Challenge

Irish Times: The 30 Day Local Food Challenge Ever since reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, in which she documents her family’s year of eating locally in the US, I’ve been entertaining the idea of eating only Irish food for a year. Could I really live without chocolate, pasta, rice,...