The Local Food Project: Greenbites Podcast by Ellie O Byrne
Greenbites podcast interview with Lisa Fingleton and Rena Blake on being the change and growing local food.
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The Local Food Project at The 8th Pan European Conference on Digital Education, Slovenia
Delighted to be part of the 8th Pan-European Conference on Digital Education hosted by Primera in Slovenia. I gave the key note presentation ‘The local food project: Think global, eat local’ about the power of eating local food. This conference is devoted...
How do we love?
How do we love? How do we speak of things that we fear? How do we hear the things that we need to hear? This is especially challenging when there is so much divisiveness and fear mongering in the world? I wrote this song while working on The Floating Flagstone with...
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)
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...
Leic Snámha /The Swimming Flagstone: Creative Ireland Kerry 2020
Leic Snámha_The Swimming Flagstone_Creative Communities Project_ Lisa Fingleton_Rena Blake _2020
Gaining Ground Reflections: A day long symposium reflecting on Public Art in a rural context, Glor, Ennis, 4th September 2020
Gaining Ground Reflections_A day long symposium reflecting on Public Art in a rural context _POSTPONED TO LATER 2020
Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas 2020: Farming, Conservation and Art (Postponed)
Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas. Panel on Farming, Conservation and Art hosted by Paddy Woodworth
‘Lisa’s Growing Her Own Way: Reaching For a Greener World’, by Mike Ahern, Kerry’s Eye 26th March 2020
Grow your own vegetables and buy local- this is how Ballybunion woman Lisa Fingleton is taking action to reduce her impact on the environment. By reducing her need for plastic packaging, the unnecessary waste of carbon emissions during transport and the use of...
THE POWER OF EATING LOCAL: An Evening with Lisa Fingleton at The Urban Coop, Limerick
Join author, artist and grower Lisa Fingleton for an interactive, visual talk on how we can take action on climate change by eating local food, Lisa will be on hand after the talk to sign her book “the Local Food Project”. 7.30, Thursday 28th November, The...
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
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
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...
Join the 30 day local food challenge this September 2019:Think Global, Eat Local
Would you like to join the ’30 day local food challenge’ this September 2019? It’s a great way to eat tasty, fresh food; support local food producers and raise awareness about community resilience, climate change and food miles? The challenge...
Eating to Save the World at Wild Mind Festival, Fenit, April 2019
Wild Mind is a celebration of our natural environment, nestled between the Kerry mountains and the Wild Atlantic Ocean it holds space for people to engage with the local environment, to learn about our wildlife systems and to open our minds to potential for change our...
CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSCIOUSNESS: OUR LEGACY FOR THE EARTH, Findhorn Foundation, Scotland, April 20-26, 2019
Delighted to be taking part in this unique conference with 350 artists, indigenous, activists, leaders, and visionaries including Vandana Shiva PhD
Radio Interview: Lisa Fingleton in Conversation With Joe McGill, Radio Kerry, 10th April, 2019
Joe McGill’s guest on Radio Kerry’s In Conversation (6pm 10th April 2019) is Lisa Fingleton. Lisa is an artist, filmmaker, writer and grower. Living and working on a small organic farm near the sea in Ballybunion, she has spent many years cultivating deep-rooted...
Feeding Ourselves: The Local Food Project, Whale Theatre, Greystones, 30th March 2019
“The dynamic artist, filmmaker, grower and author of the acclaimed book, ‘The Local Food Project’, Lisa Fingleton will talk about how we we can take action on climate change by eating local. An inspiring afternoon for people who are passionate about...
Irish Examiner: How cool would it be to serve Christmas dinner and say, ‘everything came from within 20 miles of here?
Artist and food activist Lisa Fingleton ate only foods produced in Ireland on her 30-day local food challenge. She tells Ellie O’Byrne about her vision for a future where our season’s greetings are also homegrown, seasonal greetings. Retail giant Iceland’s banned...
Irish Examiner: Food revolution – Filmmaker Lisa Fingleton’s BLT moment
“Here’s a good table-quiz question: How many ingredients are in a BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) sandwich? Three, plus the bread, spread and condiments? Think again. Kerry artist and filmmaker Lisa Fingleton asked herself the same question when she bought...