At the Whit weekend we celebrated the sixth birthday of Midleton Farmers Market. The market has gone from strength to strength since that first [...]

I’ve always thought that every family should produce its own ‘cookbook’ so that the grown children can reproduce the much-loved comfort food of their childhood – Granny’s Apple Cake, Mammy’s Gravy or Lamb Stew, Auntie Betty’s Queen of Puddings …. Most families, even those [...]

Recipes Globe Artichokes with Melted ButterBlackcurrant leaf sorbetBlackcurrant Leaf LemonadeRoast Beetroot with Ardsallagh Goat Cheese and Balsamic VinegarBeetroot TopsBallymaloe French DressingPaul Waddington is a ‘wannabe’ farmer who lives in a terraced house in Brixton in the London suburbs. He and his wife longed to be self-sufficient. “Many of us dream of ‘four acres and freedom’ [...]

I’ve just got a present of a wonderful bouquet, more precious than orchids – a bunch of fresh organic Irish asparagus. The season is short, just 5 or 6 [...]