Our recent event with Outstanding in the field, was covered by some food bloggers. http://marmitelover.blogspot.com/2011/09/outstanding-in-field-at-ballymaloe.html

Alys Fowler dedicated her book The Thrifty Forager “to my mother – thank you for teaching me to eat my weeds” – how cool is that! It’s a terrific book; Alys’s mum taught her how to forage when she was just a tot, the first thing she distinctly remembers is sucking nectar from clover flowers. [...]

Recipes Heirloom Potato EventShanagarry GIY Group Monthly Meeting at Ballymaloe Cookery School Heirloom Potato Event Lissadell Estate in Co Sligo has the largest private collection of potatoes in Ireland. Dermot Carey and David Langford will give a talk on the collection from the Victoria Walled Garden on Lissadell Estate at Ballymaloe Cookery School. They will [...]

We had a terrific day last Saturday, the winners of the Slow Food Grandmothers Day Examiner Competition arrived to enjoy their prize – a day at the Ballymaloe Cookery School and Gardens –  six grandchildren, four grannies and a couple of mums. [...]

Did we ever think we would hear a discussion on the RTE airwaves about people choosing to go hungry rather than default on their mortgage for fear of loosing their house – the reality has stunned the Irish nation. One can just imagine how paralysed with fear many must be [...]