Slow Food Limerick at Curraghchase

The Slow Food movement is gathering momentum with the groundswell of small businesses in the Industry spreading the word of the benefits of good food both for value and quality.

Rigney's Farmhouse B&B was the location this Sunday for a gathering of like minded people and the general public eager to learn about the possibilities of keeping Pigs, Bees and even a few Short Horn Cattle. There was information on growing your own mushrooms also as well as an exhibition of antique farm machinery and A demonstration by Farriers on making and fitting horse shoes.

Local business were present with recent award winners Ponaire on hand for those looking for a caffeine boost as well as Con Trass's juces and Caroline Rigney's Pork products available.

Derina Allen was also on hand to impart some advice on home made Jam and baking and West Limerick Ratio were on hand for Music and a Live broadcast from the event.

Again the future of this country is in the hands of its entrepreneur's.

Photographs from - Munster Images Event Photography

Farm Open Day - National Organic Week 2009

The Nano Nagle Centre for HERITAGE, SPIRITUALITY & ECOLOGY is situated on 32 acres of land which is farmed organically by a community of Presentation Sisters in the heart of the Blackwater Valley.

To celebrate, National Organic Week, the Nano Nagle Centre for HERITAGE, SPIRITUALITY & ECOLOGY are hosting a Farm Open Day on the evening of Wednesday 16th September (4pm – 7pm), where members of the public and media will be invited to visit our farm and experience how and where local organic food is produced. There will be plenty of scope to meet the animals in residence, which include some pedigree Kerry cows, mountain sheep, 200 laying hens, 2 donkeys, 2 cats and 3 khaki campbell ducks! The polytunnels, kitchen garden, field scale vegetables and allotment project are a great example of the variety of crops that can be locally and organically produced in Ireland.
In line with this year’s Organic Week theme, we are hosting a cookery demonstration which will given by Clodagh McKenna. She will be cooking up a storm on a barbeque, using fresh organic produce from the farm and from other local artisan producers. There will be lots of organic delights to sample, emphasising the message that good quality organic ingredients make great tasting healthy meals.

Activities Planned for the Day
- Guided farm walks – including beef, sheep and poultry
- Tour of kitchen, herb and field scale vegetable gardens
- Tour of tunnels showing the possibility of growing organic food all year round
- Powerpoint presentation on the Sustainable Energy Features of the Centre
- Renowned chef Clodagh McKenna doing a cookery demonstration using organic produce from the farm.
- Sampling and tasting organic food and mingling with like minded foodies
- Talk on health benefits of organic food


Organic Products on Display/Sampling
We will host a farmers market where we will sell our eggs and seasonal organic produce from our gardens and a selection of organic preserves. Organic teas, coffees and treats along with homemade organic cordials will be aplenty.
We will also invite other local producers from our on site farmer’s market to come and set up a stall.
Music will be provided by a group of young local traditional musicians.
Leaflets on organic food, growing vegetables, sustainable agriculture and relevant courses will be available.

For further information, please contact:

Kitty Scully

Farm Manager & Course Developer
Nano Nagle Centre
Ballygriffin
Mallow
Co Cork

Tel: 022 26411
Fax: 022 26953
Email: kitty@nanonaglebirthplace.ie
www.nanonaglebirthplace.ie

Ponaire takes Gold for Connoisseur Expresso.

One for the coffee lovers - congrats to Ponaire Coffee, based in Annacotty, Co.Limerick for winning GOLD in the Great Taste Awards for their Connoisseur Espresso Blend on 14th July in London.
The coffee was blind tasted along with numerous other coffees. They have a great roasting house and coffee shop in Annacotty http://www.ponaire.ie/ well done!!

Tullamore Show starts this weekend

The Tullamore Show opens its doors for us all this weekend - please stay away rain!. If your going keep an eye out for Limerick based business The Little Mile Company who have a stand showcasing their organic milk. A group of Limerick and Tipperary farmers have come together to join forces and bring their offering of local organic milk to the Irish Market. Go and have a taste - you'll like it!

Anyone else got any recommendation of stall's to look out for at upcoming shows

Tullamore, Limerick, Cappamore or elsewhere?

LCOEB now on Facebook

Just completed setting up our facebook page.
Just click on the facebook button on the side of our blog to visit.
Hope to be gatering lots of "Fans" this week!

LCOEB now on Linkedin

You can view our public profile and add us to your Linked in network from [ here ] we hope to grow this network and encourage interaction between small businesses in County Limerick and to facilitate networking between clients.

Welcome to our new Blog

This is the new home for the LCOEB blog which will be used to keep our clients up to date on new developments in local enterprise in County Limerick.

Our Blog will contain dates and additional information on upcoming training events, and will also allow you to offer your feedback through online polls.

We also will be featuring a "company of the month section" where we will do a short interview with one of our clients who is going forward for the enterprise awards profiling their company and getting their take on the current business environment.

We also hope to get the input of some of our mentors to allow a wide range of information to be posted here.

Thanks for your interest.

Limerick County Enterprise Board