The first Feeding Ourselves newsletter of the year is out. In the issue you’ll find: A lot of great work and collaboration is taking shape across the network. Have a read and see what’s coming up.
26th to the 29th of March WeCreate Centre, Cloughjordan We’re delighted to share the dates for the annual Community of Practice gathering bringing together growers, organisers, researchers, policymakers and community food advocates. As in previous years, the Gathering will unfold over four themed days, each with its own focus. Whether Read more…
Report from the Community Wealth Building Webinar – 2nd December 2025 1. Introduction and Project Context This report captures the key insights and discussions from the on-line event held on the 2nd December 2025 which featured presentations from Julian Boys (CLES), Sean McCabe (Boh’s), and Caroline Whyte (Feasta), along with Read more…
Unpacking the role Digital Farmers Markets can play for building resilient local food economies. January 19th 2026 15.00-16.30 Location: Online (zoom) Free to attend – booking essential – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nt96D4sjRcKUR9n3nJcaFQ This webinar explores the potential of digital platforms to transform local food systems. We will examine the opportunities and constraints of Read more…
The Feeding Ourselves Local Food Symposium, held on 30 October in Regent’s House, Trinity, marked a major milestone in the Strengthening Local Food Economies in Ireland project — a two-year collaboration between Talamh Beo, Cultivate, and Feasta, supported by the Irish Environmental Network and in and delivered with over a Read more…
How do you fit complicated conversations about food system transformation into an enormous music festival?
Thursday 30th October I 13.30 – 17.30 I Regent House, Trinity College Dublin
How can we better support local food producers and nourish communities through stronger local food economies in Ireland?
A workshop was held with the Open Food Network Ireland (OFN) and the CODECS project, which focuses on living labs. OFN is a non-proprotory digital farmers market platform, while CODECS is a Horizon Europe initiative involving partners around Europe working on “sustainable digitalisation”.
Co-Design Webinar held on June 25th 2025 that explored
Supports & Training for Short Food Supply Chain Advisors
How Policies & Pathways Can Better Support Ireland’s Local Food Producers.
A Feeding Ourselves webinar that asked: what would it take for local food producers to finally get the support they deserve?
Feeding Ourselves saw 20+ partners from 40+ organizations, and 180 people over 4 days and nights in Cloughjordan. As a snapshot of the food sovereignty (agroecological and good/fair food) movement in Ireland, it’s a great barometer of where things are at. There are many different ways to try to encapsulate what it is and how it works, but, for this author, here are four things which emerged from Feeding Ourselves 2025. Oliver Moore reports.
At Feeding Ourselves, we held a session on the situation for farmers and food producers in Palestine. This featured a presentation from Oliver Moore, who visited the West Bank in December 2024, and interventions from Edwin Brookes of the Land Workers Alliance in the UK and Yasmeen El Hasan from Union of Agricultural Work Committees, (UAWC) live from Ramallah.
Making meaningful progress towards achieving the SDGs and adapting to climate change will require increased trust and cohesion between sectors; stronger partnerships between civil society and public and private organisations; and informed and engaged citizens active in their communities. Cultivate’s CONVERGENCE programme of events in 2019 will facilitate increased cooperation Read more…