Can a local, digital marketplace bridge the gap between small-scale Irish food producers and the modern consumer? And just how feasible is this model? The North Tipperary Online Farmers Market provides a compelling case study in the scalability and financial viability of community-led food hubs. A long-term study of the Read more…
At Feeding Ourselves in Cloughjordan this year, we continued with our joint struggle, shared solidarity activities with farmers in Palestine. We brought Mahmoud Zwahre in from the West Bank via live video link on the Friday night, to tell us about farming there with settler attackers constantly increasing. Mahmoud pointed to Read more…
Welcome to Feeding Ourselves 2026! This is our annual gathering, one which serves a growing Community of Practice of local food producers and organisers, community food advocates, agri-food and land-use researchers, food justice campaigners, Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) advisors and local food facilitators. Feeding Ourselves the gathering takes place Read more…
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.