Buy Great Food

Community Supported Agriculture is a step up from an allotment, and Kinsale has pioneered schemes to encourage a shared self sufficiency in basics like potatoes and oats. Residents team up with a farmer, and share the investment in a crop from beginning to end. Equally dividing the costs and the harvest. Plenty of prayers have been said for the half acre of heritage grade oats that is expected to yield enough ‘ready to cook’ roasted porridge oats to see 20 families through the winter, with healthy food before school. And with good weather some of it may end up on a hotel breakfast menu downtown.   [more]

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Kinsale Green Growers on Facebook

Kinsale Green Growers is the first real enterprise, with real new local employment, to come out of the world’s first Transition Town initiative. Since 2005 Kinsale has been working towards becoming a much more sustainable place to live, work and enjoy, and the girls have taken it to heart, creating a food farm from scratch, which currently supplies 30 households with fresh, naturally grown, tasty, healthy vegetables every week throughout 40 weeks of the year. Visit them on facebook at KinsaleGreenGrowers. Apart from the more usual 3 varieties of kale, and maize interspersed with multi colored squashes, this farm boasts its own insect hotel to encourage the biodiversity necessary to maintain naturally healthy soil for years to come.   [more]