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This Farming Life - July


CastleFarm - Drilling for Water
Author: Jenny Young
Jenny Young describes dealing with one of the unwelcome (but essential) hidden costs that challenge all farmers. With all this rain readers might find it difficult to believe that Castlefarm has been suffering water shortages. As a household we are part of a local group water scheme and for the past 2 years, due to water shortages in the area, the water has been rationed more and more frequently.
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Insider View - Doing Nothing


Lucy & Johnny Madden
Author: Lucy Madden
Turning her attention to the wisdom of ‘letting the hare sit’, Lucy Madden contemplates (among other things) the benefits of masterful inactivity. Our summer, henceforth to be known as the monsoon season, has caused me to remember the words spoken by John Cleese in the film ‘Clockwise’; “it’s not the despair I mind, it’s the hope.”
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Triskel Goats Cheese


Triskel Goats Cheese
Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them
Triskel Cheeses are hand-ladled French-style soft goats cheeses and a semi-hard cow’s cheese, made by Breton woman Anna Leveque in a small production unit at her home in Portlaw, Co Waterford, using locally sourced milk. Recently recognised by Euro-Toques in their 2012 EirGrid/Euro-Toques Food Awards, the Triskel cheeses are already popular with discerning chefs and were nominated by Euro-Toques chef Michael Quinn, of Waterford Castle Hotel.
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Sea Vegetables


Manus McGonagle - Quality Sea Veg
Author: In Season
“Seaweed has always been an important part of life for Ireland’s coastal communities, for use on the land and in the home,” says Sligo GP and Slow Food member Prannie Rhatigan in her book Irish Seaweed Kitchen (www.prannie.com). “Today, the shoreline is mysterious to many of us - but it’s as familiar as the back garden to families living along the coast or on islands, who have grown up with the rhythm of the tides and the briney harvest that is revealed every twelve hours.”
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Book Review - The Chef & I, a nourishing narrative


The Chef & I, a nourishing narrative (WiseWords Ltd, hardback, 178pp, full colour, €25; eBook €4.99)
Author: Cookbook Reviews
The world of publishing is all topsy-turvy these days and, while book sales are generally in sharp decline – due mainly, we are told, to the rise of the internet and related areas - we see a growing number of bloggers successfully publishing books.
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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for June - EatGalway


Jp McMahon & Drigin Gaffney & Enda McEvoy - EatGalway
Author: Just Ask
Something very different for the ‘Just Ask!’ Restaurant of the Month in June as, for the first time ever, the award goes not to a restaurant but to a group of establishments, in Galway city.
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Seafood Special


Seafood
Author: Georgina Campbell
Once the summer begins to kick in the annual drift towards the seaside starts too, so fish and seafood soon take pride of place on menus and home dinner tables alike. There are great goings-on in the world of seafood at the moment and, although the underlying reasons for a lot of the activity may be alarming – global warming, over fishing, depleted stocks of many species – it is heartening to see attention focused on finding solutions.
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The Seafood Interview supported by BIM - The Crazy Crab Café & Bistro


Mike Crowley - The Crazy Crab Kilmore Quay County Wexford Ireland
Author: Marilyn Bright
In the first of a new series, Marilyn Bright looks at the highs and lows of some of Ireland’s leading seafood restaurants - and finds out what makes them tick. They keep things simple at The Crazy Crab Café & Bistro, Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford, proving that you don’t need fancy dishes to please the punters – just really fresh fish that tastes of itself.
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The Eunice Power Column - Early Summer Treats


Eunice Power
Author: Eunice Power
Summer has arrived bringing with it elderflower blossom, I could smell its delicate perfume as I walked in the field behind my house this evening. As I inhaled the the balmy fragrance I had a rush of panic – quick pick it before it rains and the blossoms are washed away.
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The Darina Allen Column - Sri Lanka


Darina Allen
Author: Darina Allen
We love our cuppa in Ireland and are still drinking more tea per head than any other country in the world. Sadly though, nowadays most cups of tea are made from teabags rather than good loose tea which I am totally convinced makes a far superior brew. On a trip to Sri Lanka in 2010 I visited Handunugoda Tea Estate only a few miles from Galle, Mr Gunaratne whose family have been tea planters for 400 years, proudly showed us around.
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