Jacques Brennan is the author of the blog – Le Journal, find it at www.hungrysoulplantpower.com and is a frequent collaborator with the West Cork arts and health organisation, MusicAlive. He is also a guest food contributor to West Cork People. I grew up eating mostly plants. When it came to […]
Food & Drinks
Bandon-based, food supplement business SOMEGA have just launched a new liquid Vitamin C food supplement, with a range of Vitamin D supplements to follow shortly. According to nutritionist and co-founder, Dr. Paula Gaynor “SOMEGA’s new range of Vitamin C and Vitamin D supplements are a natural extension to our product […]
Hungry Crow are five years in the markets. It was the May Bank Holiday five years ago when the Clonakilty purveyors of decadent delights in dark chocolate wandered through Skibbereen Market offering tasters. The markets were shut down on their fifth anniversary this May Bank Holiday, so Niamh and Mark […]
Denis O’Donovan, his wife Collette, and their son Eoghan farm on the Wild Atlantic Way between Rosscarbery and Glandore where their Jersey cross Friesian herd produce high solids of milk of superb quality from grazed grass on Roury Hill Farm. The family are part of a group of West Cork […]
Carbery was founded in 1965 as a joint venture between four creameries and Express Dairies, UK. Now fully owned by the four West Cork co-ops of Bandon, Barryroe, Drinagh and Lisavaird, the group has been proudly producing cheese, dairy and nutritional ingredients from its facility in Ballineen for over 50 […]
West Cork farmer Vanessa Kiely O’Connor has always had a passion for nature and wildlife and loves the flexibility that farming allows with family life. “I feel grounded working outdoors,” she explains simply “and I love working with cows.” The mother-of-two, who has built a best in class dairy farm […]