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March 2021 There is a sense of disorder in the world right now, normal life for us is on pause for the past year, but not so for the natural world; birds,...
For the last year or so we have been a producer for a great new concept in local food markets - Neighbourfood.The idea behind Neighbourfood is that customers...
The words ‘Hungry Gap’ are enough to strike fear in the heart of any commercial vegetable grower. This is the time of year when there is next to nothing to...
Darina Allen Podcasts
Darina Allen speaks with Ben Shewry, A New Zealand Born Chef and owner of Attica Restaurant, Melbourne, Australia. You can also listen to full podcast on...
Darina Allen with the Ferguson family and all at the Skibbereen Farmers Market in West Cork every Saturday without fail. Cheerful farmers, growers,...
Pumpkin picking party
We had a pumpkin picking party in the 1 acre glasshouse with the Shanagarry local school children pop them all into big crates to use in the cookery school and...
Know your tomatoes…
We have over 40 varieties of organic heirloom tomatoes coming to the end of the season, growing in the one-acre glasshouse, and here are a few of them… Can you...
Darina Allen attended the conference as a guest speaker and brought two chefs who teach at the Ballymaloe Cookery School to help with the catering for the...
The Ballymaloe Urban Garden is a new edition this year to our 100 acre organic farm and gardens, with the idea of demonstrating how you can have a manageable,...
The inaugural meeting of the 'Raw milk Ireland' dairy farmers with Tim & Darina Allen at the Ballymaloe Cookery School. Facebook page here.