Announcing Our New Spring Harvest Festival!
For our next city-wide food festival, we’re changing things up—there won’t be an autumn Food Harvest Festival this year, but instead we’ll be hosting a Spring Growing Festival in 2020! Why the change? In Cork City, we’ve noticed there are an impressive number of food-growing initiatives popping up all around. By holding our festival in […]
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CFPC Food Awards 2019 Reveal a Promising Future for Cork’s Food System
It turns out there are loads of people working to create a healthier, more sustainable food system throughout County Cork. We had the honour of meeting many of these people when they came together for the 3rd annual Cork Food Policy Council Sustainable Food Awards, an event we hosted on the evening of February 12, […]
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This year’s Harvest Festival schedule has so much to look forward to
The Cork Food Harvest Festival is coming and it’s not to be missed! It’s happening soon: October 19th, 20th and 21st, 2018. Have a look at the official schedule to see just what we have in store for you: See the PDF of our flyer with the full schedule of events for the Cork Food […]
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See the Video that Will Excite You about 2018’s Food Harvest Festival
Last October, the Cork Food Policy Council put on a Food Harvest Festival that was so much fun – and the video below proves it. Watch the video to glimpse a few of the food-focused events that took place over the weekend. These include talks by expert gardeners and foragers, high-energy music performances, tours of community […]
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Common Agricultural Policy: CFPC’s Concerns about the Future of Irish Food
It’s not often you encounter farmers, politicians and members of the public gathered in the same room to talk about food. So when the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) announced a series of public meetings throughout Ireland to discuss the upcoming Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post 2020 reform, the Cork Food Policy […]
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