Farm Profile: Our journey to organic growing…

15th July 2021

Starting from scratch  by Jeremy Haworth We began with a jungle, a half-acre overrun by almost three decades of neglect. An invasive thicket of bamboo vied with aggressive regiments of...

OGI Internship: A Day in the Life – Castleruddery Organic Farm

14th July 2021

A Day in the Life (Summer 2021)  Continuing our series of blogs by our current interns we hear from Sally who tells us about her impressions of visiting two successful...

OGI Newsletter

14th June 2021

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OGI Internship: A Day in the Life – Training Update

14th June 2021

A day in the life…  Maria, who is currently undertaking the OGI internship program in Organic Horticulture on Glasraí farm in Co. Mayo, tells us about one of the workshop...

Can Organic Agriculture feed the world?

14th June 2021

Can Organic Agricutlure Feed the World? by Noel Clinton   Before any discussion on whether organic farming methods can feed a growing world population is undertaken it is important to...

Seeds for the Future

13th May 2021

Seeds for the Future Jason Horner The pandemic has been a time of huge upheaval, but from that upheaval, new opportunities have arisen. For example, growers have benefitted from an...

Supervalu Food Academy Programme

6th March 2021

My journey through the Food Academy Programme and ending up on the Supervalu shelves by Una Wycherley     I have been farming and growing for many years working and...

Growing in a glasshouse

27th February 2021

Growing in a glasshouse by Oisín Kenny       2021 is year 9 for me as a market gardener, another ‘year like no other’. It is at this time...

Horticultural Hindsight

1st February 2021

Horticultural Hindsight (or how to reinvent yourself after a long career) by Jason Horner   (originally written for the Organic Grower (magazine of the Organic Growers Alliance, UK) in Winter...

Looking after your back

31st January 2021

Taking care of your back by Aitor Cullinan   Lopsided When I was about 18, I started getting a niggle in the small of my back. At 20, I worked...