Christmas 2021 – Letter from the Chairperson

19th December 2021

Christmas 2021 – Letter from the Chairperson     As another year draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our members for...

SeameGro Trial at Airfield

16th November 2021

SeameGro Trial (Airfield) Colm O’Driscoll, head gardener at Airfield, tells us about trialing a seaweed based plant biofertilizer.   Farming conference season is upon us with BioFarm 2021 and Future...

A Fibreshed for Ireland

13th October 2021

A Fibreshed for Ireland by Malú Colorín     “The soil that feeds us is also the soil that clothes us.” —Rebecca Burgess, founder & director of Fibershed   As...

OGI Internship: A Day in the Life – Glasrai Farm

22nd August 2021

A day in the life – Glasraí Farm  As part of our series of blogs by our current interns, Maria Mc Donnell charts the changes from winter to summer at...

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...