Ireland: A Cork city farm that’s driving a revolution in how we eat
A quiet revolution already under way – people determined to feed their communities with locally grown food that nourishes.
By Kathriona Devereux
Echo Live
Oct 7, 2025
Excerpt:
There are few farms that can claim to be ten minutes from Shandon Street. Glenbrook Farm, just beyond Ballyvolane, is one of them.
Home to free-range pigs and Cork Rooftop Farm’s expanded acreage, it’s become a hub for people thinking seriously about how to feed Cork from the fields that surround our city.
I was there last week for a panel discussion on building robust food systems for the modern age. The business-as-usual approach of large farms growing food and transporting it vast distances to supermarkets isn’t going to hack it in our climate-disrupted era.
The guest speaker, Canadian market gardener Jean-Martin Fortier, was in town to spread the word that small can be beautiful when it comes to feeding a community.
Ireland sells itself as a ‘food island’, yet much of what we eat is imported. More than 80% of the fruit and vegetables we consume comes from overseas. Most of our onions, carrots, and broccoli are grown abroad – crops that could thrive in Irish soil.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/ireland-a-cork-city-farm-thats-driving-a-revolution-in-how-we-eat/
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