Flour Power

07/18/20 • 41 min

Where does our flour come from? Can Ireland grow wheat and other milling grains? Green Bites follows the story of flour from farm to loaf with Emma Clutterbuck of Oak Forest Mills in Co Kilkenny and Cork-based baker Ben Lebon of The Natural Foods Bakery.

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Losing the Plot

When Ireland went into Covid-19 lockdown, allotments were not given an exemption under food production and allotment-holders all over the country were locked out during a vital growing window. Ellie visits Cork allotments on the day they re-open and enlists the help of Junior Agriculture Minister Pippa Hackett and food historian Regina Sexton to ask....when it comes to growing our own, has Ireland lost the plot?

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Could YOU live on foods only grown in Ireland for a month each year? Lisa Fingleton is the author of The Local Food Project, based on her 30-day Local Food Challenge: each September she invites people to try eating only food grown in Ireland. Her partner Rena Blake is the North Kerry co-ordinator for Kerry Social Farming. Together they live on a 20 acre organic smallholding called Barna, where they try to embody the saying “be the change you want to see in the world.”