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This Year’s Line Up...
We are delighted to have so many of Ireland’s best and most loved producers in attendance:
Confirmed Exhibitors....
88 Food Co., Aine’s Chocolate’s, Alex’s Pate, Aruna Sauce Co, Bellingham Blue Cheese, Bia Blasta, Boyne Valley Blue Cheese, Boolie’s Farm Canteen; Burkes Farm Ice Cream, Burren Smokehouse, Cakes & Bakes, Cashel Blue Cheeses, Castlemine Farm, Cathy’s Health for Spelt; Coffee Angel, Con Traas Apple Farm, Cookies of Character, Cooleeney Cheese, Coolea Farmhouse Cheese, Coolfin Organic Backery, Cratloe Hills Sheep Cheese, Crepes in the City, Dave’s Relish, David Llewellyn Apples Farm, Doherty Butchers, Dunany Organic Flour, Durrus Farmhouse Cheese, Foods of Athenry, Floods Butchers, Forge Restaurant, Fying Baby Cake Co., G's Jams, GIY North Meath, Good Life Food Co,ourmet Street Pizza, G Green Saffron Spice Co., Imelda Mullen Garden Produce, Inch House Traditional Puddings, Jack McCarthy Meats, Janet's Country Fayre, Kennedy’s Irish Honey, Kilbeg Dairy Delights, Killycoony House Preserves, Killeen Farmhouse Cheese, Kilbeggan Oats, Kingfisher tea, Knockdrinna Farmhouse Cheese, Lilliput Foods, Lorge Chocolatier, Lough Owel Organic Farm, Man of Aran Fudge, Martin Sawiki Breads, Mella’s Fudge, Mic's Chilli, Olivia’s Chocolates, On The Pigs Back, Organic Herb Co., Pollocks Pickles, Poulet Bonne Femme, Richard Hogan Fruit and Veg, Rogan’s Smokehouse, Scion Spirits, Street Eats, Tasty Treats, Tiernan Family Farm, Tutti Fruity Juice Bar, Woodcock Smokery.
Workshops
Making your own preserves at home
...with Janet Drew 12.00pm – 12.45pm
An award-winning producer of chutneys and preserves, The Bridgestone Guide's John McKenna describes Janet’s sweet pepper relish as ''probably the most copied artisan food product ever produced in Ireland'', while her beetroot blush won the prestigious Irish Food Writers' Guild award in 2011. Janet will demonstrate the art of preserving bountiful seasonal produce with some simple recipes for making chutneys, salad dressings and maybe even some home-made lemonade!
Cooking with Kids
...with Pauric White 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Our next door neighbour Pauric White of The award winning Forge Restaurant has been running a programme in local schools, showing children how to grow their own vegetables and herbs and how to cook healthy, interesting meals. He also writes a related column for the Meath Chronicle. Pauric will run a fun interactive workshop with Children.
Farm to Fork
...cooking with Imen McDonnell 1.30pm – 2.15pm
Imen writes one of the most popular Irish food blogs – ‘modern farmette’. She also has a weekly column “Tales of A Modern Farmette” in Irish Country Living each Thursday. Imen will demonstrate some of her favourite recipes using indigenous Irish ingredients, including ingredients from her own farm.
Hedgerow Foods
...with Enda McEvoy 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Enda McEvoy (Bridgestone Chef of the Year, 2011) runs the Kitchen in the acclaimed Aniar restaurant in Galway. He explains the philosophy of Aniar, “The food is based on our terroir, the ensemble of natural influences that give a food a sense of place. ....we are surrounded by lush ancient woodland, bountiful shorelines, thriving farmlands all heaving with some of the best ingredients in Europe but unique to us’’. Enda will take a group on a walk around our local hedgerows to point out the edible treasures which are growing wild.
Smoked Irish wild fish
...with Sally Barnes 3.00pm – 3.45pm
Sally Barnes of Woodcock Smokery has been one of the leading Irish food producers since she began smoking fish in Castletownsend in the early eighties. She is a strong exponent of sustainable fishing has worked hard in her local fishing community as well as nationally and internationally to promote community based sustainable fishing practices. Sally will talk about and taste a wide variety of Irish wild fish.
Irish Raw Milk Cheese
4.30pm – 5.15pm
A tasting and discussion of some of the best cheeses in Ireland. Hosted by Kevin Sheridan along with several producers of raw milk farm cheeses, the stories of the individual cheeses, as well as their individual characteristics will be explored. These are the cheeses that best represent the Irish landscape and farming traditions.
Slow Food Youth Area
This year we have teamed up with Ireland’s Slow Food Youth movement to provide an area dedicated to food education and fun. There will be lots going on in this zone including cookery workshops, food games, schools market and GIY for kids.
Entertainment
Free Face painting, bouncing slide and lots of entertainment to keep the children entertained in between all the yummy food. Our local GAA club will be running some traditional fair games such as horse shoe throwing. There will be live music from ‘Early house Jazz’ to provide a backdrop for the day.
A little about our warehouse at Virginia Road Station...
The event will be held on the grounds of Sheridans Cheesemongers’ warehouse and offices in the townland of Pottlereagh on the Meath Cavan border. The site was formerly the Virginia road railway station. Sheridans received the Ellison award from An Taisce for their work in renovating and conserving the old railway store. This large stone building now houses a retail shop displaying Sheridan’s famous selection of quality cheeses, foods and wines. The buildings are set in the beautiful rolling hills of the Meath Countryside.
How to Find Us - Google map:
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Directions
Coming from M50 / Dublin:
Take the N3 through Navan and Kells,
pass through Carnaross village take the
next left (after about 5 minutes), take
a right at the cross roads and we
are on the right.
Coming from Cavan / Virginia:
Take the N3 through Virginia after about 8 minutes take the right at Whitegate Cross, signed Edenburt. Take a right at the cross roads and we are on the right.
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