Fresh season Lamb for sale

Downings Lamb:

We are a family farm that have been farming and selling lamb direct to customers for over 10 years, by cutting the middle man out we can sell prime quality lamb at great value for money (much cheaper than butchers and supermarkets). We produce fully traceable grass fed lamb of top quality. We have a very loyal costumer base built through the years.

Prices: We sell a full lamb box for 150 euro and 1/2 lamb box for 78 euro.

For ordering or for more information you can check Facebook page 'Downings Lamb' or ring Marc at 0863172514

Thank you,

Marc

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Downings-Lamb/191055347610690?fref=ts

Newbridge Food Co-op AGM

Hi all, 

We will be holding our AGM on Wednesday 28th November, at 8pm to review the year, take feedback, brainstorm ideas, make changes etc.

So if you have anything to say, suggestions to make, want to get more involved please come along at 8pm on Wednesday 28th November 2012 at the Lifeflow Centre, 4 Moorefield Rd, Newbridge.

This will also be our normal 'orders' night where you can place your Xmas order which will be ready for 'shop' night on Wednesday 12th December 2012. This will be the last order of 2012.

Thanks,

the NOOOOBY gang

http://www.lifeflowcentre.com/

Proposed...Newbridge Food Co-op's Christmas Fair

Hi all,

We haven't got it together to have a Christmas Fair like we did last year, but we thought we might have a smaller modified affair on one of our shop nights, so....

We are proposing to have the Newbridge Food Co-op's Christmas Fair on Wed 12th December 2012 in the Lifeflow Centre, Newbridge (pending permission from the owners) time tbc, to link in with 'shop' night.

Are there any crafters/makers/stallholders from last year that would be interested in a more informal fair this year? It would be small scale, maybe between the kitchen and the room beside it in the Lifeflow, so you'd have to set up on a small table, and be prepared for smaller space etc. This is a preliminary enquiry/info gathering email, if people are interested in doing it, it will go ahead, if there aren't it won't!!! If you know if anyone who might be interested in having a tiny stall, then pass on our email.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

the NOOOOBY gang

The Fruit Press in action again...Grape Pressing

Grape Pressing!

During the mid-term I put the community fruit press into action over in my dad's place in Maynooth, and with the help of my 3 & 6 year old cousins we sorted and de-stalked hundreds of grapes and put them through the press!

We are hoping to make some delicious red wine from the grape juice, it's our first experiment with actual grape-wine making, my apple wine, made from apples from our very first inaugural fruit pressing is now the most delicious apple wine you have ever tasted, so this is wine making experiment no. 2!

NOVEMBER 2012 NOOOOBY SHOP NIGHT

Shop' night will take place next Wednesday 14th November 2012, at 8pm in The Lifeflow Centre, 4 Moorefield Rd, Newbridge. Those who placed orders should come down to pick up their goods and there will be a shop with dry goods for sale also.

Newbridge OOOOBY, standing for ‘Out of Our Own Back Yard’ the OOOOBY group is based on the Food Co-op ideals of sourcing local producers and suppliers of local, tasty, affordable and if possible, organic food.

We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month, in The Lifeflow Centre, on Moorefield Road, Newbridge at 8pm. The 4th Wednesday is for placing your order and the 2nd Wednesday  is for collection of goods. We also tend to have a ‘shop’ there on the night with goods for sale that aren’t on the order form.

If you’re interested in getting involved in the group, and buying your food locally, you can contact us via email at newbridgeooooby@gmail.com or phone our chairman Mairtín Lane on 087/4169582

Other tit bits:

*Please remember that to ensure the continuation of the food co-op we need people to pay for goods in advance. Please fill in the goods you want, save the file with your name in the title and email it back to us here at this email address, or call down in person with your order on 4th Wednesday of the month. Online orders are also acceptable, you can set up a standing order to our credit union account.

*We always have a stash of extra bits to sell on the 'pick up' night, so it's worthwhile bringing some extra change in your pocket when you come down to pick up your order!

*Can people bring bags with them to the ordering night - plastic/paper/reusable/fabric etc. and then we'll have a stash for making up the orders on the collection night

Local Producer Profile - Camphill @ Grangebeg

In case you were wondering where our beautiful organic eggs at NOOOOBY were coming from, here's where! 

In season we have also been getting some of our organic vegetables from Grangebeg for our totally organic vegetable boxes. In early summer we had the largest early potatoes I have ever seen!

Check out Grangebeg's farm here: http://www.camphill.ie/grangebeg-Farming-s-91.html

Camphill Community Grangebeg is located in County Kildare on the border with County Wicklow. They are a small farm based community responsible for the care and management of our 46 acres of land, on which we run a small herd of cattle, sheep and a few hundrend chickens. They are organically certified and their vegetable garden provides enough food to sustain them through most of the year with a surplus to sell to local communities and fellow organic growers.

Producer Profile: Moyleabbey Organic Farm

Moyle Abbey are one of our two organic vegetable suppliers for our organic vegetable box scheme which we run as part of our NOOOOBY group. beautiful veg, grown in our home county, you can't get much more l0cal than that. And with the hungry gap coming to an end, the veg boxes should be really tasty over the next few months.

http://www.moyleabbey.ie/

We are a family run organic vegetable and fruit farm managed by Liam Ryan and Yuki Kobayashi. We started converting the 13.5 acre farm to certified organic production in August 2003 and achieved full organic status in August 2006.

The land is based in the townsland of Moyleabbey, nearby to the historic Quaker village of Ballitore in County Kildare. It lies halfway between Naas and Carlow just off the N9. It is ideal land for organic vegetable production, it has a gentle slope and is naturally very fertile having been in grassland for over 15 years. The soil is a deep sandy loam, which is good to work in many different weather conditions. It is very well suited to a wide range of vegetable crops as well as such fruits as strawberries, which we have planted this year and apple trees, which we are planted this winter.