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.

NOOOOBY Orders Night-WED 27TH JUNE

Dear NOOOBYers,

A few changes are being instigated this month, as we are finding that by allowing late orders we haven't enough time to get the orders together fully and for them to be complete. We are also running into cash flow problems with goods not being paid for in advance. So in lieu of all that the changes are as follows.

ALL orders must be in by Wed 27th June, that's including people who come down in person to pay by cash at the NOOOOBY meeting (8pm, The Lifeflow Centre, Newbridge) AND people who order and pay online via the credit union account (info on how to set this up, attached). This means we then have 2 weeks to get the order together and especially make sure we can get all the local food orders in properly, as these take time between chatting with producers, arranging pick up/drop off etc. for pick up on the 2nd WEDNESDAY in JULY - that's goods pick up/shop night - WED 11TH JULY.

There were no veg boxes this month as the growers are having the hungry gap period extended due to bad weather, no one had veg ready for harvest yet, but they all say they should be good to go next month, so the veg boxes will be back into full swing for July's order(that's this one!).

Again if anyone has some free time we always appreciate some help on shop night - the next one being WEDNESDAY 11th July - we are all volunteers doing this for the love of food!

To conclude - NO orders will be accepted after WED 27th JUNE. new rule folks!

Happy rain!

the NOOOOBY gang

Newbridge OOOOBY - Local Food Co-op - Out Of Our Own Back (OOOOBY)

Email: newbridgeooooby@gmail.com
Facebook Page: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/189080547808536/

Blog: http://nooooby.blogspot.com/

NOOOOBY 'shop' night

Shop' night will take place this Wednesday 13th June, at 8pm in The Lifeflow Centre, 4 Moorefield Rd, Newbridge. Those who placed orders should come down to pick up their goods they ordered, 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

NOOOOBY order night WED 23RD MAY 2012

Hi all,

May NOOOOBY order due in this Wednesday, in person, in the Lifeflow Centre, Moorefield Rd, Newbridge. From 8pm, as always we'll have the shop there as well, so if you want to call down and see what we have in stock do come on down.,

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 Wednesday.

Online orders are also acceptable, you can set up a standing order to our credit union account, online orders are due in by Wed 6th June.

Shop night is on Wed 13th June. Same place, same bat channel!

Hope to see you there!

the NOOOOBy gang

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Newbridge OOOOBY - Local Food Co-op - Out Of Our Own Back (OOOOBY)

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/189080547808536/

Blog: http://nooooby.blogspot.com 

Sister OOOOBY group - Carraig Dulra

Visit our sister OOOOBY group

Take a visit to our sister OOOOBY group in Glenealy, Wicklow and see what local food magic they get up too!! Met with and had a great and very useful chat with Mike Cahn of Wicklow OOOOBY at the Community Supported Agriculture Conference at the weekend in Cloughjordan Eco-Village(more about that to follow!!), got some useful, practical tips, but mainly great to meet people doing similar things just across the hills. We also made a promise to try and stay better linked, share ideas and make sure we're not re-creating the wheel in our attmepts to keep our local oooby going.

Check out: http://www.ooooby.ie/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ooooby-Out-Of-Our-Own-Back-Yard-Glenealy/133373533398528

and

http://www.bettertogether.ie/content/building-community-health-through-local-food

New Apple Press for NOOOBY - Inaugural journey

Community Fruit Press

Inaugural apple pressing session with food co-op's new fruit press, delicious juice! Mairtin our chairman managed to get a LA21 grant for the press and for a grain mill. So, if anyone has apples or grapes or any other fruits for pressing, the fruit press is there for use by the community.

Local Producer Profile: Kilbeggan Organic Oats

NOOOOBY have only recently discovered Kilbeggan Organic Porridge Oats in the last few months, and since then we haven't looked back. Delicious creamy oatflakes, have made me fall in love with porridge on a winters morning all over again!

About:

Kilbeggan Organic Foods was established in January 2011. This is a family business run by the Tom Lalor and his family to produce and market Organic food products based on the organic oat crop grown on the family farm, Ballard Organic Farm in Westmeath.

The Products:
Porridge oats comes in two distinct types, porridge oatlets also called fine or creamy porridge and jumbo oats. Both products are exactly the same as they both come from the oat grain, but the jumbo is the whole oat and the oatlet is the jumbo oat cut up into three or four pieces.

Both types of oats come in four different sizes; 500gr, 1kg, 3kg and 25kg.

If you visit Ballard Organic Farm web site on www.ballardorganicfarm.ie you will see how crop is grown and the care that is given to creating a soil that is full of the life that nature intended. 

Health Benefits:
Eat more oats is a web site which explains the health benefits of eating oats. You may also down load a PDF which gives a copy of a current certificate of analysis of Kilbeggan Organic Porridge. It is interesting to compare the results with other brands and especially the very high level of soluble fibre contained in Kilbeggan Organic Porridge.

Check them out on: http://www.kilbegganorganicfoods.com
Kilbeggan Organic Foods, Ballard Farm, Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath, Ireland. TEL: 087 2557679

NOOOOBY Venue - The Lifeflow Centre

NOOOOBY Venue - The Lifeflow Centre

Newbridge OOOOBY is lucky to be hosted by the beautiful Lifeflow Centre, right in the iddle of Newbridge Town. The Lifeflow Centre is passionate about empowering individuals to embrace true health of body, mind & heart using natural medicines that are ancient & cutting edge, mixing Eastern & Western natural medicine with the best that modern technology has to offer. Lifeflow Centre offers a variety of therapies, from homeopathy to TCM Acupuncture and Time Wave.

Check them out on:

http://www.lifeflowcentre.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Lifeflow-Centre

The Lifeflow Centre, Baywood Villa, Moorefield Road, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Enquiries +353 (0)86 1034808 Bookings +353 (0)45 433302 health@lifeflowcentre.com www.lifeflowcentre.com

NOOOOBY February Orders Due - Saturday 5th February

*******NEW SET UP - CHANGE IN ORDER AND PICK UP NIGHTS**********

Orders are due in by Saturday 4th February. Pick up goods on Wednesday 8th February at The Lifeflow Centre, from 8pm.

NEW orders night - 4th Wednesday of every month
On this night, you are welcome to come to the Lifeflow Centre and place and pay for your order for the month. There will also be a small shop with goods we have in stock for sale. If you can't make this night. You can return your order form via email, it is in word and excel format (which automatically adds up your total). please save your name into the file when making your order, and include it at the top of the order sheet, including your total.

NEW goods pick up night - 2nd Wednesday of every month
On this night, the goods you have ordered including local fresh food, e.g. veg box, eggs and cheese will be available for pick up. You can also pay on this night if you sent your form via email, cash only.

Dates for Feb order:
NEW Order Night: Wednesday 25th January
NEW goods pick up night: Wednesday 8th February

Welcome to Newbridge OOOOBY, Newbridge's Local Food co-op. 

Founded in November 2010. Newbridge OOOOBY is a local Food co-op, 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. NOOOOBY also encourages members to bring in their own produce, and most of our goods are now coming from members of the co-op. NOOOOBY is a not for profit, voluntary group, run by a group of interested locals, who feel strongly about where their food comes from.

At the moment, we’re sourcing our whole food locally, prioritising Irish and organic produce, so we’ve been enjoying tasty delights such as coffee roasted in Cork, and homemade Irish chocolate. We also get local Kildare honey, Kildare raised organic chickens, and Kildare apple juice and organic cheese from Carlow, all supplied by members. Since June 2011, we have been trialling a local organic vegetable box scheme, and feedback has been glowingly positive!

 If you’re interested in getting involved in the NOOOOBY 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.

 We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month, in The Lifeflow Centre, on Moorefield Road, Newbridge at 8pm. The first meeting is for placing your order and the second meeting is for collection of goods. We also tend to have a ‘shop’ there on the night with goods for sale that isn’t on the order form, so you’re welcome to call in and say hello and see how things work.