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
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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