The NeighbourFood Podcast

Yasmin Hyde is the founder of Ballymaloe Foods, an internationally known and much loved Irish family food company, and daughter of Irish food hero Myrtle Allen. In this fascinating conversation, she …

Avril Allshire-Howe, along with her husband Willie and their two sons, William and Maurice, farms a herd of 100 crossbred pigs in Caherbeg, County Cork. It all started when Avril from West Cork and W…

This week we are chatting to Kate Burns, founder, and CEO of Islander Rathlin Kelp. They are based on Rathlin Island, a small boot-shaped island between Ireland and Scotland, at the intersection of w…

Welcome to the NeighbourFood podcast. Our guests this week are father and son duo Jerry and Conor O'Riordan, who along with their brother Diarmuid have formed a cooperative of Dexter Cattle farmers i…

This week, we decided to revisit a classic episode from the NeighbourFood podcast archives. As you may have heard, the World Potato Congress that was recently hosted in Dublin, we felt this was a top…

Honeybees are an integral part of our natural world. They pollinate the majority of our crops and trees, giving us the food we eat and the air we breathe. Not only important for our ecosystem, but al…

Black pudding, blood sausage, and for Irish and UK listeners this food will need no introduction. Loved on breakfast plates across the country, did you know that Black Pudding tells the story of mode…

We are chatting to community hero Sam Bishop this week. As well as many other strings to his bow, Sam is the founder of Street Feast; Ireland’s national day of community lunches which this year takes…

Snail farming is a pretty unusual one, at least for Ireland. But not for Carlow based snail farmer Eva Milka who started her business Gaelic Escargot (@gaelic_escargot) back in 2013 after a visit to …

This week we are chatting to Irish food champion Mark Murphy, a Carlow man based in Dingle, Co. Kerry who filled us in on all things happening on the Peninsula. No stranger to our ears, you will Mark…

Don’t you love a good crunchy apple? The sweetness of it never lets you down. Did you know that Ireland’s commercial apple growing scene isn’t really developed…. Or we should say, it was at one point…

Following the chocolate fest of Easter, we got a craving for some goodness, so we reached out to organic fitness expert Colman Power. Colman is a fitness trainer as well as an organic grower, and he’…

Did you know that over 650 million chocolate Easter eggs are sold in Ireland each year to the tune of over €44million! That’s a lot of sugary goodness, but why chocolate and why eggs after our tradit…

The topic of our discussion today is Money for Jam and the importance of keeping your food business sustainable, profitable and competitive. Despite the fact that this discussion is focused on food b…

Today we are chatting to Donal O’ Leary, environmental consultant and composting king!. This is a super informative fun episode that smashes all myths and tricks about home composting! Donal is on a …

Have you heard that European Farmers need to start growing wheat? If you hadn’t, following the news of the war in Ukraine; food policy makers across the EU started to talk about shortages of certain …

Continuing on our theme of setting up a market garden, we find out what it takes from Erik Johnnason, who along with his wife Katrina took a blind leap of faith and set one up as the pandemic took ho…

One thing we are always asked is to get stuck into some growing info. So for this week and next, we are going to look into the nitty-gritty of setting up a market garden. If you’ve ever thought this …

This week’s guest is a freelance food writer, photographer, and creator and has written extensively for publications such as The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, Easy Food Magazine, Image Inter…

Spring is in the air, and with the flowers blooming it’s hard not to smile when you see these joyous bursts of colour. Not only do flowers brighten your day, but they are also super romantic and expr…