The Ballybunion Bean Festival promises to be one of the highlights of summer 2025. Don’t miss the Bean Bake Off on the beach and explore the potential of beans as the most fun and climate friendly food for the future.
The community will spend months nurturing these precious beans. Come join this truly slow food feast.
This brand new festival will be gas craic, full of beans and other corny puns.
Come join us for a day filled with educational chat, and inspiring speakers all focused on promoting sustainability in North Kerry. Learn about environmental conservation, renewable energy, and community initiatives aimed at creating a more eco-friendly future for our region. There will be many exhibitors there to give lots of inspiration and help.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and take part in the movement towards a greener, more sustainable world. See you there!
Schedule for the day:
10.30-11.00 am: Welcome
11.00-11.45 am: Energy & Sustainability – Building a sustainable energy community as well as being warm and saving money
12.00-12.45 pm: Wild & Wonderful – What’s wild and wonderful in our biosphere? Exploring our local biodiversity and the challenges they face
12.45-1.30 pm: Lunch Break
1.30-2.15 pm: Adapting To Climate Challenges – First responses and community co-ordinating
2.30-3.15 pm: Food Health & WellBeing – Are you what you eat? Find out through this discussion with local growers and food producers
3.30-4.15 pm: Drawing Into Life – Being creative and imagining the future we want to be
We had another fantastic Friday on the Farm this week.
Lots of delicious food harvested at @thebarnaway and prepared by Stephanie from Rituals of Plate, who also preserved a lot of food for our upcoming Winter events.
We had a film screening of the films created so far in the project (coming soon!) with our embedded artist Lisa Fingleton.
We learned about seed saving and saving seeds from tomatoes, beans, celery and flowers. Rena Blake talked us through preparing a garden for Winter.
We also went for a walk in the woods and into the meadows to see the spectacular Devil’s Bit Scabious which was buzzing with bees, hover flies and butterflies
We were delighted to have Clare Watson with us for the day.
