The Ballybunion Bean Festival promises to be one of the highlights of summer 2025. This brand new, unique festival focuses on the potential of beans as the most fun and climate friendly food for the future.
The Ballybunion Bean Festival was born out of Brilliant Ballybunion, a Creative Climate Action Initiative, supported by Creative Ireland. While growing food, nurturing nature, and creating art together, the Brilliant Ballybunion team began to imagine a new future for local food production and community resilience in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises.
The future is beans! Beans are an amazing source of protein, perfect for a plant based or a climatarian diet. Beans fix nitrogen in the soil and help local ecosystems to thrive. Beans also provide an opportunity for a new model of food production – from home and community gardens to small and big farmers alike. Growing beans can happen at any scale.
The Ballybunion Bean Festival is a blueprint for what is possible – by bringing together local artists, collaborators, chefs, and businesses, it demonstrates how community action can be intentional, meaningful, and fun!!
For the last few months, the community has been growing beans for a feast, which will be followed by a concert with Sailhym. The Festival will take place within the beautiful woodlands, gardens and organic meadows of The Barna Way.
Come join this truly slow food feast. This brand new festival will be gas craic, full of beans and other corny puns.
