Another brilliant day filming for the Homegrown series for RTE in Ballybunion at The Barna Way, the Beach Hive and at the sea with ecologist and B Team member Dr Joanne O’Brien.
Thanks to Mark, Raj, Tony and Colm from RTE for being so well organised and interested in all the great things happening in Ballybunion in terms of creativity, food production and biodiversity. Great to have Ballybunion Tidy Towns work featured too.
Grainne Toomey gave an overview of the Creative Climate Action Fund and the project. Dr Joanne O Brien talked about the special area of conservation here for birds and dolphins and the importance of protecting water quality.
Rena Blake talked about the importance of growing local food and how the project is showing people how to grow their own food. Embedded artist Lisa Fingleton talked about the power of creative responses to climate change and biodiversity loss and how we need to imagine the future we want to B. Danny Houlihan played a lament for the elm trees on the bagpipes and we spent some time drawing the beautiful artichokes inspired by our Rituals of Plate contemplate workshop where we learned to meditate, draw and eat eat food slowly in order to really appreciate it. Stephanie cooked a delicious vegan feast all picked from the garden.
Thanks to our collaborators Antoinette, Danny, George and Mona for taking part in all the filming
