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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...

Thanks to Anne Maher and all the team at The Urban Co-Op in Limerick city for a fantastic visit. We just stopped off for delicious homemade scones (local flour, butter and jam) with organic teas and coffees. So inspiring to hear about the journey of the co-op and...

Thanks to the brilliant Ian McGregor for the wonderful visit to Gortbrack Farm. Great to see how fields can be transformed into multiple habitats with forests, ponds, bog and vegetable gardens. Ian showed us how much water is stored in sphagnum moss and we even got to...

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...

TEANGA, TIMPEALLACHT AGUS TALAMH Thank you to everyone who came to our Sing For Your Supper event as part of Ballybunion Arts Festival. We had such a wonderful evening of song and culture in Gaeilge (Irish), English, Polish and Yкраїнська (Ukrainian) in the style of...

Another great Friday on the Farm. Thanks to Steph from Rituals of Plate for a wonderful ContemPLATE workshop. We started with a grounding and mindful walk to the polytunnel where we connected to the plants, fruit and veg through drawing. A reminder to ‘walk...

We had another brilliant day at Friday On The Farm at The Barna Way. Fantastic to see the meadows in full bloom with ragged robin, plantain, buttercup and lots of cuckoo spit (the home of tiny green frog hoppers).. the magical scent of honeysuckle and lots of bird...

As part of Brillliant Ballybunion we are running a Wild About Life programme with ecologist Dr Joanne O Brien. Earlier this summer we had planned to go Dolphin watching but as the weather forecast threatened wind, we decided to reschedule that event and hold a...

What a brilliant day at Ballymaloe Food Festival!! Lots of great conversations about food and how to create healthy, inclusive and resilient soil and food systems in the context of biodiversity loss and climate change. Well done to our community collaborators...

What a brilliant day on our third Friday on Farm with our amazing project collaborators. We started with delicious scones made by Rena followed by meditation and reflection in the forest. Then we made mini meadows from recycled paper, soil and organic meadow seed....

Magic in nature! Thank you to everyone who came for the Dawn Chorus with Barry O Donoghue and Rena Blake at The Barna Way… thanks to all the birds who performed in the early morning symphony and to Jennie Moran of High Luncheonette for her delicious porridge We have...

“What we sow here now today will bloom tomorrow…” The beautiful voice and lyrics of singer songwriter Katie O'Connor opened the MOYA Festival on the Earthlings stage in the woodland at The Barna Way. This reminds us of the importance of setting our intentions and...

A Brilliant day today at The Barna Way creating land art/ a willow dome/bird hide with magical portholes! Lots of great teamwork and fun using all natural materials including willow and handmade flax rope…. A great team of willow warblers! Lots of delicious local...

We had a brilliant day today at our first Wild About Life event with ecologist and team member Dr Joanne O Brien. We spent World Water Day - 22.03.24, literally immersed in nature and water, learning how to analyse river water quality. We were all amazed at the number...

We were delighted to welcome our new Brilliant Ballybunion Community Collaborators to our first event at The Barna Way. It was great to get the opportunity to finally meet each other after all the planning and preparation. What a fantastic group with such a range of...

We had our first Friday on the Farm. We all met at 11am, drew portraits of each other using materials that Lisa offered, charcoal, pastels, pencils, crayons. We then did some drawing in nature, really getting settled in The Barna Way. We proudly held an exhibition on...