Beal Organic Cheese

Beale Lodge Organic Farm, Asdee, Listowel, Co Kerry.

Kate Carmody is a sixth generation chemist and her specialist area is Bio-Chemistry, but Cheesemaking is her true love and Beal Organic Cheese came about as a result of marrying an Irish dairy farmer and settling in the north Kerry farmhouse. She began making cheese in 1987 and in 1997 the farm underwent organic conversion, with full status achieved in 2000. Beale Lodge Organic Farm is also GM free and Kate has been instrumental in the anti GM movement in Ireland and is a full time pro-active campaigner for the organic movement. Raw milk Beal Organic Cheese is a wonderful, creamy, cheddar style crumbly textured cheese, which packs a piquant, fiery explosion of taste that sets it totally apart Kate Carmody is a living legend and all her cheeses are equally celebrated.

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Burren Smokehouse and Visitor Centre (The)

Kincora Road, Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare.

Just off the main square in historic Lisdoonvarna, this highly acclaimed, award winning traditional smokehouse owned by Peter and Birgitta Curtin produces superb smoked salmon and locally caught mackerel, and also smokes cheeses from some of Clare’s renowned cheese makers. The Burren smokehouse is also home to a delightful Gourmet Food Shop stoked with superb Irish artisan produce, a charming Craft Shop and a very informative Visitor Centre, where you can see a traditional smoker and view their audio-visual presentation.

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Connemara Smokehouse and Visitor Centre

Bunowen Pier, Aillebrack, Ballyconneely, Clifden, Co Galway.

Situated on the water's edge at Bunowen Pier, in the heart of Connemara and between Roundstone and Clifden, the Smokehouse has an enviable position. It’s the longest established smokehouse in the area and one of the few remaining specialising in locally caught wild smoked and organic salmon, they also specialise in Irish smoked tuna and gravadlax. Take one of Graham Robert's memorising tours and purchase a great array of traditionally hand-prepared seafood products.

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Coolanowle Country House & Organic Farm

Coolanowle, Ballickmoyler, Carlow.

Coolanowle Country House and Organic Farm is a haven of tranquility with 3 acres of beautiful beech wood gardens and 18th century flax ponds, not to mention our working Organic Farm. James and Bernadine Mulhall have created a wonderful country retreat in James' beautiful family home on the Carlow Laois border. Beauty and Body Treatments also available for a pampering break away from it all.

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Moon Shine Organic Dairy Farm

Moonshine Dairy Farm, Lough Ennell, Ladestown, Mullingar, Co Westmeath.

Gerry and Mary Kelly at Moon Shine Organic Dairy Farm are passionate producers with a real connection to the food they grow, source, make and sell. Part of the philosophy is a ‘back to basics’ concept so that uniquely, products are created with the greatest of care on favourable days in the moon’s cycle. They produce a wonderful range of cow’s milk cheeses, probiotic yoghurts, yoghurt drinks and they have just launched their new range of organic cheddar and their long awaited bottled milk!

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Morrin O'Rourke Farm Foods

Belgard, Kilcock, Co Kildare

Co Kildare’s rolling countryside is home to the Morrin O’Rourke family’s 23-acre organic farm. Here they produce their organic beef and lamb that goes into their high quality organic pies. Their herds are reared according to the ethos that organic farming is a way of life, not just a means to an end, and in harmony with nature and seasons for a better quality of life. A commitment to the Slow Food way of eating and living is also reflected here and care and devotion to the end product always shines through in taste and texture, and we know you’ll agree when you eat one of these pies.

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Mossfield Organic Farm

Clareen, Birr, Co Offaly.

It’s not easy to produce an award-winning cheese. But to produce one within a few short years of cheese making would seem to be an impossible task. Not so for Ralph Haslam, owner of Mossfield Organic Cheeses.

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Noodle House Organic Pasta

Rathmagurry, Curry, Co Sligo.

Ingrid Basler and her husband hailed from the Black Forest, a pasta-eating area of Germany and with a strong belief in organic food, it seemed like a natural choice when they looked to diversifying their small farm in Curry, Co Sligo. For 10 years now they have bee producing their amazing varieties of organic pasta.

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Old Millbank Smokehouse

Willow Pond, Buttevant, Co Cork.

Geraldine Bass established old Millbank Smokehouse in l995 when she began to supply her superb smoked salmon to local restaurants and shops. No artificial ingredients are used, giving the customer nothing less than the purest, most natural smoked salmon.

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Orchard Acre Farm

36 Moynaghan North Road, Lisnarick, Irvinestown, Co Fermanagh, BT94 1LQ.

Right at the very heart of Orchard Acre Farm's success and certainly central to its charm is Teresa O'Hare. It is she, together with husband Hugh who is the driving energy of an operation so diverse in its offering that is hard to confine its labeling to any one category. It is a cookery and training centre, a gardening and vegetable hive, a wedding, conference or party venue, a voluntary work opportunity and most of all a sanctuary. Orchard Acre is a world of possibilities with one warm and very dynamic woman at its heart.

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