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Perched on the picturesque Carrig Rua Hill in North Wexford behind his parents' house, Anthony’s tiny garden is now home to over 500 varieties of organic heritage seeds and plants. What began in 2016 with a polytunnel from Anthony's friends at Highbank Orchards in Kilkenny, a 'handful' of organic seeds from Brown Envelope Seeds in West Cork and Irish Seed Savers in Clare, a lively compost heap, some feathered friends, and a commitment to working with nature, Anthony’s edible garden has blossomed into a vibrant tapestry of curiosity, biodiversity and flavour full of hope and possibilities.
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Busy-bee chef ANTHONY O’TOOLE explains how he’s getting together with the legendary SALLY BARNES to host a Producer x Chef event series in West Cork over the next few months – with more events to be announced for 2025...
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This month Failte Ireland Food Champion Anthony O'Toole welcomes the recently released Fáilte Ireland Food and Drink Strategy for 2018-2023.
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Last June Anthony O'Toole was one of a group appointed as the new Fáilte Ireland Food Champions. So, one year later, what have they been up to?
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In the latest of his monthly columns, Failte Ireland Food Champion Anthony O'Toole welcomes the new food festival season
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April is one of my favourite months of the year. Not just because it is my birth month, but because the days are getting longer, the spring air is warming up, and signs of new life are appearing again. In the lush green fields, we see and hear newborn animals out with their mummies, farmers are tending the land, ploughing fields and sowing seeds for this year’s harvest.
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It’s February already. We’re six weeks into 2017 and already we’ve seen some promising developments around Ireland in terms of food and tourism with the announcement of a new distillery in Donegal and reports of fantastic growth within many Irish food supporting businesses in the year gone by.
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Failte Ireland Food Champion Anthony O'Toole tells us about a memorable benchmarking trip to Denmark, that will help to “put our little green land on the world map for food and tourism”
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Empowering the Youth and Cross Collaboration will grow Irish Food and Tourism, says our busy Failte Ireland Food Champion, Anthony O'Toole. There is such an abundance of local food tourism initiatives happening on our small green island that I do not know where to start telling you all about it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been ‘at’ some exceptional festivals and events in Ireland and abroad.
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In the first of a new monthly column, Failte Ireland Food Champion Anthony O'Toole explains what it’s all about - and says, "We can and we will put our little green land on the world map for food and tourism."
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