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The Four Rivers Convivium has members from Tipperary, Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford, and events are organised across the region. Waterford also hosted Terra Madre Ireland in 2008 and the Harvest Festival in 2009 (see You Tube video below).
We are always interested in any new ideas that celebrate our local, good, clean and fair food, shared in convivial circumstances. We ask all our members and friends of Slow Food International to support where possible sustainable local producers and local Farmers and Country markets.
Contacts
Convivium Leader: Donal Lehane - 087-6780014;
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Membership officer: Paul Deegan, 087-0668922,
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Public Relations officer: Eugene McSweeney,
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Treasurer: Judith Bray, 087-6977029,
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Slow Food - Four Rivers Convivium - South East Ireland 2011
Future events
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Postponed until September - date to be confirmed
Summer Cookery School with Nevin Maguire in WIT
Five days of intensive instruction and practice in state of the art facilities.
Accomodation can be organised as part of the package.
Special deal for Slow Food Members
Individual days may be booked depending on availability close to the event.
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
Contact:
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or if necessary 087-6780014
June: Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th
Wexford Strawberry Festival – Enniscorthy
All Ireland farmers market, music, street theatre, family fun, lots of strawberries & cream. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.wexfordstawberryfestival.com
September Saturday 3rd to Sunday 11th
Waterford Harvest Festival see: www.waterfordharvestfestival.ie
Major music and food event on Saturday evening the 3rd of Sept.
Food seminars during the week
Daily demonstrations by experts from the University of Gastronomic Sciences based in Piedmonte, in the demonstation lecture theatre in the Culinary College, Waterford Institute of Technology.
All Ireland Slow Food Market on the one mile quay on Sunday the 11th.
Full progamme of events involving hotels, restuarants, chefs, producers and all interested in good clean fair food.
October Friday 28th to Monday 31st
Savour Kilkenny – one of the Major Food Festivals of the South east
Repeat of last years very successful Food Camp
Keep in touch for future developments
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Past events:
May 20th, 21st & 22nd
Wexford Food Festival
Cookery demos, hog roast, learn to cook in a Fullacht Fiadh on Sunday in the Heritage Park - A wonderful celebration of local food. Enquiries: http://www.wexfordfoodfestival.ie/
Thursday April 14th to Sunday April 17th
Waterford Festival of Food
Location: Dungarvan
Featuring a BBQ by the sea with a craft beer garden on Saturday, cake decorating classes at Ormonde’s Café , a Community Walk with Dungarvan Hill Walking Club, a Body|Mind|Spirit display in Walton Park, new ‘Bus Bia’ tour routes and a tour of the Gardens of the Great Houses.
Visit: www.waterfordfestivaloffood.ie for all the details.
International Grandmothers' Day in the Dunhill Ecopark
All Grandmothers and their juvenile grandchildren are invited to the Ecopark in Dunhill on Saturday next the 16th of April at 10:30 a.m.
Arron Jay will photograph Grandmothers passing on their wisdom to their grandchildern e.g. How to sow seeds, set cabbage and plant a young apple tree.
This photo opportunity is Ireland's contribution to International Grandmother's Day. The best photos will go to the Slow Food International website, local & national press. We hope to e-mail participants copies of photos for family enjoyment.
This is a local Slow Food 'free-of-charge' event. All grandmothers and their primary school grandchildren are welcome. Please note the time is 10:30 a.m. sharp. www.slowfoodireland.com
Saturday the 16th April
Slow Food Tour from six city centre hotels located the one-mile Quay in Waterford City
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Time: 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Meet local artisan producers in their place of work. Sample and taste local products. Enjoy demonstrations and the stories behind their products and the names.
The Bus will return patrons to the city city centre or to the ‘Park & Ride’ facility at the Waterford Crystal Leisure facility on the Cork road after the event.
Departing times:
Marina Hotel: 2 p.m.
Tower Hotel: 2.10 p.m.
Granville Hotel: 2.15 p.m.
Dooleys Hotel: 2.20 p.m.
Traceys Hotel: 2.25 p.m.
Fitzwilton: 2.30 p.m.
Park & ride from Waterford Crystal leisure centre on the Cork road: 2.45 p.m
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
Price: The visits are free of charge but the bus ticket is €10 per seat.
Contact:
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March 12th to 19th
GIY week – See: www.giyireland.com – many of our slow food members are involved
On Facebook, GIY plans to get over 100,000 people to take a pledge to grow something they can eat (www.facebook.com/giyireland). Included are visits to some of Ireland’s most inspiring vegetable gardens, including Mount Congrieve in Waterford. Local GIY groups will also be working with schools around Ireland to support them as part of the Incredible Edibles programme.
Saturday 26th March
Visit Knockdrinna Farmhouse Cheese maker in Stoneyford Co. Kilkenny
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Learn about the artsan manufacture of cows, goats and sheep milk cheese.
Enjoy a tasting session involving a number of local artisan food products.
Time: 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or if necessary 087-6780014
Sunday 27thMarch
Visit Jerpoint Abbey and Goatsbridge trout farm, near Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
Host: Ger and Margaret Kirwan www.goatsbridgetroutfarm.com
Learn about sustainable fish farming producing excellent quality product in a very natural environment. A tradition that has a 2,000 year heritage in this location.
Enjoy a light lunch featuring fresh and smoked fish from the farm
Time: Meet at Jerpoint Abbey at 11 a.m., trout farm at 11.45 a.m.
Booking is essential as spaces are limited. Lunch €10 per person
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or if necessary 087-6780014
Sunday 27thMarch
Talk on the History of Wine in Waterford City & Port, over the last millenium.
Host: Eamonn McEneaney of Waterford Treasures Museum
Location: T&H Doolan, Waterford Historic public house in the City centre
Time: 3 p.m. All welcome - free of charge
Sunday 27thMarch
Comeragh Mountain Lamb spit roast with the trimings on the grounds of Waterford Castle
Host: Head Chef Michael Quinn & Tony Barry & students of WIT
Photo exhibition on the traditional Waterford Blaa
Modern Irish music
Meet the visiting students from the University of Gastronomey in Italy.
Time: 7.30 p.m. -10 p.m.
Special Slow Food price: €22 per head
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or if necessary 087-6780014
Monday 28th March
Bread making demonstration by Michael Quinn at Waterford Castle
Meet visiting students for the Slow food University in Italy
Time: 10.30 a.m. -12 Noon
Cost €10 per person
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
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Monday 28th March
Display of local artisan foods at Ardkeen Food store, Waterford City
Host: Colin Jephson
Opportunity for tasting and discussion about buying phillosophy
Local artisan producers are particularly welcome to this free of charge Slow Food event.
Time 1 p.m – 2 p.m.
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
Contact:
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or if necessary 087-6780014
Monday 28th March
3 p.m. Dunhill Ecopark, Co. Waterford www.dunhillecopark.com
- Visit a typical sheep farmer during the lambing season – meet the producer/sheep farmer
- Beekeeping demonstration
- Talk on heritage beef production by Joe Condon – an organic, hill beef producer
- See the community garden, new orchard, pollytunnels etc and meet the tutors of the Fás alternative farming course.
5. p.m. Boatstrand in the Copper Coast Geopark www.coppercoastgeopark.com
- Learn about sustainable foraging of different seaweeds on the Copper Coast, Co. Waterford. Hear about the culinary uses and the nutritional benefits.
- Seaweed soup will be provided.
Price: €10 per person, accompanied children under 12 are free of charge.
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
Contact:
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or if necessary 087-6780014
Monday 28th March
Dine in the Culinary College WIT - A classical celebration of the richness of our local food.
Host: Kieran Byrne President of WIT
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Price: €30 per person
Booking is essential as spaces are limited
Contact:
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or if necessary 087-6780014
Delegation to Turin 21st to 24th of October 2010
Savour Kilkenny
Terra Madre Day: December the 10th 2010
September'10: Waterford Harvest Food Festival in Waterford City
September
10th-19th: www.waterfordharvestfestival.ie
- All-island Slow Food Market
- Healthy picnic for young families in the Park
- Taste workshops
- Great value restaurant trails
- Whiskey tasting
- Study tours of local artisan food producers
- Black pudding & sausage making competitions
- Community dine-outs
- Cookery demonstrations
- Many fringe events
- Attractive value for money packages for visitors
July: Afternoon at Knockdrinna Farmhouse Cheese
KNOCKDRINNA FARMSHOP & CAFÉ OPEN DAY
Stoneyford, Co. Kilkenny
Come and Join us on Sunday 4th July, 2pm – 6pm
- Free Cookery Demonstration with Ann Neary, Ryland’s Cookery School
- Pig on a Spit – slow roasted pig – finger licking delicious
- Meet the producer – local food producers stalls, ice cream, cup cakes, home baking
- Kids Activities – Run by Scoil Ciarain Naofa Parents Assoc.
- Small Animal Farm- come and see the duck, geese, hens, pigs, goats
PROCEEDS OF THE DAY IN AID OF Stoneyford National School
June: International Students Visit
Saturday June 26th: Dinner with International Students from the “University of Gastronomy” in Bra, Italy
Enjoy a meal featuring the best local produce and traditional entertainment in the The Thatch gastro-pub in Granny, near the new bridge on the road from Carrick-on-Suir.
Speakers will include local artisan food producers.
Places are limited and will be filled on a first come basis in relation to booking.
Price: €20 per person, including starter of Waterford style ribs and main course based on the best Irish beef and seasonal vegetables.
Sunday June 27th: Breakfast in the Waterford Institute of Technology
Light Irish breakfast at 9 a.m. in the Culinary College with staff & students
All Slow Food members are welcome free of charge however booking is essential. Contact Donal at 087-6780014
Sunday June 27th: Course on Irish Baking in WIT 10 a.m. to 12 Noon
Booking is essential: This costs €10 per head - free to Slow Food members. Contact Donal at 087-6780014
1 p.m. Sunday June 27th: Barbecue on the pier in Boatstrand, on the Copper Coast in Waterford
Starter: Shellfish – crab, cockles, mussels, periwinkles & oysters
Main: Demonstration of filleting and barbecuing mackerel, new potatoes and fresh local salads
Dessert: Carrageen Moss pudding
Price €20 per person
Booking is essential - Contact: Donal at 087-6780014
Sunday June 27th: Evening on the mountain with International Students
5 p.m. Talk by Willie Drohan “Comeragh Mountain Lamb” Hill Farmer
See the sheep in situ, their diet and environmental management.
6. p.m. Sheep shearing
7 p.m. Feast and Ceili in local farmyard on the slopes of the Comeraghs
- Roast lamb on spit
- Music, song and dance
Places are limited, booking is essential. Contact Donald at 087-6601862
Price: €30 per head including a drink and the music [€25 per head for Slow Food members]
May: Open day at Omega Speciality Beef Farm
in the Nire Valley, near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Omega beef visit Sunday the 30th at 1 p.m.
Followed by Convivium AGM at Hanoras Cottage in the Nire Valley near Ballymacarbery at 3 p.m.
Dinner based on the omega product and other local slow food specialities at circa. 4 p.m. Thanks to Joe & Eileen Condon.
Contact Donal Lehane - 087-6780014;
April: International Grandmothers Day at Dunhill, Waterford
Sunday, 25th April
Slow Food Ireland - Four Rivers Convivium is proud to host an afternoon, celebrating our local heritage with our Grandparents
Venue: Dunhill Ecopark, Co. Waterford
Time: 12 noon to 3 p.m.
Opening: Rita Byrne: Reading of the Fenor 2010 book on local folklore, forgotten practices and ways of living.
'Forgotten Skills Workshops'
1. Gardening for free: seed saving and storage - with Audrey Maguire
2. Gardening for free: seed saving and planting and others - with Ayla Tuohy
2. The secrets of seaweed: harvesting, nutritional benefits and baking - with Grace O'Sullivan
3. Something for nothing - with Fiona O'Neill
4. Letter writing workshop: write a letter to your grandchildren or grandparents - with John Halligan
5. Craft skills - with Fiona O'Neill
Tree planting ceremony in Dunhill Community Garden in honour of all the Grandparents gone before us
All grandparents, their grandchildren and their extended family are welcome
Charge: €5 per adult which includes tea or coffee and some fresh bakery “to kill for”
Plant and Cake Sale
All proceeds go towards Dunhill Hall and a Defibrillator for Fenor community
On the previous day: Saturday the 24th of April at 12 Noon, Grandparents will teach grandchildren and their friends, how to sow seeds in the raised beds in the Dunhill Community Edible Garden at the Ecopark. International food writer and photographer
Paola Gianturco [ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ] will record the occasion for publication in her forthcoming book. All grandparents and their families are welcome. There is no charge for participants for the photo shoot on the Saturday.
Friday the 23rd Of April '10
Slow Food International Speaker at National Jobs Conference in the South east
Sarah Fleming of the Slow Food movement in Italy, presented a case study on the closure of Fiat, in Turin, and on how regeneration of the area, by harnessing rural tourism, can be directly replicated in rural Ireland, albeit on a smaller scale. www.dunhillecopark.com
Waterford Festival of Food
in Dungarvan & Lismore, Co. Waterford,
Friday April 16th to Sunday April 18th
See: http://www.welcomewaterford.ie/festivaloffood2010
The 3rd Annual Waterford Festival of Food
Food Trails, Cookery Demonstrations, Cake Decorating, Talks and Walks, Farmers Market Extravaganza and lots, lots more.
Foraging for Slow Food on the Copper Coast in Waterford
28th March, 10.30 am
Around the time of the equinox, spring tides are most favourable for the collection of Dillisk, Carrageen Moss, other seas vegetables and other sea creatures.
This year in cooperation with The Copper Coast Tourism group, Slow Food Ireland is planning it’s annual “Foraging on the Beach” event on Sunday morning the 28th of March beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Kilfarassy Beach on the Copper Coast near the village of Fenor in Co. Waterford.
Learn when and how to harvest this free food, full of nutritious constituents and valuable trace elements for healthy living. Enjoy this great day-out in a wonderful environment with all the family.
Speakers at the event will include Bruce McDonald of the Copper Coast Geopark
Bring a shopping bag to collect your spoils and ideally wear wellies. Don’t worry if you don’t have them, but wrap warm.
Subscription: €5 per person – accompanied children are free of charge
Note the event is weather dependant.
For queries contact Paula: 051-396686 or Donal at 087-6780014
2009
Harvest Food Festival
In September 2009 Waterford hosted the Harvest Food Festival and provided a fantastic opportunity for people to engage with food producers across the region and to enjoy a wide range of food from all over Ireland. The Farmers Market concept was taken to a new level with the Food Theatre, which hosted a very successful display of outdoor cooking, including a spit-roast, a massive paella pan and onsite baking of the famous Waterford blaa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucjVeFWIEsw
Other Recent events
2009 August: Open-day
at Goatsbridge Trout Farm
– Ireland oldest and most sustainable fish farm run by Mag & Ger
Kirwan and their family. Wonderful meal produced and served by local
artisan food producers, celebrity visitors: Darina, Kevin Dundon,
presentation by Eileen Bentley of Bord Bia on support for artisan food
producers
2009 September:
Waterford Harvest Food Festival, incorporating the All-Ireland Slow
Food Market with 110 stall-holders and 25,000 visitors on the day. The
festival ran from Friday to Sunday and involved visits to a chocolate
maker, a permaculture community garden, a venison farm, barbecues,
feasts, hog roasts, food theatre, cheese & wine reception, whiskey
tasting and appreciation course, “Grow it Yourself” conference, a slow
food picnic / sports for under 12’s and their parents and a food
tourism seminar. We hope to run the event again from the 10-12th
September ‘10
October:
Eight months development work by 14 small scale and home food producers
presented a wide range of innovative food products to the public. This
programme was organised by the Kilkenny Enterprise Board with input
from the South East Convivium of Slow Food Ireland. Prizes were awarded
to the product that had the best commercial potential and the one that
was most innovative. Creamers Grove won the commercial potential prize
for its ice-cream birthday cake and Christine Jordon won the innovation
prize for a range on wonderfully presented prepared dough products made
with the finest butter and local ingredients.
November: Dinner
in Blackberry
Café in Thomastown for local members and friends celebrating local
produce food & drink.
December’09: WIT culinary students invited all the local small scale and artisan food producers in their locality to lunch on Terra Madre day on the 10th to celebrate all that is good and to listen to the artisan producers tell their stories and the heritage of their products.