Tipperary family business named overall winner at organic awards

Tipperary family business Crowe’s Farm has been named overall winner of the National Organic Awards 2012.

Crowe’s Organic Dry Cure Back Rasher product was selected for its high quality, superior taste, and smart packaging.

Bord Bia’s food and beverage director, Tara McCarthy, said: “The judges said that the Organic Dry Cure Back Rashers from Crowe’s Farm represent a traditional Irish product taken to a new level. The packaging is smart — full of information about the product and the farming family behind it. It also tastes great.

“The rashers were a really high quality; they held their cooking shape and were full of flavour, but not overly salty. They are worthy winners, representing all that is good about Irish organic farming.”

This year was the sixth year of the National Organic Awards, which take place during National Organic Week each year. Organised by Bord Bia, more than 100 entries were received and awards were given in eight different categories.

nOther category winners included: Irish Organic Potatoes, Keogh’s, Dublin (Best Organic Fruit & Veg); Irish Organic Sea Trout, Irish Seafood Producers Group, Connemara, Co Galway (Best Seafood); Organic Jumbo Oats,Kilbeggan Organic Foods, Westmeath (Best Grocery); Organic No Added Sugar Vanilla Kids Yoghurt, Glenisk, Killeigh, Offaly (Best Dairy); Smoked Irish Organic Salmon, Burren Smokehouse, Co Clare (Best Organic Prepared Food); Bloom Mountain Organic Irish CreamLiquer, First Ireland Spirits, Abbeyleix, Co Laois (BestBeverage); and Wilkies DarkChocolate, Wilkie Chocolate, Co Dublin (Best Confectionery).