When I go fishing, I love to bring a smoking box. It’s so easy to do; you don’t even need a special smoker.

THE National Organic Centre in Co Leitrim is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

WE are just back from another action-packed school tour. 

NOWADAYS, in our busy lives, years can flash by in a hectic blur. Suddenly we realise that we haven’t seen or sometimes heard from favourite cousins or even aunts and uncles for years.

WE’VE christened Itamar and Sarit from Honey & Co, ‘The Honeys’ — because they are just that. 

There was great excitement in Midleton on the Bank Holiday weekend. The Midleton Farmers Market was joyfully celebrating its 15-year anniversary.

This has been a wonderful week, I found myself giving heartfelt thanks to the good Lord and Mother Nature several times over.

WE’RE all still on a high from the Litfest. Apart from all the antics and stimulating talks, forums and panel discussions in the Grain Store and Big Shed, there was also a packed schedule at the Ballymaloe Cookery School with three and sometimes four events running simultaneously. This week I want to share some of my personal highlights.

FORAGING. Beware, you can get hooked.

There’s great excitement at Ballymaloe this weekend for the third Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine, which by now is affectionately known as the LitFest, a mega two day celebration of great food and drink and food writing.