GIYers appreciate food skills

That’s one of the conclusions we can draw from the early success of the new Grow it Yourself (GIY) movement.

Within a couple of months of Michael Kelly kicking it off in Waterford, there were six GIY groups within a 50 mile radius.

A journalist who moved with his family to the city five years ago in search of the “good life” of growing their own vegetables and keeping hens and pigs, he found it hard to get useful advice.