Galway growers issue a 'save our summer' plea for consumers to support local

Despite all the bountiful summer harvests, it is during the summer time that many of the Keavey's regular customers break their routine.

The Keavey's said that with growers unable to compete on price as supermarkets stock their shelves with cheaper produce imported from abroad, their farm and the eight other growers its business supports now form part of just 1% of farms in Ireland to still be using their land to harvest vegetables. Picture: Kirsty Lyons

A Co Galway organic family-run farm has issued a "save our summer" plea urging consumers to continue supporting local food producers over the coming months. 

Summer marks the point in the year when the output of organic Irish fruit and vegetables from Green Earth Organics, a 28-acre farm growing 20 different crops in Corrandulla run by husband and wife team Jenny and Kenneth Keavey, is at its peak.