It all started with a bulb of garlic. Michael Kelly, the man who would go on to set up the Grow It Yourself (GIY) movement, had his Road to Damascus moment in a supermarket a little more than a decade ago when he noticed that the garlic on the shelf had come all the way from China.

The Menu believes the GIY (Grow It Yourself) organisation, founded by Michael Kelly in Waterford in 2008, to be one of the most important new food movements in many a long year.

The €1.45m centre for Grow It Yourself (GIY) — which was officially opened in Waterford the other day — was the brainchild of Michael Kelly, founder of the movement dedicated to promoting home-grown food.

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth several years hence at the perceived loss of national sovereignty on foot of the bailout.

Two billion people are starving or malnourished across the globe, while hundreds of millions more are obese.