The number of Irish farmers growing vegetables for the nation’s dinner tables has halved over the past 20 years.

The word sustainable is quite the buzzword nowadays, endlessly bandied about in conversations about climate change, food security, the state of the oceans, farming and food but what exactly do we mean by sustainable food… and where can we source it?

A major new scientific report says the world needs to reduce consumption of red meat and sugar by 50% by 2050.

This week, Derval O’Rourke is chatting about healthy food choices whilst pregnant which is really important for her at the moment as her baby bump grows!

Children who grow their own vegetables are more likely to foster an interest in science, improve their interpersonal skills, and eat healthier, says Kya DeLongchamps.

Joe McNameebrings you the latest news from the Irish food world.

It seems as a nation, we’re just not eating our greens — or our oranges, or bananas, or much of what is good for us.

Valerie O’Connor comes upon a forgotten clump of native asparagus and is prompted to make it the centre of a quick and easy, vegetarian meal.

The chance to have their own soup recipe to get selected for commercial production is on offer for teenagers who take up a challenge to grow their own vegetables.

Consumers are facing a vegetable shortage as poor weather across Europe is hitting supplies to super-markets.

While you plant over-wintering veg let us not forget autumn-planted fruits. 

Fiann Ó Nualláin says you don’t have to wait to next summer to reap a food crop, so begin planting early. 

With hepatitis, e-coli, listeria, and other foodborne illnesses increasing across Europe, fresh produce has been identified as a potential source of food poisoning.

Fiann Ó Nualláin says the act of gardening means we get a high all the way from setting to reaping our crops. 

Pippa Greenwood of Gardener’s Question Time, gets the plot plant-ready.

Below-cost vegetable sales are driving farmers out of a sector worth €350m annually to the local economy, the IFA said at protests outside Lidl and Aldi outlets.

The Government has been urged to take firm action to ensure there will not be repeat this year of the type of behaviour shown by supermarkets two years ago when vegetables were virtually given away at Christmas.

When it comes to brussels sprouts, the perennial joke is that you couldn’t pay some people to eat them but what is no joke is the fact that it sometimes doesn’t pay farmers to grow them.

IS there anything comparable to the delicate, delectable and innocently sweet taste of fresh peas popped straight from the pod?

Brilliant orange, crunchy, and crammed with flavour, nothing quite compares to the earthy, sweet taste of a freshly pulled, home-grown carrot.

Kitty Scully says these vegetables require little maintenance year-on-year.