Going Dutch: Meet the Cork volunteer farmers growing their own 'gorgeous' organic vegetables

Based on the ‘herenboeren’ model, farm allows people from all walks of life to grow their own, writes Niamh Griffin

Minna Murphy and her son Ronan pack freshly harvested vegetables in the sorting room at Our Farm at Bushy Park near Kildinan in East Cork. Pictures: Chani Anderson

Cork woman Siobhain Steele has not bought vegetables in a shop in two years.

That was when she joined a community farm and now she is in no doubt growing your own food is “magic”.