Debbie Shaw’s Beetroot and Walnut Cake

ANDREW and Leonie Workman from Dunany in Co Louth are unique: they grow, mill, pack and distribute their organic spelt, rye and wheat from their farm.

They’ve only been selling their produce for a year and a half and already it has developed quite a following. Recently they came down to Ballymaloe Cookery School to tell their story at a Slow Food event.

Andrew and Leonie met at agricultural college in the UK and then returned to Ireland to their family farm where they farmed conventionally for 23 years. Gradually it became more challenging as the cost of fertilisers increased and they became aware and concerned about the damage they were doing to the environment and the land.