This program features an Organic Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Day organised by the Wicklow branch of SlowFoodIreland.com

The event was hosted by Brenda McKenna and her niece Lauren in the totally edible organic front and back gardens of their house in a housing estate in Saggart on the outskirts of Tallaght!

Brenda and Lauren take us on a tour around their garden and demonstrate how they have turned the small urban garden into an organic/biodynamic fruit and vegetable garden.

We pot up some salad seedlings to make a “cut-and-come-again” salad leaves box and a herb one too. The idea of a “cut-and-come-again” box is that it will provide you with all the salads and herbs you need for the rest of the year!! You simply cut off what you need, and allow the leaves to re-grow so you can cut again!!

We then go inside for a 9 course tasting session made from vegetables, salad leaves, herbs, edible flowers and berries from Brenda’s garden.

If you would like to contact Brenda to find out more about some of the very tasty courses she is running give her a call on 087 679 5494 or you can email her at “brendamck(at)eircom.net” (replace the (at) with @)
Tell her we sent you!!

Big thanks to Michelle Darmody and Hermione Winters of Slow Food Ireland and to all the Slow Foodies who came along on the day and allowed me record them. It was a really great day with a great bunch of people!!

You can download Program 2 of the 10 part series here:

“Grow it, Cook it, Eat it” Program 2

Please leave a comment once you have listened to it and let us know what you think or share any food related thoughts with us.

I will upload some photos at the weekend.

Thanks for visiting!

Michael Lemass