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Issue 44 2025

2025 saw the development of our new Member Relations dept; whose main purpose is to focus on how we can support you all now and into the future. We have been more focused on members’ feedback and suggestions than ever before, and we are already seeing the positive outcome of this work!

Issue 43 2024

This was the year we brought back the National Organic Food Fair, the first in a decade. The event helped to showcase the best that organics have to offer in the country. This was also the year where we saw further developments across our systems, moving all our inspections online. We appreciate you sticking with us while we bed in these changes!

Issue 42 2023

What an amazing, fantastic, challenging, eventful year we've just had! So, where to start! This year we have seen a great deal of firsts in the Organic sector- firsts that have been called for by many of you for years, but that have finally come into view.

Selected articles

• Seed Saving
• Stop Treating Soil Like Dirt
• The Mart, More than a Sales Outlet?
• Oliver McCabe: Organic Odyssey
• Native Irish Honey Bee Conservation Areas and the work of the Native Irish Honey Bee Society
• Vets Corner

Issue 41 2022

l am delighted to be given the opportunity to be part of this team at such an important and exciting time for the Organic sector. During my career I have had the opportunity to interact and work with multiple industries and sectors across Ireland. In the past two years, as a result of Covid, I have seen first-hand how many of these sectors have been badly affected.

Selected articles

• A Bird on the Farm is Worth...
• Profile: Carrow Coffee and its big sister Carrowgarry Farm
• Protecting Farmland Pollinators
• Organic Profile: Nibbed

Issue 40 2021

Who would have thought this time last year that we would be sitting here now with Covid 19 still such a factor in our lives. Things have definitely improved however with the ongoing effect of 'it' being something we all appear to be a bit more prepared for - although not withstanding the tough challenge that 'it' is.

Selected articles

• Holistic Management within the Chaos - Observing the land through the four ecosystem processes
• Member Profile: Castleruddery Organic Farm
• Cut the Crap and Cook
• What if we valued food in terms of nutrients & ecological health instead of dollars or calories?

Issue 39 2020

Well 2020 - an eventful year, for some in the sector a time of great opportunity and others a tough challenge! Its fantastic to see the changes businesses have made to ride these turbulent times, and many will take these new habits forward into the future!

Selected articles

• Drumanilra Revisited (2020)
• Drumanilra Farm - Part 1 (2017)
• Healthy Hedgerows on Your Land
• Farm Safety: How Aware Are You?