Spring Newsletter!

Mar 20 2015

The Sun is still shining here in Inagh after a glorious St Patricks day! Its been a long winter but Spring has sprung and we have lots of events coming up here on the farm and around the country.  

There are going to be some super food festivals this year. Firstly the 4th Annual Food Festival in Galway http://www.galwayfoodfestival.com is kicking off from the 2nd to the 6th April. Our lovely Siobhan will be tasting cheese in Sheridans Cheesemongers on Friday 3rd April from 11am to 2pm. If you miss her there, you can catch up with her at the The Malthouse Restaurant from 4-5.30pm the same day.  Sinead will have a festival special cheese stall in the Galway Festival Market on Saturday 4th April. 

The beautiful Mairead Garvey is pictured above at the recent launch of the Burren Food Trail and Burren Slow Food Festival. Thank you Mairead you are always a great ambassodor for us! The latter is a week long festival this year and details can be found at http://www.slowfoodclare.com/festival/ - make sure to put 16th to 24th May in your diary,  there is bound to be something for everyone in this years line up. 

There are more and more farmers markets springing up around the country. This Sunday 22nd March there is a new market in Gort, Co Galway, you can find our Sinead there with a huge range of cheeses and olives. Sinead can be also found at the Limerick Milk Market every Saturday year round & Kinvara Market every Friday from the 3rd of April. 

Back here on the farm, our farmshop and museum will once again be open from 1st April, Monday to Friday (ex Bank Holidays) 9.30-4pm. We will be having the first of our Open Days on the farm on Tuesday 26th April from 12-2pm.  Farm Tours are also recommencing from April.  To book for the Open Day or if you wish to book a private tour please contact info@st-tola.ie or 065 683 6633

St Tola is making headlines in a few magazines this year. The April edition of Easy Food will feature an article and recipe for St Tola as part of our prize as winners of Blas na hEireann - it will be in the shops 3rd April! Over in the UK this lovely article was published in Good Things magazine https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wgu4h1z3zzknjim/AABE-DafUg8W393hbPR9PkOda?dl=0

Thanks to everyone for supporting St Tola over the winter and I look forward to seeing some of you at festivals or here in Inagh

Siobhan