Losing the Plot
Green Bites
English - July 18, 2020 09:01 - 37 minutes - 86 MBFood Arts Science Nature cooking ecology farming food sustainability culinary environment growing irish soil Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When Ireland went into Covid-19 lockdown, allotments were not given an exemption under food production and allotment-holders all over the country were locked out during a vital growing window. Ellie visits Cork allotments on the day they re-open and enlists the help of Junior Agriculture Minister Pippa Hackett and food historian Regina Sexton to ask....when it comes to growing our own, has Ireland lost the plot?