Wicker Coffins

Countrywide Full Episode 14.11.2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Della Kilroy talked to restauranteurs about why so many of them congregated around Washington Street, including Praveen Madire from Andhra Bhavan restaurant.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The rise of unhealthy food environment has been mirrored by  slide in the number of trained food professionals. One of the most critical now is butchers. Suzanne Campbell visits butcher Eoin O'Mahony in the English market to get a sense of how butchery is changing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cork community garden play a large role in fuelling Cork's buzzy restaurant scene. Chef Aishling Moore from Goldie has a well earned reputation for inventive and sustainable at the same time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In North Cork, Barry Hickey runs a community garden in the Glen Resource Center has one scheme tackling food deserts. He has started selling the produce of that garden, and donate packaged goods, in a community blighted by food poverty.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cork officials in Council and other agencies o government have seen how community gardens and other schemes were placing society's hands on the scales of the local food system and tipping away from big food and junk food. Marion O'Reilly from HSE Slaintecare asked the community - are there other thing that you think we could do to make things better? The community's answer was - there's lots. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Togher, south of Cork City, lies an impressive community garden in a hares corner of the park. Philip has a conversation with Derry Desmond, a man who was getting much more out of that garden than jut the food that was growing in it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Watergrasshill, just a few miles outside the city, Bushy Park Farm has converted from a small dairy operation to a community garden. John Murphy borrowed the idea from a Dutch cooperative scheme that is feeding thousands, and he too has big ambitions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

However much smaller the eventual CAP budget ends up being, who gets what proportion of it is entirely in the gift of the Minister for Agriculture. We ask Martin Heydon what guarantees he can give farmers, and we speak to him about the stalled cuts in farming emissions.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Land Agent Mike Brady has a great view of what way money is actually spent in the rural economy and how subsidy payment changes impact. He sees an irresistible push in the direction of farms consolidating and scaling up that will be accelerated by the new CAP. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.