Make sure you are at rock bottom, before you look up…

by Kenneth Keavey

When you think it almost couldn’t get any worse, this week has proved make sure you are at rock bottom before you start looking up!

On a positive note, the weather has been fantastic, as a person without a farm I would be celebrating having a summer. The reality from a food growing perspective is a little different though, we are heading into the end of 2 months with very little rain, our weather station is reading a large moisture deficit.  Here in Galway, this is or was once a very unusual occurrence. You know those once in a lifetime climate events they used to talk about, that now happen all the time!

So out came the water tanker this week. Our crops are really struggling we have disease and drought stress across the crops. We purchased the water tanker after the serious drought of 2018, and while conditions so far are not as bad as they were then, they are pretty bad, so the tanker is out and we are watering, we have to water as the soil resembles more of a desert that a farm in Galway.

We have also taken out our old sprayer, and as luck would have it, both machines broke down. The sprayer is important as the dry soil mean very little water is going into the veggies which means they are not getting nutrients and as a result they are suffering both from lack of water and lack of food.

For the first time that I can remember we have aphid (Green fly) infestations in our brassicas.  So, we have been scrambling around, we have bought a new sprayer, and we hope to have the water tanker operational again. So yesterday we were out spraying seaweed and a liquid nutrition boost (made from plants) and micronutrients also, and finally an herbal tonic to boost the immune system of the plants. Fingers crossed it helps.

The long-term forecast is for a dry August, that will be month three of little rain, so we must get on with the time-consuming job of spraying and watering. We are lucky though here in Galway we have access to water and there are no fires.

Spare a thought for all those in France and Spain and across the world that are burning and suffering the worst impacts of the climate breaking down. Meanwhile the Fossil fuel companies are rubbing their hands together as they no doubt make record profits again from the high price of oil. They are responsible for our planet burning.  Man made climate change is our reality now, and it is happening all around us, every single year.

I see it here with my own eyes.

Having said that, we are doing all we can in our little corner of the world, and there are many people like us and your support is a vote for a cleaner greener future.

Anyway, back to watering and spraying and harvesting. Your support especially during the summer keeps us going and growing, so, thank you.

Kenneth

PS We have finalised the lineup for our sustainability festival in September and it promises to be an amazing day, if you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, please click here to get yours now. This is a not-for-profit event.

PPS We have at last the first new Irish organic potatoes from Cameron at Battlemountain farm and we are so excited, check them out here. His crops are also suffering from drought, so they are later than usual and smaller than usual, but they are here now.

A remarkably stressful rollercoaster

by Kenneth Keavey

The last few weeks have been a remarkably stressful rollercoaster. If you think local sustainable food growing is important, we still need your help.

We have gone from our lowest level of orders in 9 months to the highest in the space of one week, then a week later we are dropping back again. We have gone from a huge harvest from our farm to harvests being impacted by heat stress, the irony of tomatoes not ripening because the temperatures in our polytunnels have exceeded 45C is not lost on me.

This week we are facing a new crisis, the soil moisture levels are at a critical point, we are now irrigating in the West of Ireland. The courgettes are producing massive amounts of fruits, but the leaves are extremely spiky, this only happens when there is not enough water in the soil.

A nationwide hosepipe ban tells us here in Ireland that the water is low, climate change is real, and data centres are definitely not where we want to be using our precious resource. The celery is stressed and as we start harvesting, we have already seen patches that are affected by stress related disease. The sprouting broccoli is bolting, the swedes are struggling, the cucumbers are aborting and leeks are dying.

Our weather station is measuring a drop of 50% in soil moisture content in the last 10 days, with no rain of any consequence on the horizon. Never say commercial growing is for the faint hearted. I have found that the pressures to produce food and then sell the food when we have it can be very challenging. Our chosen model is labour intensive and is about connecting people with how our food is grown. We will not deviate from the path, just last weekend we had over 100 people on our farm walk.

I believe connecting people with our food, with our environment, and the importance of growing food without chemicals is critical for our health and the health of the planet, today more than ever. I imagine as one of our readers, supporters, you may share this view?

Our food system has disconnected us from our food, it has disconnected us from the truth behind our food, pesticides are still in use, maybe now more than ever. Supermarket food culture is based on profit before all else, this has taken its toll on growers not just across Ireland but across the world.

This is not sustainable. There is another way, but this way does not fit the large distribution centres, and the current model of selling fresh food as cheaply as possible. I wonder do we need to start thinking more about value and less about the cost of our food?

When we value something, we are less inclined to waste it, when we value something we hold it close, we become more mindful about it, we treat it with a greater degree of respect. From our perspective as growers, setting aside acres of land each year to allow the soil to regenerate incurs a very real financial cost, but it is repaid in allowing us to grow more nutrient dense food and a stronger more resilient ecosystem.

Most farmers cannot afford such a luxury as they feed into the insatiable supermarket machine, where uniformity and price are the overriding factors in meeting contract supply criteria. So how can we get to a place where growing food without pesticides and with nature is the norm?

Well to be honest that is exactly what we are doing, and your support means the food system we are developing has a chance.

Please continue to support us during the summer.

Thanks

Kenneth

I am so upset, and hopeful…

by Kenneth Keavey

What are we doing to our planet? In equal measure I feel sad and angry, how can we treat our home like we do, spraying chemicals on our land, dumping plastic in our beautiful oceans, consuming resources beyond what the planet can offer, pouring earth warming gases into the atmosphere which may well end up being the greatest travesty of our time.

The never-ending pursuit of profit, driven by greed, this it seems is all that matters to the corporate leaders. The maths doesn’t add up, it cannot continue, we will be the ultimate losers.

Why does the whole fresh food industry have to be based on aggression? From growing to pricing, to selling? Whatever happened to partnership, and fairness? Couldn’t it be different?

The phenomenal scale of corporate greed behind it all, big industry, big ag, big food, they are all the same, and they are ruining our planet. Not only that but these companies and their lobbying groups are causing epidemics of chronic disease. 

It doesn’t need to be like this.

We received a lovely comment from a customer last week, I think it highlights what we have been fighting for, for the last twenty years, and reading this fills me with hope. 

“… Your service gives me time that I would otherwise spend researching suppliers, chasing down seasonal produce and trying to verify how food has been grown and sourced. Instead, I get to spend that time with my children. They eat well, they learn that food has seasons, and they develop an appreciation for quality, provenance and value that extends beyond a price tag.

Most importantly, I am paying for the confidence that someone else is doing the work of finding produce that has been grown and sourced in the way I would choose myself. If I attempted to do that sourcing (or growing!) personally, it would require far more of my own time and effort. In many ways, I am paying for your time so that I can spend mine where it matters most.

The produce is wonderful, but the real value lies in everything that happens before it reaches my doorstep.”

The cornerstone of our business is anchored in healthy, chemical free food, and a food system that restores the earth and by default our health. Our business is a system that is fair to our food producers, to our partners, to our farmers, to our bodies, to our land, to the living creatures we share the earth with. A food system that can enrich our lives, can energise our bodies, that can make us well not sick, and can heal our planet. We don’t have a big farm, but we have many other farms that we work with, farms that share our common goal, to make this world a bit better, to make our health a little better, and to restore some sanity to a food system that has gone over the edge. 

Thank you for using your power wisely, your support is evidence enough for us to keep our heads down and heading in the right direction.

Thank you

Kenneth

Storm Eowyn, and please read to the end for important info

by Kenneth Keavey

Wow, it’s hard to know what way is up at the moment. The last two months have been crazy. We have been bouncing around from one calamity to another and last week was off the scales, storm Éowyn left us reeling as it did most people across the country, a once in a lifetime climate event (They seem to be happening an awful lot recently…). I hope wherever you are that you are safe and that you have the power back on and a bit of heat.

In the aftermath on Friday morning last week I went to have a look around at about 10am as I tried to survey the landscape. I found myself wandering around not really sure what to do (as a friend recently said) “it was like being in the zombie apocalypse”, nobody was really sure what just happened or what to do and everything seemed to have changed. The road into our farm was blocked, a massive tree had come down and there was a huge crater in another part, caused by an equally massive tree falling. There were trees down everywhere. Old trees that were majestic and beautiful around Galway there were thousands gone over night.

We had lost one of our tunnels, and several doors. Power was gone but through some sheer miracle we still had broadband. I know this may not be the top of the priority list, but for us it meant we wouldn’t have to close the farm and the business for the week which was a giant worry lifted.

But as we came to grips with the carnage, a funny thing happened. People happened. On Friday several of us pitched in together and spent several hours clearing trees and filling holes, neighbours you may only ever say hello to, you were now working side by side with. Strangely or maybe not strangely at all, it felt good.

Apart from Ophelia in 2017 followed by the beast from the East followed by one of the most intense droughts ever in the summer of 2018, the last 2 months have given the climate related disaster calendar a good run for its money. Storm Darragh was powerful and caused carnage including the closure of one our main trading routes with the UK and Europe, with the damage and closure of Holyhead. Then there was the ice and snow warning in early January, followed by the most powerful storm to hit our coasts ever, all in less than 2 month.

We now have more extreme weather events climate change is afoot and at a pace never seen before here are some very recent facts just released by the Irish CSO (central statistics office)

2023 was the wettest year ever recorded here in Ireland.

2023 was the warmest year ever recorded here in Ireland, ever.

Globally 9 of the 10 warmest years since 1850 occurred in the decade since 2014.

Many small organic producers had their whole operation wiped out in a few short hours last week, tunnels blown, down, sheds destroyed, so many. The extreme weather is now something we must adapt to, and it is only going to get worse.

With this backdrop, we have been busy with the farm planning and I am wondering what lies ahead for us in the season to come. I would like to think we are due a reasonable summer that is not a replica of the last two. For the sake of our farm, our food and many other farmers and food producers we are hoping for a break. Time will tell I guess.

As always thank you for your support.

Kenneth

PS It seems small businesses are contending with a lot of increased costs, and we are certainly feeling that pain in an industry that is highly labour intensive, and low margin. We have had a substantial increase in our wage bill over the last few weeks, and there are many extra financial pressures being put on businesses and farms. I am sure the bigger companies can take these cost increases on the chin, but for us, we just cannot. Unfortunately, we must put up our prices a little, it will only be on our boxes and fruit bags that will increase a little. We hope you can understand why we need to do this, we would rather not, but at the same time we find ourselves with very little choice.

Clean energy from our roof, and climate change…

by Kenneth Keavey

When it comes to growing food we need water, and not too much but certainly not too little, between May and September 2018 we had the direst summer ever. We had a water deficit here on our farm. We had parched ground that went down 18 inches, never in my lifetime or in my dad’s lifetime had we seen such a thing.

Our planet is burning, it seems like we are walking in an alternate universe, there is so little talk about the climate crisis, as today COP29 finishes. Three weeks ago, Spain was devastated by the worst flooding on record, did you see it? A year’s worth of rain fell in less than half a day in some regions, killing at least 205 people.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. We have seen Europe burn in two successive summers. The impact that this changing climate will have and is having on our food supply will be immense.

The science is clear, and it makes sense, warming oceans mean more water and energy in the air, hence bigger wind and more rain. Last year I remember swimming in the sea off Galway and the water was hot! Another once off. An unheard-of marine heatwave caused an increase of 5C in sea water temperature. These “once off” events are happening more often, the extremes are becoming normalised.

We are not immune here in Ireland either, thankfully we have been spared the worst, or maybe better to say we have been spared the extremes. But how about the relentless rain? I know there will be many who smile and say of course it rains this is Ireland, but this is on a whole new level. It started raining in June 2023 and it didn’t stop here until the end of August 2024. It prevented us getting into the fields to plant, It delayed harvest, it reduced yields, increased disease, it has had a very serious impact. July 2023 was the wettest July ever recorded here in Ireland, EVER!

Why is all of this change happening so fast? We all know the answer to this, we are putting too much greenhouse gases at too fast a rate into the atmosphere. Of course, there are natural variations in the climate but over the last 11700 years we have been blessed to live in a relatively stable climate. This is all on the cusp of changing, but why? Why must we destabilise a planetary system that has allowed us to prosper, to have such abundance like never before?

There is only one reason when clean energy solutions are staring us in the face: GREED. The fossil fuel companies are determined to keep us on this path of planetary overheating. 57 fossil fuel producers have been responsible for 80% of all global CO2 emissions. Of course we need energy, but we can change to clean energy, and we are.

There is such hope in renewable energy, we have these amazing natural resources that are clean and do not pour warming gases into an already overheated atmosphere, why wouldn’t we do it? What is the downside? There is none that I can see.

In 2018 with the help of a crowd funding campaign we got enough money together to install a 10KW solar panel array. Two years ago, we borrowed to increase this and finally with the aid of a grant from the Department of agriculture we installed a further 20KW array this week. I am so excited to have finally taken this step, which brings us one step closer to creating our energy here locally from the sun and becoming carbon neutral. There are so many sheds on farms all over Ireland, and there is good support from the government, if you are in agriculture, surely it is worth a look?

Producing our food locally and harvesting and being able to store it in fridges that are being run by the sun makes me feel very happy. What makes me feel even happier is that there are people like you who believe that taking these steps are critical to protecting our planet.

I can only say, at this time of great change in the world, you are needed now more than ever.

We can only ever take these steps because you support us.

Thank you.

Kenneth

This is a longer one than usual I am afraid.

by Kenneth Keavey

During the week somebody raised a valid point, how can we speak about climate change with any conviction when we import food. I have been considering this since and felt it was a point worth addressing.

We do import food and especially now it is more prevalent than at other times during the year, this is the hungry gap and we simply do not have Irish produce in abundance.

We do import food during other times of the year also and yes that food arrives here on the island of Ireland by truck.  It is important to note that we never import food by plane as do many supermarkets. We also have other sourcing policies that some may find contentious such as never buying produce from Israel.

There is in fact no other option if we want to eat tomatoes or peppers or carrots at present but to import, there simply is no commercial Irish supply. This has been particularly exacerbated by the horrendous growing season last year and the equally disastrous start to spring. We are not a market garden, and we need to grow in scale to have the necessary produce to fill our boxes each week, we are commercial organic vegetable farm. I think it is equally important to point out that there are very few of our type of farm at our scale in the country, a handful maybe.

Right now we are preparing fields we have planted some of our polytunnels and have just put our first plants in the ground this week. This will mean if the weather plays ball and these days that is a big if, we will be harvesting the first kale say in July.

Can we as a result of the issues above talk about climate breakdown and how it effects our farming? Can we voice our opinions on why we think large scale factory farming is horrendous and wrong? Can we say we disagree with deforestation in the amazon to feed the animal industries voracious appetite for GM soya? Can we offer an opinion on the fact that we think trees and hedgerows should be an integral part of the farming landscape in Ireland? Can we state the fact that if there was less meat consumed and more plants that less land would be required for agriculture, irrespective whether you eat meat or not, this is simply a fact?

Our intention is to shine a light on these issues whilst being mindful of people’s preferences for food, which is deeply personal, it is a delicate balance. Whilst also acknowledging that there are phenomenal hardworking farmers of all types in Ireland. Farming is a tremendously precarious industry and that government led encouragement to intensification means many farmers have few choices to change the way they farm.

The idea of the “Green Deal” in Europe being abandoned deeply upsets me and I feel it is a sad day in European evolution, the basic principle that we look after the land and set aside more for nature is exactly what we need to do. But how can farmers who to an extent have been encouraged by certain political parties be expected to foot the bill for these changes at least to a degree, when the price of food is so remarkably low, it is not the farmers and it never is that win from inflation led food price increases or indeed the smaller retailers. It is the large corporates and giant retailers they are the only winners, and they always win. 

The bottom line again of course comes back to the system that we now function within, our food system is inherently broken, and it needs to change.

So, whilst we import produce, we also grow 11 acres of vegetables plus 7 polytunnels worth on a farm of nearly 20 acres, some of which is left to forestry, hedgerows and general rewilding. We have agreements with several organic vegetable growers across Ireland to supply crops that we do not grow, such as potatoes, and carrots, and scallions and cucumbers and many more. All grown organically and in Ireland when in season.

I started this business because my fundamental belief to change our food system and protect our planet are dear to me. We are a small farm by any one’s reckoning but we absolutely do what we can.

We will continue to talk about things that will be disagreeable to some, to many maybe, we hope too to encourage others to think that maybe there is another way, that may provide a small ray of light and that leads to a path of change, after all, we all have power and choices to make change real.

And of course, as I say each week and it is something I mean wholeheartedly, without you spending your money with us and buying the produce we sell whether it is grown by us, or some other Irish organic farmer, or an organic farmer in Spain, we would not  be able to run our farm here, and support the other sustainable ethical farmers we buy produce from and we would not have this forum to say what we believe and what we hope some of you believe too.

So, I hope to that person that raised the issue that this has helped address some of your points.

Thank you for your support you make all this possible.

Kenneth

Three times the amount of honey – Why?

by Kenneth Keavey

I met Gerry who looks after the beehives on our farm a couple of weeks back. He comes onto the farm once or so a week and checks on the bees. On the day we met there was two acres of phacelia (a beautiful purple flower) swaying in the wind behind us and it was covered in bees. Gerry looks after 6 apiaries and of the 6 the one on our farm produces three times more honey than any of the others. The bees are vibrant and strong, and they are in amazing health.

The reasons are not complex, they have an abundance of food, the phacelia being one major food source, but not only that, the early apple blossoms, the courgette flowers, the tomato flowers, the cucumber flowers and all the flowering weeds (good and not so good) that spring up between the plants. The bees are thriving.

The bees have little reason to roam further than our farm and as result they never encounter agrochemicals routinely used in conventional agriculture that can damage our pollinators. One class of chemical that is thankfully now banned were the neonicotinoids, these chemicals when used damaged bee health by affecting their immune system, navigation skills, capacity to forage and communicate, and ability to reproduce.

Without the bees and the other hosts of pollinators we rely on for our modern-day food system we would not be living such a life of food luxury. Our always on food system, the year-round availability is only possible due to a complex and precarious food system and a logistics chain that spans the planet. It is a system dependent on large scale production of crops, heavily dependent on agrochemicals and cheap labour in other parts of the world. We have seen this year that as the climate crisis deepens, climate shocks to our food system can be sudden and deep, the future effects of the climate crisis on our relatively fragile food system will be large.

Nature is a complex web of interactions, it is strong and resilient and can recover from manmade interference, but when we continuously damage nature, or change the climate that local ecosystems work in then we risk damaging nature and our ability to grow food immeasurably.

But, as with the bees on our farm, when we get it right and give a little back then the results can be startling, amazing and larger than anything we expect, and we reap the benefits too: as food producers we have a bumper courgette and tomato crop. The phacelia adds organic matter back to the soil when we cut it, and it allows us to grow something for nature while resting the land.

Something so simple as growing a strip of wildflowers or planting a small area of trees makes a massive positive difference to nature, surely instead of focusing purely on intensification of farming activities, it would not be so hard to weave this into our current agriculture policy as a critical requirement of all farms.

The bees are one of our constant companions here on the farm, but there is a myriad of other unsung heroes that quietly go about their business and never get the recognition they deserve. The flies and beetles, the butterflies and birds, the bacteria and fungi, this whole beautiful complex web of nature all working together help produce better food and make up a rich and vibrant local ecosystem.

Whilst there is much to be done, there is much that is within our power too. Removing chemicals from this chain of life is one clear step we can take to make an instant and recognisable difference to the diversity of nature we share this world with.  Choosing more local food strengthens our local food system and crucially reduces our carbon foot print too.

As always it is your support that makes it possible here on our farm and the farms of our other supporting farmers to do the right thing.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Kenneth

I Am Angry

by Kenneth Keavey

Have you ever felt you just do not fit in, you seem to be going against the grain, that you are different?

This thought struck me as I spotted a lonely white cabbage amidst a sea of black kale today.  Not too dissimilar to ourselves I thought, an outsider, not quite in the right place, definitely not fitting in, being different and not really caring what others think.

Of course, the cabbage is just being a cabbage (and probably not thinking a whole lot about anything, it would be wrong of me to suggest otherwise!), but it started me thinking.  

I continued on my crop walk through the fields and I spotted the most amazing intricate display of spider’s webs on one of our kale plants, it seemed that nature was vibrating and shouting look, look at me I’m doing my thing and I am beautiful.

Nature just works. And we have so little idea of how this amazing and complex interwoven web of life works.  All of the natural world links together and works, it just does, and it is truly amazing. Nothing is forced, it all flows, a natural cycle of life and death, always moving always flowing.

Who are we to impose our will and ideas on this beautiful planet without due consideration for all that we share it with? Who are we to extract all that we can by processes that are clearly exploitive, driven by profit? The price is simply too great and is not acceptable.

When will we realise that our habit of constant and increasing consumption are doing irrevocable damage? That our actions are taking away something beautiful, something we all need to be sane in an increasing insane world and only when it is gone will we notice and then sadly it will be too late.

Some days I get so angry, and I am past caring what people think (I guess age brings certain benefits.) But I am angry, and you too have a right to be angry too with the way we as human beings exploit this gentle and strong and beautiful energy that is our Earth.

We cannot compromise in our decisions, and to an extent this is why, even though I am inextricably linked to the world of business, I don’t have to like it.  Practising mindful, conscious, ethical business in a world that is driven by excessive consumption and low prices is difficult, but it is possible, and we do it. 

We have always committed to growing food in the most sustainable manner possible and only sourcing food from the most sustainable suppliers and paying them fairly.  We have always maintained that this is the only way to farm and to do business.

Like the cabbage in the field of kale we are most definitely outsiders, most definitely the underdog. We have a long way to go, we don’t always get it right, we struggle with the challenges but every day we try a little harder and face the challenges and pain head on.

So, for the sake of our planet let’s get a little angry together and make some changes.

Thanks for joining our movement, let us be the channel for your energy.

Kenneth

Let us deliver sustainably grown and sourced fruits, vegetables and groceries to your door if you feel angry too.

There’s No Planet B

by Kenneth Keavey

Our story this year has many parts to it. The planning and advice, the hard work and organisation of the farm team. The fertility and soil management, the weather and the birds and the bees have all played their part.

Our amazing team of packers, rising each morning sometimes at 4am to get to work at 5am to start packing your orders. Finally, having you our customers willing to supporting our farm and a whole bunch of good luck has got us through to another autumn, my 17th year growing vegetables and our 15th year in business.

Growing vegetables commercially is a tough endeavour and in the stony wet land of the West of Ireland it is particularly challenging.  

The skill and art of growing our food is so important and we need to preserve this knowledge. It is invigorating to see so many small-scale growers embrace sustainable growing.

Yet, many commercial growers are struggling, the work is too hard, the price for their produce is too low, the seasons (due to climate change) are unpredictable, and planning for a market that is ever changing and is sometimes 12 months in the future makes it a precarious undertaking indeed.

As with everything and it is no different in our food system, decisions based purely on financial gain with no regard for our environment are causing devastation to our planet.  

It is much easier for a large supermarket buyer to import cheap produce, grown abroad where labour is inexpensive and where very often the working conditions are poor, and the attention paid to biodiversity is scant than buy more expensive IRISH grown crops.  

I am glad we have you our customers and that we do not need to knock on supermarket doors to sell our produce.

Our harvest is overflowing, now we have parsnips, carrots, swedes, cabbage, leeks, celery, pumpkin, kale and Brussels sprouts, the last of the broccoli and the soon to start purple sprouting broccoli and the first time in 10 years we will have celeriac.

I think you might taste the flavour in your in your boxes, tell us if you do! You will also notice the size of all our crops, the warm September and a soil temperature that is 5C above normal means growth has continued well past when it should have slowed leading to bigger produce. 

The days are closing in now and the weather is wet and it should be cool, but as I write this, we have temperatures here in Galway of 17C and it is 8pm, is this climate change in action right here on our doorstep? 

Our promise is simple, “When you get a box from us you do not need to think about whether you are choosing sustainably, we promise you are”. 

Your support for us means our farm survives and thrives, our people stay in jobs, and we get to mind our little patch of land here in the West of Ireland sustainably.

Thank you

Kenneth

Carbon Neutral

by Kenneth Keavey

Carbon neutral diesel, I came across this last week while filling up our car, I didn’t know there was such a thing.

We have a diesel car and for now we need diesel so I opted for the ‘carbon neutral’ option. 

3 things struck me. 

1. Initially the idea of offsetting carbon emissions by a multi billion dollar company that makes its money from selling  hydrocarbons struck me as false and green washing. 

2. At the same time,  if there is a way to help reduce the damage being done by burning oil then we absolutely need to have that option right now, but this should not give the oil companies an ‘get out of jail card free’.

3. It was more expensive, did I think twice about paying the extra? No, but that is one of my core principles and by extension one of the cornerstones of our business. 

As we are lucky and privileged to live in the first world are we not obligated to pay our share of the damage done to the climate  inherent in our lifestyle? Can we afford not to? 

Yes of course big business has a long way to go and needs to take action now. We all know we need to stop burning hydrocarbons but that will take a little time. But if these companies know that consumer behaviour is changing it will drive them in a greener direction faster and that is a good thing.

Right now we are using our first electric delivery vehicle for all our deliveries to Limerick and Clare and it is working tremendously well, our plan is to make all our delivery vehicles electric by 2025. 

Growing and selling sustainable  food is our business and it is an expensive business to be in and to do it right. 

We have always been at the forefront of sustainable change and we are taking the next step in that journey by being one of the first food delivery businesses in Ireland making deliveries in electric vans.

I am excited to think that by 2025 all our deliveries will be in 100% electric, zero emission vehicles. The ones in Galway will be powered from the solar panels on our packing shed.

Here’s to a greener delivery system. 

Kenneth

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