Basic Income - Online Conversation
2025-11-27 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Dublin)
Join us for a small group and open conversation with other farmers around Talamh Beo’s current ‘Strengthening Local Food Economies’ project, with special focus on the Basic Income Model for farmers. This event is for food producers. Register your interest to attend at www.talamhbeo.ie/oc
Event will be repeated monthly for 6 months in order to get maximum farmer input.
Register your Interest here

Radical Agrarian Reading Group
2025-11-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-01-25 19:00 - 21:00
Last Sunday of each month.
The challenges of revolutionizing our food system into one which is just and sustainable are huge, and the issues highly complex. Solutions are already being developed and reading about them will help learn lessons from what has and hasn’t worked elsewhere, provide a foundation for moving forwards, and allow us to strategise more effectively to produce the necessary system change. The Reading Group is open to growers, farmers, activists, researchers and food system professionals, and will meet monthly, on the last Sunday evening of each month (7-9pm).
Email Barry Ferguson at ferguson.barry@gmail.com for more information.

Online launch of our new position paper: "Methane Reduction Through Food Systems Transformation."
2025-12-10 15:30 - 16:30
Join us for the online launch of our new position paper: “Methane Reduction Through Food Systems Transformation.”
Event Details:

Date: Wednesday, December 10th @ 3:30-4:3o PM
Location: Online Zoom

Register for the Event – click here
This event will detail how adopting an agroecological approach can effectively reduce methane emissions within our food system while simultaneously addressing critical systemic issues that contribute to environmental, economic, and social decline. This is an essential discussion for anyone involved in agriculture, environmental policy, or food sovereignty.
We encourage you to view the full position paper ahead of the launch here: https://talamhbeo.ie/projects/methane-matters/

Rooted in Strength : Women, Climate & Food Justice
2026-02-06 10:00 - 13:00
Friday Feb 6 @ 10am, Irish Museum of Modern Art
Rooted in Strength : Women, Climate & Food Justice – this event is still being finalised, more information and registration on Eventbrite
Join us to raise awareness of the difficulties that farmers face due to extreme weather events and help brainstorm solutions.
This event is for anyone interested in learning about, or advocating for local food systems – policy makers, people working for services and agencies, practitioners, researchers, activists, campaigners and small businesses using or interested in using local ingredients in their products.

Basic Income Online Conversation
2026-02-16 20:00 - 21:00, 2026-02-26 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for a small group and open conversation with other farmers around Talamh Beo’s current ‘Strengthening Local Food Economies’ project, with special focus on the Basic Income Model for farmers. This event is for primary food producers.
This is one of the final events in this series.
Register your Interest here

Feeding Ourselves Annual Gathering
2026-03-26 10:00 - 2026-03-29 17:00
SAVE THE DATE – 26th to 29th of March, 2026, Cloughjordan
Feeding Ourselves Annual Gathering – Once again we will come together as local food producers, community food initiatives, researchers, and advocates in our 4 day annual gathering and community of practice, there will be talks, workshops, walks and of course delicious food to be shared. Talamh Beo members will be present and involved most days with a special focus on the Friday as part of our Strengthening Local Food Economies project.
Head here for the full schedule & registration.

Changing Landscapes
2026-05-14 08:00 - 17:00
See full details https://www.hometree.ie/changinglandscapes

National Biodiversity Week
2026-05-15 - 2026-05-24
Join us for a very exciting line up of free 14 Farm Walks for National Biodiversity Week 2026 which takes place all across the country from 15th-24th May. Book any walk via Eventbrite here.

Future Oak Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Donegal 2026
sunday 17th @ 12pm
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/future-oak-farm-biodiversity-walk-co-donegal-2026-tickets-1986633749022?aff=oddtdtcreator

Manna Organic Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Kerry 2026
friday22nd 10am to 1pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1986633652734?aff=oddtdtcreator

Gorse Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Carlow 2026
Saturday 16th @ 11am
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/gorse-farm-biodiversity-walk-co-carlow-2026-tickets-1986633636686?aff=oddtdtcreator

Skehana Hill Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Kilkenny 2026
wednesday 20th at 5pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1986633700878?aff=oddtdtcreator

Mount Allen Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Roscommon 2026
sunday 17th at 11am
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/mount-allen-farm-biodiversity-walk-co-roscommon-2026-tickets-1986633661761?aff=oddtdtcreator

Comeragh Mountain Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Waterford 2026
Saturday 23rd at 11am
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/comeragh-mountain-farm-biodiversity-walk-co-waterford-2026-tickets-1986633616626?aff=oddtdtcreator

Tattie Hoaker Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Sligo 2026
saturday 23rd at 2pm
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tattie-hoaker-farm-biodiversity-walk-co-sligo-2026-tickets-1986633415023?aff=oddtdtcreator

Cloncannon BioFarm Biodiversity Walk Co Tipperary 2026
Sunday 24th at 2.30pm
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cloncannon-biofarm-biodiversity-walk-co-tipperary-2026-tickets-1986633562464?aff=oddtdtcreator

Síolta Chroí Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Monaghan 20256
Sunday 17th @ 11am
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/siolta-chroi-farm-biodiversity-walk-co-monaghan-20256-tickets-1986633570488?aff=oddtdtcreator

Leagh Farm Organics Biodiversity Walk Co Kerry 2026
saturday 23rd @ 12pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1986633723947?aff=oddtdtcreator

Knockvicar Alpaca Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Roscommon 2026
Sunday 17th, at 15h00
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/knockvicar-alpaca-farm-biodiversity-walk-co-roscommon-2026-tickets-1986633608602?aff=oddtdtcreator

OURganic Gardens Farm Biodiversity Walk Co Donegal 2026
Friday 22nd at 11am
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1986633669785?aff=oddtdtcreator

Heart of the Living Forest Biodiversity Walk Co Wicklow2026
SAturday 16th May 10am
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/heart-of-the-living-forest-biodiversity-walk-co-wicklow-2026-tickets-1986634411002?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Barna Way Farm, Co Kerry – Tuesday 19th May, 11am

Ardnaculla Summer School - Hometree
2026-05-15 08:00 - 2026-05-17 17:00
Ardnaculla Summer School, 15 – 17th May, 2026
A community and ecology festival promoting learning, connection and regeneration.
Join us for three days of discussions, workshops and field trips.
See all details – https://www.hometree.ie/ardnacullasummerschool

SLFE Webinar
2026-05-19 15:30 - 16:30
Feeding Ourselves Webinar
Securing our Food Sovereignty
This will be an Online event, part of the Strengthening Local Food Economies Project.
Tuesday, May 19th @ 15:30 – 17.00
As global shocks expose the fragility of Ireland’s input-dependent, export-oriented food system,we ask – what would it take to secure our food sovereignty?
The session will explore how measures including public procurement, a stronger domestic food economy and changes in trade dynamics can help build a fairer, healthier and more resilient food future.
Register here or through the QR code
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/al5uvVKlT6CGLDLbqFRSdQ

Featuring guest speakers:
Morgan Ody is General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, and a small-scale vegetable farmer from Brittany, France. La Vía Campesina (from Spanish: la vía campesina, meaning the peasant way) is a global farmers organization of small and middle-scale food producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It includes 182 organisations in 81 countries. With a strong focus on food sovereignty, it mobilizes and advocates for agrarian reform in peasant territories and provides training on agroecological production methods.
Sophia Murphy is Executive Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). She is a food systems and international economy expert whose work is focused on resilient food systems and international trade. IATP’s mission is to work locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems. It takes a systems-based approach to identifying measures that could support agroecology and food sovereignty worldwide.

Talamh Beo x Gluaiseacht Youth Field School
2026-06-05 - 2026-06-07
Talamh Beo x Gluaiseacht Youth Field School (Cloughjordan)
Full details & Registeration HERE
This summer, Talamh Óg will link up with Gluaiseacht to host a weekend-long field school dedicated to skills sharing, practical workshops, and movement building. All farmers, landworkers, activists, and food systems reformers under 40 are invited to attend. Registration will open soon so stay tuned for more details! To get involved in planning or in Talamh Óg generally, you can email youth@talamhbeo.ie.

Farming for Nature
2026-06-22 - 2026-06-23

The Mary Robinson Climate and Nature Conference 2026
2026-07-09 - 2026-07-10
Food and Care: A Meitheal for Our Time 9th & 10th of July 2026

National Heritage Week
2026-08-15 - 2026-08-23
Farms Walks & Tradition Skills

Heritage Walk - Gorse Farm, Co Wexford - 18th Aug @ 2pm
2026-08-18 14:00 - 16:00
Heritage Walks
Gorse Farm, Co Wexford – 18th Aug @ 2pm
Future Oak Farm, Co Donegal – 22nd Aug @ 12pm
Freighduff Organic Farm, Co Tipperary – 20th August @ 6.30pm
Places limited – please book via Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/talamh-beo-59674285283

Heritage Walk - Freighduff Organic Farm, Co Tipperary - 20th August @ 6.30pm
2026-08-20 18:30 - 19:30
Heritage Walks 2026
Gorse Farm, Co Carlow – 18th Aug @ 2pm
Freighduff Organic Farm, Co Tipperary – 20th August @ 6.30pm
Future Oak Farm, Co Donegal – 22nd Aug @ 12pm
Places limited – please book via Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/talamh-beo-59674285283

Heritage Walk - Future Oak Farm, Co Donegal - 22nd Aug @ 12pm
2026-08-22 12:00 - 14:00
Heritage Walks
Gorse Farm, Co Carlow – 18th Aug @ 2pm
Freighduff Organic Farm, Co Tipperary – 20th August @ 6.30pm
Future Oak Farm, Co Donegal – 22nd Aug @ 12pm

Places limited – please book via Eventbrite – https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/talamh-beo-59674285283

Electric Picnic - Global Green
2026-08-28 - 2026-08-30
Come visit us at the Global Green. Stradbally, Laois

Ploughing Championships
2026-09-15 - 2026-09-17
Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly

Burren Winterage Weekend
2026-10-23 - 2026-10-25
TBC Kinvarra The Burren

Feeding Ourselves Local Food Symposium
2026-10-29
Thursday 29th October 2026 | Trinity College Dublin
Following on from our work on the Strengthening Local Food Economies project this will be an event to present research findings and take the next steps needed to a recognised & resourced Local Food Producer base in Ireland!
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In October, Feasta, Talamh Beo and Cultivate, in collaboration with Trinity Sustainability, will host the Feeding Ourselves Local Food Symposium, marking the culmination of the two-year Strengthening Local Food Economies in Ireland research and advocacy project.
With support from the IEN, the project has explored how Ireland can better recognise and support local food producers, strengthen local food economies, build stronger connections across the food system, and develop practical policy proposals that enable farmers, communities and local food initiatives to thrive.
The symposium will launch the project’s key recommendations, including proposals to improve the income stability and viability of local food producers, present a concrete proposal for a Basic Income for Local Food Producers, and highlight wider economic measures that can strengthen resilient local food economies.
The afternoon will feature powerful contributions from Irish farmers, local food practitioners, researchers and policy leaders, alongside engaging discussions and opportunities to connect with others working to transform Ireland’s food system from the ground up. Dr. Rupa Marya, food activist, author and physician, author Chris Smaje, and Jo Poulton who leads the UK campaign for a Basic Income for Farmers (BI4Farmers) will contribute.
As capacity is limited, attendance is by invitation only. If you or your organisation would like to express an interest in attending, please email alison.brogan@feasta.org. We cannot guarantee a spot for all who are interested, but will do our best to include you.

Farming for the Future - ECVC General Assembly
2026-11-19
Save the Date: Thurs 19th November 2026, time TBC

Talamh Beo & European Coordination Via Campesina will be hosting an event at the Aula Maxima, Maynoothduring the EU Presidency.
Come along to hear about:
-Perspectives of farmers from across Europe
-The positive future offered by Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
-Young farmers and generational renewal
-Women in farming
-La Via Campesina, the world’s largest social movement with over 200 million members
-How we can build a better food and agriculture system together

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