Sheridans Cheesemongers hosted the second Harvest Festival on Sunday 4th September. The festival was a celebration of food grown or produced within a 50 mile radius of our Virginia Road Station headquarters in Co Meath.

This event followed on from the huge success of last year’s Harvest festival as well as our Irish Food Festival in May of this year, when over sixty Irish food producers and more than 5000 people attended.

The event was again free to attend, including; parking, kid’s activities, music and more and ran from 10am to 6pm.

Festival Exhibitors...

We were delighted to have so many local producers in attendance.

Farmhouse cheese producers included Bellingham Blue and Glebe Brethan, ice-cream producer Bernie Burke, Aine’s Chocolates as well as many more artisan producers of jams and chutneys, bakers, fish smokers, small butchers, organic growers and many more. We also had several areas where local food was cooked and served on site.

Workshops

A variety of workshops were held throughout the day, including children’s workshops and tutored tastings.

• Bread Making 11.30 am
• Raw Milk 1pm
• Kids Workshop 2.15pm
• Grow It Yourself 3.30pm
• Beer and Cheese 4.30pm

Full details of Workshops

Family Fun...

There was plenty to do for all the family:
Kids fun including bouncy castle and slide as well as face painting live music and traditional games.

Traditional Fair Games organised by our local GAA Club

Live Music from ‘Early House Jazz’

Full Exhibitor List

• Bia Blasta
• Cookies of Character (Sheridans Irish crackers)
• Flood’s Butchers
• Aruna Sauces
• Killyconny House Preserves
• Richard Hogan, local veg. Grower
• Forge Restaurant
• Ed Hicks Pork Butcher
• Kerrs Kitchen bakery
• David Llewellyn Apple Co.
• Boyne Valley Blue
• Glyde Farm Produce
• Lara Foods
• An Olivia Chocolate
• Irish Health Oils
• Vanessa Finlow Soaps
• Sharon Crew Knitwear
• Stuart Gibbs Local Potter
• Janets Country Fayre
• Boolies Farm
• Flying Baby Cake Company
• Tiernan Family Farm
• Darcy's Bread and Jam
• Lilliput Foods
• Martin Sawiki home baking
• Rogans Smokehouse
• Martina Keegan, Bee-keeper
• Rocker Foods Chutneys
• Burkes Farm Ice Cream
• Jamanane Boxty Bakers
• Tom Doherty Butchers

We also invited any small local growers to come and set up stall.

Visit our Facebook Event Page for the Fifty Mile Harvest Festival

Visit our YouTube page to see videos of workshops from our May Food Festival

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