Save Our Spring- An Garraí Glas

Early morning Friday at the height of Storm Éowyn we lost three of our four polytunnels and they had not been easily got.

It was a month into the farm's 13th year and it was unlucky.

Our one acre farm in the Connemara Gaeltacht is a bold little place perched on a low hill, producing food and looking out to the Atlantic.

Its fields are not flat. Its soils are not deep.

But it is Hardy.

Our farm produces more calories than it has any right to for the people of south and north Connemara and for Galway City.

To produce the calories we use up a lot of our own calories and the balance is not an easy one. .

We are looking for 15,000 at least to

*replace the plastic on tunnels 1, 3 and 4

*cover loss of revenue for the crops lost

*put more concrete down to hold the frame of T3

*pay for labour and tradesmen to come in to carry out work in time for the start of the season

*and finally get the last bits in place to close in tunnel 4, our propagation tunnel so we can start sowing once more

If I ask you for support for our farm, you should know that there is no guarantee that something like it can’t happen again.

It would be fair of anybody to point out too that if we need the help at all, then as a business, we are in too precarious a place to support.

But we are not in too precarious a place as we ourselves see it.

Rather it is the world that is in a precarious place, and farms like this are part of what we need.

They nourish populations in more than just good food and calories.

Small farms function to help tie communities together, educate the younger generations, fight the corporate system with high quality over convenience/quantity.

We produce Genuine Organic Vegetables here not corporate, convenient food stuffs.

As an organic farm our chemical free food supports human health naturally.

We are not producing food to keep you alive, we are producing food to make you thrive and no one on the farm wants to stop.

We all want to see the first true leaves rise up together in the Spring.

We want to keep on delivering our greens, our roots, our bulbs, our fruits.

We want to keep on becoming more efficient throughout our season; those gradual, gradual improvements that reward customers with functional farming.

We want to open our road-side shop in April and close it in November.

To give our interns the Summer of their lives and open up the place to children and to tours once again and finish our season with an end of harvest concert in the top fields.

And then sow our cover crops to rejuvenate our soil in the Winter.

And when the winds blow once again we want to sleep at night.

If you can help at all and you believe in making small farms work give whatever you can and we will be here and we won’t let you down.

Go Raibh Maith Agaibh ❤️