Bord Bia Bloom returns for its 20th year from May 28 to June 1 in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, welcoming over 100,000 visitors across five days. The festival includes 20 new show gardens and offers new features, expert talks, and immersive experiences. Burren Smokehouse will operate in the food village, offering smoked Irish Organic Salmon, mackerel, trout, and eel, with online food gifting and bookable experiences at its visitor centre in Lisdoonvarna. Wild Irish Seaweeds will also be in the food village, supplying seaweed to the global market for over 100 years. Sallyann’s Handmade Bags will present handbags made from water-repellent fabrics lined with recycled jeans, featuring designs inspired by Irish wildflowers. Foodtree Collective will bring fruit, nut, and native trees to the nursery village, working to regenerate Ireland’s food systems through trees, education, and community action.
"Taking place from Thursday, May 28, to Monday, June 1, in Dublin's Phoenix Park, the most celebrated Irish festival of gardening, food, and sustainable living, returns for its 20th year. With a host of new features, expert talks, and immersive experiences, the festival expects to welcome over 100,000 visitors over its five days, which will play host to 20 new show gardens at the centre of the experience."
"Burren Smokehouse will set up shop in the food village area of the festival, bringing an array of smoked Irish Organic Salmon, Irish Mackerel, Irish Trout and Eel to the table. Based in Lisdoonvarna, the smokehouse offers an online food gifting service as well as bookable experiences at their visitor centre."
"Wild Irish Seaweeds will join their county-mates in the food village, with a range of their seaweed available to those interested. The Quilty-based company has been supplying the global seaweed market for over 100 years through four generations of seaweed harvesters from the west coast of Ireland."
"Sallyann's Handmade Bags take centre stage. Clare-based designer, Sallyann, makes individually crafted and unique handbags from water-repellent outer fabrics, each lined with a pair of recycled jeans. Her designs are crafted to celebrate the wildflowers of Ireland. Sallyann also makes accessories from environmentally sustainable fabrics, also printed with her unique floral designs."
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