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Seed to Supper The Journey of Your Food from the Ground Up with Michelle Darmody

Join author Michelle Darmody for a hands on event for kids which will get them thinking about where their food comes from.

In this fun session Michelle will show participants and give them the opportunity to plant seeds and bring them from seed to supper.

This event is free as part of the Sheridans Irish Food Fair admission (€10 per adult, under 18s free) however you must register as places are limited.

Seed to Supper The Journey of Your Food from the Ground Up

How does your food get on your plate? Where does it come from? How does it grow? How does it travel around the globe to get to you? And once you have it, how do you cook and eat it?

Seed to Supper takes you through every stage of food’s journey from its start as a seed in the soil to the table via the kitchen and everything – and everywhere! – in between. You’ll not only learn how to grow, buy and cook food, you’ll also learn how what we eat affects the planet and see how people eat and share food at dinner tables around the world.

With cooking tips and easy recipes you can make yourself, DIY activities, interesting anecdotes and fascinating facts, follow your food from the ground up and see how food connects us all.

A bit about Michelle

Award winning writer Dr Michelle Darmody is the author of Seed to Supper, the

journey of your food from the ground up. The book aims to help children become

better engaged with where their food comes from, by breaking down every stage of

food’s journey. Beginning with a seed to delicious plates of food, Dr Michelle

encourages children to not only learn how to grow, buy and cook food, but how what

we eat affects our planet. The book stems from her PhD, which focused on

environmental food education for children and her research projects have won

RETHINK Ireland Social Innovation funding.

Michelle founded internationally acclaimed bakeries The Cake Café and Slice and

established Our Table, a social enterprise supporting people living in direct provision.

Over the past year Michelle has been using her expertise to inspire and motivate

communities to grow their own food and promote food security in Irish

neighbourhoods through a climate action project entitled Our Shared Plate.

Michelle’s extensive knowledge of the sustainability and the food landscape also

stems from the creation of large-scale events tackling climate change, such as Eat

the Streets, for Dublin City Council and Summer Rising, for IMMA. Michelle is not

only a regular commentator for Irish media, but her work has also featured in

international publications, such as Vogue, Condé Nast Travel and Leisure, and Time

Magazine. She has judged MasterChef and been featured on Anthony Bourdain’s No

Reservations and the Food Network in the US.