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Update Thursday noon: Ballina Shire Council has agreed to allow the Ballina Farmersâ Market to expand.
The decision will allow the markets to go from a maximum of 30 to 60 stalls.
Councillors commented during the debate on the success of the market over the years.
The motion was carried with all present councillors voting for it, except for Cr Eoin Johnson, who opposed it.
Original story: The Ballina Farmers Market could soon expand from 30 to 60 stalls, if Ballina Shire Council approves the move.
Councillors will debate this week a proposal for a larger scale farmers market, and other community events where possible, at Commemoration Park.
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Update Thursday noon: Ballina Shire Council has agreed to allow the Ballina Farmersâ Market to expand.
The decision will allow the markets to go from a maximum of 30 to 60 stalls.
Councillors commented during the debate on the success of the market over the years.
The motion was carried with all present councillors voting for it, except for Cr Eoin Johnson, who opposed it.
Original story: The Ballina Farmers Market could soon expand from 30 to 60 stalls, if Ballina Shire Council approves the move.
Councillors will debate this week a proposal for a larger scale farmers market, and other community events where possible, at Commemoration Park.
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Úna Ní Bhroin, Beechlawn Organic Farm, Ballinasloe, Co Galway Brussels Sprouts
I met Padraig [Fahy, her husband] at the organic college in Dromcolliher and we started our business in 2002 on an acre of land on his family farm. The farm was not traditionally organic; it had been a dairy farm but Padraig’s father stopped when pasteurisation came in in 1979. Padraig had a bit of horticulture in his blood, as his grandfather had been the head gardener at the Ballinasloe asylum and grew lots of vegetables there.
Padraig’s mother and father helped us at first. We started with a vegetable-box delivery for 20 customers, mainly family and friends. That grew to about 120 customers. Padraig was teaching horticulture full time with Fás and in Castlerea Prison, and gradually he gave up over a few years as the business grew.