Festival Programme

– 2025 –

This inaugural 2025 Festival brought together creative minds, change makers and dreamers to sow the seeds for fresh ideas.

SPEAKERS INCLUDED –
Sir Tim Smit, The Eden Project, Carry Somers, Fashion Revolution, The Land Gardeners, Bay Garnett, Creative director, Coco Panazza, My Wardrobe HQ, Darina Allen, Ballymaloe Cookery School, Simon Coveney, TD, Sean O’Sullivan, SOSV (USA), Mairéad McGuinness, MEP, Brigid Barry, Farming for Nature, Dylan Jones, London Evening Standard, Adam Clayton, U2 and gardener, Mary Fellowes, sustainability expert, Alison Gault, Belfast School of Art, Lilian Gleave, student activist, Tom Grafton, Recomme, Blátnaid Gallagher, The Galway Wool Co-op, Brendan Dunford, Burrenbeo Trust.

Talks

Day 1
Welcome with Tim Smit

Getting Earthy
Speakers: The Land Gardeners - Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld, with Adam Clayton. Moderator: Dylan Jones

Can Fashion Ever Really Be Sustainable?
Speakers: Alison Gault, Bay Garnett, Tom Grafton, Coco Baraer Panazza. Moderator: Mary Fellowes

Farming for Nature
Speakers: Darina Allen, Blátnaid Gallagher, Tom Stack.
Moderator: Brigid Barry

Sewing the Seeds
Speakers: Lilian Gleave, Dylan Jones, Sean O’Sullivan, Carry Somers

The Business of Fashion and Farming
Speakers: Simon Coveney, Brendan Dunford, Alison Gault,
Coco Baraer Panazza, Mario Sierra. Moderator: Tim Smit

Learning from the Past
Speakers: Darina Allen, Blátnaid Gallagher, Mario Sierra, Carry Somers. Moderator: Alison Gault

4pm: If You Could do One Thing
Speakers: Simon Coveney, Mary Fellowes, Mairéad McGuinness, The Land Gardeners - Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld

2050: What Tech can do to stop Climate Change
Speaker: Sean O’Sullivan

Breath In and Let Go
Music with Laoise Leahy and Cian Sweeney

Day 2
Welcome with Fergal McCarthy

Sunday Miscellany
Speakers: Adam Clayton, Brendan Dunford, Alison Gault, Mairéad McGuinness, Tim Smit, Carry Somers, Sean O’Sullivan

Fashion Makes The World Go Round
Speakers: Mary Fellowes, Tom Grafton, Coco Baraer Panazza. Moderator: Dylan Jones

The Future of Fashion and Farming
Speakers: Brendan Dunford, Sean O’Sullivan.
Moderator: Tim Smit

ENDNOTE with Tim Smit

Organic and locally sourced vegetarian lunch available to buy

Venue

New Theatre, Kinsale Community School,
Ballinacubby, Kinsale, Co.Cork

  • Farming for Nature

  • Galway Wool Co.

  • Granny’s Bottom Drawer

  • Mamukko

  • Mourne Textiles

  • Rathlin Wool

  • Remnant Revolution

  • Sister Vintage

  • Sustainable Workwear

  • The Zerowaster

  • Zirkulu

Vendors & displays


SPONSORED BY:

FARM FRIENDS: Gianni & Michael Alen-Buckley, Moya Coulson, Conor Doyle, Peggy Farah, Richard Francis, Kathy Gilfillan & Paul McGuinness, Susie & Denis Tinsley, Tom Quick & Michael Donnell

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Fergal McCarthy, Fiona Heddermen, Niamh Hay and Brendan Barry, Kinsale Community School, Sustainable Workwear

Uniting two worlds and exploring what we farm, wear and the earth we share. A weekend where fresh ideas take root.

“This is one of the most important issues of our times”

— Fashion & Farming

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