Richard's Select Organics

19/10/2026

Organic inspection passed 🙌 we've a clean bill of health for another 12 months

19/10/2026

Happy Monday friends 👋

Today is our annual organic inspection. For over a decade now we've been growing organic vegetables here on our small market garden in Mallow. It works, despite the considerable efforts by the agri chemical industry to convince us otherwise. Thanks to all our customers for your continued support 🙌

18/10/2026

We had our first frost of the winter season last night. That should sweeten up all our organic root crops nicely. In response to cold they convert some of their stored starch into sugar, a type of antifreeze if you like. Nature is class 🙌

10/10/2026

09/10/2026

Oh FFS 😫

"Regulator says forever chemicals found in Irish cereals should be classified as toxic"

Lads, this isn't a controversial take, it's not lefty, liberal wokery, it's not green fanaticism, its not elitist preaching, it's just good old common sense. Toxic chemicals are poisonous to us, poisonous to our environment, poisonous to our water, our soils and our wildlife. They belong no where near our food system.

The agri chemical industry would have us believe it's not possible to grow food without chemicals. The existence of hundreds and thousands of organic farmers across the world, producing wonderful, nutrient dense, safe food for their communities is a thorn in the side of that narrative.

Everyday, 3 times a day, we get to choose the type of food system we want. Please support your local organic farmers whenever and wherever you find them

08/10/2026

Put me down as "Unsurprised" 😐

06/10/2026

Service day 🔧

Thanks to Tom, Mark and all the team at Munster Drilling, another great local business, for looking after our water 💦 for another year.

All of our vegetables are irrigated with water from our own well which is filtered using a UV light. No synthetic chemicals go on our crops or in the water they drink 🙌

06/10/2026

Feeling hot hot hot in our autumn compost pile 👀

65 degrees Celsius perfect 🙌 at this temperature any pathogens or w**d seeds that have gone into the heap will be killed, the raw ingredients begin to decompose rapidly, but crucially those all important micro organisms are still alive.

By next spring this will be a sweet smelling, delicious pile of black gold, ready to feed our spring crops.

Life springs from death 🙌

04/10/2026

We have a lot of cookbooks from a lot of different chefs. But this time of year, to celebrate the autumn harvest, we come back time and again to Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall . Comforting, nourishing, delicious. The things one can do with vegetables 😋😋😋

04/10/2026

Eating an organic apple straight from the tree is surely one of life's great pleasure 😋

We're putting in another 10 , dispersed throughout the market garden this winter. November is a great month for planting. If you have space anywhere in your garden get it done, even the smallest trees can produce over 100 fruit.