Ballykilcavan Farm and Brewery

24/06/2026

If you are an established food producer or just starting your food business journey, this is a chance to meet fellow producers, hear what’s planned for the year ahead, share ideas, and celebrate the Midlands’ rich food and drink offering.

Join us for the Midlands Flavours Network Gathering, a welcoming event bringing together food and drink producers from Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and Longford to connect, collaborate and shape the future of our regional food community.

📍 Location Ballykilcavan Farm and Brewery Stradbally
📆 Tuesday 30th June | 10am - 1pm

Register FREE here
https://www.localenterprise.ie/laois/training-events/online-bookings/midlands-flavours-network-gathering.html

Hosted by Network Manager Bernie Everard on behalf of the four Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), this gathering will introduce MidlandsIreland.ie Flavours Network Programme for the next 12 months and highlight exciting opportunities to support growth, visibility and collaboration across the sector.

Laois County Council
Laois Chamber Alliance

Connect Laois
LaoisTaste.ie
Local Enterprise Office Longford
Local Enterprise Office Westmeath
Downtown Portlaoise
Portlaoise Enterprise Centre
Laois Tourism
Laois Farmers Market

24/06/2026

As always when there's an event on here, I completely forgot to take any photos for most of it, but just to say a huge thank you to the Farming For Nature organisers and to everyone who came here for a wonderful couple of days. Very inspiring hearing about what everyone else is doing to improve sustainability and profitability on their farms and let's hope we can do it all again next year.

23/06/2026

Great fun being on the Laois panel for the Claire Byrne show on Newstalk, live from the visitor centre here at the Farming For Nature festival. Always terrifying doing live radio, but made much easier by the company of Mary-Claire Fitzpatrick (MC) and Evelyn Cusack.

Lots of positive stories about Laois, farming and food production throughout the show which was great to hear.

21/06/2026

Always one of the most exciting and nerve wrecking days of the year when Barry from the Laois Barn Owl Project comes out to check if we have any chicks in our barn owl box.

Delighted to find out that we have four healthy young owls this year - three girls and a boy. They've lost nearly all of their fluffy down and should be thinking about leaving the box in about three weeks.

20/06/2026

The events team are hard at work setting up for next week's Farming For Nature festival. Tickets are completely sold out, but there is a wait list for anyone who would still like to attend.

20/06/2026

19/06/2026

Looks like it might be worth checking for gold in the brewery yard.

19/06/2026

A finely tuned machine, and the bottling line. Joe O'Driscoll hard at work filling fresh bottles of Bin Bawn.

17/06/2026

Our next public tour of Ballykilcavan is on this Friday (June 19th) at 2pm. A bit of family history, a look at the 18th century farmyard, a brewery tour and a guided tasting of our beers.

Link to tickets is in the comments.