Excitement as Students return to Agri Aware Farm Walk & Talk
The Agri Aware Farm Walk & Talk series has returned as a live in-person experience for the first time since 2019. Farm Walk & Talk is an interactive series of events for second-level, agricultural science students throughout early March on ten research farms across the country. While Farm Walk & Talk was a brilliant success […]
Incredible Edibles | Conahy NS is our School of the Week
Agri Aware Farm Walk & Talk returns with in-person events!
The Agri Aware Farm Walk and Talk Events are back, with students once again able to attend in person. Farm Walk and Talk is a series of events for second-level, agricultural science students throughout the first two weeks of March in ten locations across the country. This year, all schools that attend the Farm Walk […]
Farm Safe Schools 2022 | ‘The importance of Farm Safety’ | Minister Martin Heydon TD
The Importance of Farm Safety, from Martin Heydon T.D., Minister of State with special responsibility for Farm Safety. As Minister with responsibility for Farm Safety, I am delighted to be able to support the Farm Safe Schools Programme for 2022 following on from the successful pilot in 2021. It is important that farm safety is […]
Minister Josepha Madigan launches Agri Aware Incredible Edibles schools healthy eating programme.
Minister for State at the Department of Education Josepha Madigan was on hand at Airfield Estate in Dundrum to launch Incredible Edibles 2022. Schools can sign up to Incredible Edibles from Friday November 26th here. The Minister with responsibility for Special Education and Inclusion was able to sample some homemade soup on the morning, a […]
Agri Aware Red C Survey shows 94% of Irish People see Farming as important to the Economy.
In a survey commissioned by Agri Aware, Red C found that the vast majority of Irish people are supportive of Irish farmers. The poll found that 94% of respondents believe that Irish Agriculture is important to the economy, with 75% saying it was ‘extremely important’. This is a significant rise since 2007 (72%) and 2017 […]
AgCredible Academy Event | Irish Agriculture | Communicating our unique story
Irish Agriculture | Communicating our unique story, was our first AgCredible event of 2021. We were delighted to welcome such great engagement and positivity on the day. Agri Aware Chairman, Alan Jagoe opened the day at the Killeshin Hotel saying “Today is a great day to be bringing farmers together to communicate our unique […]
New Schools Programmes for this School Year
Minister Martin Heydon launches Dig In! Fun Fridays Webinar series
Martin Heydon, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture paid tribute to Ireland’s ‘vibrant’ agri-food sector at the launch of Agri Aware’s new Dig In! webinar series for schools. Agri Aware is bringing their Dig In! educational resource to life with added modules and new series of in classroom webinars. Photo: Alan Jagoe, Agri […]