Why I’m Not Bothering with Organic Certification
5 reasons why our friend Donal, who has been farming organically for over twenty years, has not renewed his organic registration for the past seven years and has no intention of ever doing so again
Greenwashing: The Art of Sustainable Lies
Greenwashing: The Slippery Slope of “Sustainable” Lies Greenwashing is when companies exaggerate or fabricate their environmental credentials to make their products look more eco-friendly than they really are. It’s usually, but not always outright lies—often, it’s clever marketing that leaves out the unpalatable details. Walk into any supermarket and you will be confronted by promotional […]
Some tips on sowing vegetables and flowers for Summer Abundance
With the weather brightening up again, many new to garden will start rushing out and buying seeds now and many of those seeds will perish before they even germinate and will never get to express themselves as healthy vegetables or beautiful blooms.
Why Your Own Patch of Earth is the Best Teacher
There’s a certain wisdom that only the seasons can teach. Like seeing your first tulip push through wet spring soil. Or losing a row of lettuce to a sudden warm spell. Or a bed of carrots to the dreaded root fly. It’s messy, imperfect, and sometimes maddening—but it’s real.
A Quiet Revolution in How You Eat
It’s a familiar feeling. You walk into a supermarket with the vague idea of buying “something healthy.” You’re greeted by rows of spotless, identical produce—courgettes from Spain, apples from Chile, carrots from Holland. All of it wrapped in plastic. All of it sprayed with toxic chemicals. You pause. There’s too much choice, yet somehow nothing that calls to you. You dither. Then, almost without thinking, you reach for the usual suspects—maybe a head of Spanish broccoli, a few insipid imported tomatoes, a bag of chlorine-washed lettuce—and move on. The good intentions are there, but they’re muffled under fluorescent lights, cling film, and more carcinogens than an ounce of tobacco.
Now imagine the opposite. It’s Friday afternoon and a box of fresh vegetables arrives at your door. The carrots were grown a few miles from your house. The spinach smells like it was just cut. The salad leaves are aromatic and crisp. You know it all came from local growers, and much of it originated on the same farm that cooked your breakfast roll last Saturday—where you bought jam made from local fruit, and where you chatted to someone who could tell you not only how the vegetables in the box were grown, but how to cook them.
Suddenly, cooking feels different.
There’s something quietly motivating about having a box of fresh produce waiting to be used. It isn’t about flashy recipes or guilt-tripping yourself into eating greens. It’s about rhythm. You start planning meals around what’s in front of you. You roast a tray of beetroot because they’re there, earthy and real. You figure out what to do with a swede for the first time in years. You chop and taste and stir not because you have to, but because it feels like the right thing to do.
What happens, almost without trying, is that you eat more vegetables. You waste less. You discover that turnips fried in butter and thyme are genuinely satisfying, that leeks can be more than soup, and that raw cabbage, sliced thin and dressed with lemon and oil, is a thing of beauty. The pressure to “eat healthy” melts away, replaced by something more sustainable: eating what’s in season, from a place you trust, cooked in a way that makes sense to you.
A produce box doesn’t just offer food—it offers limits. And with limits comes creativity. You’re not overwhelmed by choice; you’re given a clear, manageable starting point. And that matters. It turns cooking into a habit, not a chore.
At Bare Acre, we grow much of what’s in the boxes ourselves, using organic methods and focusing on soil health, flavour, and seasonality. What we don’t grow, we source from other farms in the region who share our values. It’s not perfect, but it’s real. No air miles, no pointless plastic, no shiny apples glowing with toxins.
When you take home a Bare Acre produce box, you’re not just buying vegetables—you’re buying into a different way of eating. One that’s grounded, local, and refreshingly straightforward.
And, week by week, it changes how you eat.
Why Our Salad Mix is More Than Just Delicious
Why Our Salad Mix is More Than Just Delicious At Bare Acre Farm, we’ll begin harvesting our popular Salad Mix this week, and it will appear on our shelves and in our produce boxes this coming weekend. But aside from great taste and freshness, there’s another major difference between our salad — grown in rich, […]
The Real Price of Cheap Flowers
Behind the bright blooms are the injustice of poor wages, long hours, and poor working conditions.
While not every imported bouquet comes from an exploitative system, the industry has long struggled with labor abuses—especially for women.
Life on the Veg with Bare Acre Farm’s Produce Boxes
By choosing a farm-fresh veg box, you support a decentralised food system—one that prioritises local farmers over supermarket supply chains and corporate profit.
Fresh, Seasonal, and Thoughtfully Curated: A Look at Bare Acre Veg Boxes
Fresh, Seasonal, and Thoughtfully Curated: A Look at Bare Acre Veg Boxes
At Bare Acre Farm, Dave & Ber put a lot of care into selecting what goes into our vegetable boxes. Each one is built around what’s in season, what tastes its best, and what works well together in the kitchen. Instead of trying to cram in as much as possible, we focus on making sure every item is something you’ll want to use, whether it’s a staple you rely on or an ingredient that inspires you to try something different.
Designed for Real Cooking
A good veg box should take the guesswork out of meal planning. That’s why we build ours around how people actually cook. The Super Salad Box, available from May to mid-October, is packed with crisp leaves, fresh herbs, and crunchy vegetables that make putting together a good plate of food easy. The Roast Box is full of hardy roots and brassicas that shine in the oven, while the Soup Box includes ingredients that simmer down into something warming and satisfying. Each one is balanced to make sure you can get a few different meals out of it without too much effort.
Grown and Sourced Locally
What’s inside our boxes changes throughout the year, but the principle stays the same: everything is Irish-grown and as fresh as possible. In the hungry gap, we buy from trusted growers who share our approach to quality and sustainability. As the season progresses, more of the produce comes straight from our own fields. You’ll always know where your food is coming from, and you’ll be eating what’s naturally at its best.
How to Get One
We offer our veg boxes for pre-order right here on the website . If you’re not sure which one suits you best, we’re happy to talk you through what’s in season and what might work for you. Whether you’re after a weekly veg box or just want to try something different now and then, our boxes are an easy way to bring good, local produce into your kitchen.
December at Bare Acre Farm: A Time of Growth, Preparation, And At Least A Little Festive Cheer
We’re incredibly excited about what’s to come in the new year. Based on your feedback, our flower and vegetable production is set to expand beyond the farm. Dave will be bringing our produce to a wider audience at farmers’ markets starting in March 2025.
