UNIQUE FOOD TOUR TO ATTRACT NEW VISITORS TO GET TASTE OF GORGEOUS IRISH COUNTY
Waterford City is to attract more tourists with a brand new food tour. Food producers, sustainable farmers, and food foragers have come together to create a brand-new experience for tourists in Waterford.
The unique experience will explore Irish cuisine and local culinary delights. The experience takes place against the backdrop of the county’s Comeragh Mountain range on a Taste Waterford Mountain Splendour Tour.
This summer there will be guided Mountain Splendour Tours on offer on June 14, July 19, August 23, and September 27. Each tour departs at 10 am and returns at 4 pm to The Granville Hotel in Waterford City, where the chance to enjoy their award-winning breakfast before you depart is also on offer.
Expert Tour Guide Johnny Landers was born and raised in the Comeragh Mountains. He will meet tour-goers and offer them a unique insight into the landscape, and life on the mountains.
Visitors will learn about folklore and the heritage of the hills. Then, the foods that can be lived on from the land will be shared on a foraging trail led by expert forager Andrew Malcolm.
Visitors will then head into the heart of the Comeraghs and meet French-born Clotilde Kiely and get an insight into her sustainable, organic farm. She’ll talk about what it’s like to work on her 16-acre farm in the wilds of the mountains, ensuring her crop of mixed salad leaves and seasonal vegetables are efficiently delivered directly to customers and to wholesalers, along with eggs from her flock.
After that, the tour attendees stop off at the Mahon Falls in the Comeragh Mountains to meet sixth-generation Comeragh Mountain sheep farmer Willie Drohan and his sheepdog Ben. He’ll talk about this special landscape, show visitors his distinctive Scottish Black Face sheep, and explain why mountain lamb is so unique along with an expert demonstration of shepherding performed by Willie and his dog ‘Ben’.
To finish the experience, tourists visit Willie’s farmyard cafe ‘Cooney’s Yard’ where they will enjoy a lunch of seasonal produce inside this stunning converted barn Cafe. Tickets for tours are available at €110 per person via tastewaterford.ie.
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Richard Povey, Taste Waterford project manager said: "Waterford is home to many food growers and market gardens and farms of all kinds, the landscape is diverse with 2 mountain ranges a 147km coastline, and the great rivers of the Suir and the Blackwater - all of these assets create a diverse and thriving food story and we are delighted to be able to share an authentic insight into our award-winning and sustainable food scene on the Mountain Splendour Taste Tour this summer."
Meanwhile, Tour Guide Johnny Landers commented: "Visitors on the Mountain Splendour Tour are in for a feast for the senses and a tour with a huge diversity of offerings. It’s not often that you get a chance to get out into the fields, meet the producers, meet the animals, hand-pick some food yourself and hear how many sustainable farming practices of old are the future of food, so this tour is certainly unique and a treat for all who come along to enjoy it."
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