About Darina
Cookery School Founder • Farmer • FFN Ambassador
Co-founder of the famous Ballymaloe Cookery School in 1983 and more recently the Ballymaloe Organic Farm School in East Cork, Ireland. Students come from all over the world to hone their culinary skills at this sustainable, biodiverse Farm-to-Table project.
Food, Farming & Education
Founder member of the Irish Farmers’ Market Movement, East Cork Slow Food Convivia Leader, Chair of Artisan Food Forum, Farming for Nature Ambassador.
Writing & Recognition
Weekly food columnist in the Weekend Section of the Irish Examiner. Author of 21 bestselling cookbooks and André Simon Award winner.
Received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from Listowel Food Fair and Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the year in 2001.
As a Farming for Nature Ambassador, Darina champions local food, farmers’ markets, and biodiversity, highlighting the link between good farming and good food.
See Darina at the Festival
Join Darina at the Farming for Nature Festival and hear her perspective on the connection between food, farming and biodiversity.
