Events
Throughout the year, Wexford’s vibrant food and craft community hosts a range of immersive culinary experiences that are open to everyone to take part and enjoy.
Events like woodland foraging walks, farm tours, cycling and picnic trails, fireside chats with chefs and producers, elaborate harvest banquets and hands-on workshops.
A guided garden tour and organic lunch at Kilmokea Country Manor & Gardens
Guided tour of the Kilmokea Food Garden followed by a delicious Organic lunch in the Conservatory. In the beautiful vegetable garden at Kilmokea Country Manor, experience their demonstration of how to grow your own food.
Smokin' Soul Weekender
Bring out your inner pit master at Smokin’ Soul live and interactive masterclass course with Pat Conway and Jim O’Brien. You will answer the call of the wild and deep into all aspects of live fire and BBQ cooking.
Grass Roots Tour - 3 Magical Farms in rural Wexford
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie on a a Magical 3 farm rural Wexford - Grass Roots tour. The tour begins at Goreys Train Station just as the Dublin Train arrives. Here Lorraine will be waiting to greet you. And your story will begin. Visiting Wild About, Dots Plots Donkey Rehoming hub, and Salt Rock Dairy.
The Art of Tempering Chocolate
Learn how to hand-temper chocolate on marble slabs, an old but beautiful chocolate-making technique. Tempering chocolate creates a smooth, shiny, delicious chocolate bar with a perfect snap and brings out the best flavour from the chocolate.
Chocolate Workshop Tour & Experience
Every Tuesday Bean and Goose open up their chocolate workshop for you to see how they make chocolate & create your own bar of chocolate to take home
Smokin' Soul - The 1 Day’er
Begin your journey to becoming the king of the grill at Smokin’ Soul, live and interactive 1 Day’er BBQ and live fire masterclass with Pat Conway and Jim O’Brien from Smokin’ Soul.
Foraging & Folklore Tours of Courtown Woods
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie on a tour of Courtown woods. This is a tour like no other! It is more akin to a rambling workshop as you discover a whole new world under the leafy canopy of Courtown Woods.
The Art of Tempering Chocolate
Learn how to hand-temper chocolate on marble slabs, an old but beautiful chocolate-making technique. Tempering chocolate creates a smooth, shiny, delicious chocolate bar with a perfect snap and brings out the best flavour from the chocolate.
Chocolate Workshop Tour & Experience
Every Tuesday Bean and Goose open up their chocolate workshop for you to see how they make chocolate & create your own bar of chocolate to take home
Foraging & Folklore Tours of Courtown Woods
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie on a tour of Courtown woods. This is a tour like no other! It is more akin to a rambling workshop as you discover a whole new world under the leafy canopy of Courtown Woods.
Grass Roots Tour - 3 Magical Farms in rural Wexford
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie on a a Magical 3 farm rural Wexford - Grass Roots tour. The tour begins at Goreys Train Station just as the Dublin Train arrives. Here Lorraine will be waiting to greet you. And your story will begin. Visiting Wild About, Dots Plots Donkey Rehoming hub, and Salt Rock Dairy.
The Art of Tempering Chocolate
Learn how to hand-temper chocolate on marble slabs, an old but beautiful chocolate-making technique. Tempering chocolate creates a smooth, shiny, delicious chocolate bar with a perfect snap and brings out the best flavour from the chocolate.
Chocolate Workshop Tour & Experience
Every Tuesday Bean and Goose open up their chocolate workshop for you to see how they make chocolate & create your own bar of chocolate to take home
Easter Egg Workshop
Join Karen and Natalie at their chocolate workshop and spend time making your chocolate Bean Goose Egg. Their much-loved chocolate egg is back after a long hiatus. A chocolate egg the same size as a goose egg filled with Irish Sea Salted Caramel. It is the only chocolate egg to have this Easter.
Smokin' Soul Weekender
Bring out your inner pit master at Smokin’ Soul live and interactive masterclass course with Pat Conway and Jim O’Brien. You will answer the call of the wild and deep into all aspects of live fire and BBQ cooking.
Chocolate and Cocktail Evening
Join Bean and Goose for a fun evening of cocktail making and tasting. Together we will make three cocktails that include chocolate as an ingredient or pair perfectly with chocolate.
We will taste chocolates from different origins and cacao percentages before finding the perfect pairing partners for our three cocktail recipes.
Bean & Goose Pop-up weekend
Join Karen and Natalie at their workshop in Gorey, Wexford for their pop-up chocolate weekend Friday March 22nd - Sunday March 24th
The Art of Tempering Chocolate
Learn how to hand-temper chocolate on marble slabs, an old but beautiful chocolate-making technique. Tempering chocolate creates a smooth, shiny, delicious chocolate bar with a perfect snap and brings out the best flavour from the chocolate.
Chocolate Workshop Tour & Experience
Every Tuesday Bean and Goose open up their chocolate workshop for you to see how they make chocolate & create your own bar of chocolate to take home
Mother's Day Afternoon Tea
Enjoy a sumptuous menu designed by the celebrated Climate Conscious Chef Ali Honour, featuring the finest locally sourced, organic, and sustainably produced ingredients.
Smokin' Soul - The 1 Day’er
Begin your journey to becoming the king of the grill at Smokin’ Soul, live and interactive 1 Day’er BBQ and live fire masterclass with Pat Conway and Jim O’Brien from Smokin’ Soul.
St Brigid’s Day at Johnstown Castle
Step into the enchanting world of ancient Irish traditions with Lorraine O’Dwyer of Gallivanting Tours. Immerse yourself in the magic of St. Brigid’s Day with Lorraine.
Imbolg Online Lecture and Stories
Join Lorraine O’Dwyer from Gallivanting.ie, broadcasting live from her kitchen on a deep dive into the Imbolg festival.
Bean and Goose Chocolate Weekend
Join Karen and Natalie at their workshop in Gorey, Wexford for their pop-up chocolate weekend celebrating the Tasting Club Friday 24th November - Sunday 26th November.
Wild & Medicinal, Teas & Tinctures
Lorraines’s final workshop in the series focuses on using wild plants that grow around us to treat mild complaints. She will be looking at teas and tinctures made with all things wild and wonderful. There are hangover teas, tinctures to mend a broken heart, and herbal brews to ease an overstuffed Christmas Day tummy.
Beeswax Firelighters & Food Wraps
Join Lorraine for her workshop on beeswax. By blending beeswax with an assortment of waste products and foraged items like pine cones and dried leaves you will make a collection of cute firelighters that are also far better for the environment than standard firelighters. They are also pretty enough to display, you might even decide against burning them
Sloe Gin & Crab Apple Whiskey
Join Lorraine in her kitchen as you learn how to infuse any alcohol with wild botanicals and take home your own Sloe Gin and crab apple whiskey.
Hedgerow Kitchen - Hawthorn Chutney
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie, for an afternoon of making some treats that are healthy, natural and utterly delicious. Throughout the year the hedgerows and woodlands of Ireland are full of delicious foods to harvest and use in a range of recipes.
Hedgerow Kitchen - Elderberry & Cinnamon Syrup
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie, for an afternoon of making some treats that are healthy, natural and utterly delicious. Throughout the year the hedgerows and woodlands of Ireland are full of delicious foods to harvest and use in a range of recipes.
Halloween Chocolate Weekend
Join Karen and Natalie at their workshop in Gorey, Wexford for there 1st Halloween Chocolate Weekend Friday 27th October - Monday 30th October.
They will be running chocolate bar making workshops 3 times a day from Saturday 28th October - Monday 30th October.
Sloe Gin & Crab Apple Whiskey
Join Lorraine in her kitchen as you learn how to infuse any alcohol with wild botanicals and take home your own Sloe Gin and crab apple whiskey.
The Hedgerow Kitchen Series, The Winter Pantry
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie for The Hedgerow Kitchen series is designed to equip you with the knowledge, experience and confidence to begin working with wild ingredients. A perfect series that will allow you the opportunity to build up your own winter pantry with organic, healthy and homemade items from soap to ketchup!
Foraging & Folklore Tours of Courtown Woods
Join Lorraine from Gallivanting.ie on a tour of Courtown woods. This is a tour like no other! It is more akin to a rambling workshop as you discover a whole new world under the leafy canopy of Courtown Woods.