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Since our founding, Hinterland has focused on reconnecting people with food, farming, and one another, through acts of growing, sharing, learning, and imagining. From donating farm produce to local community groups, to mapping Galway’s food web, to hosting gatherings, our work lives at the intersection of land, care, and collective resilience

SHORT FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN TOOLKIT

This toolkit was created with the support of the Department of Agriculture, Food & Marine, to help producers, community groups, and food actors build shorter, fairer, and more resilient supply chains.
It offers practical steps, templates, and examples for connecting in ways that support livelihoods, nourish communities, and protect the environment.

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MAPPING PROJECT

Mapping Galway's Food System for spatial mapping and public engagement.

Supporting planning, policy, and education around local food resilience.

This is an ongoing project and we hope to launch phase one in September 2025.

Collaboartion with Bothand Group

Mapping Report #1

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES

Hinterland’s workshops and creative gatherings bring our core values to life - solidarity, creativity, land connection, and collective care.
Through participatory experiences that centre food, farming, and community.

Our approach is shaped by collaboration, working hand-in-hand with growers, artists, farmers, migrants, elders, youth, and local partners to co-create programming that is responsive and grounded in justice.

Seasonal workshops

Farm Feasts

Land connection

Artful engagements that archive local food knowledge

Public installations and mapping projects that animate Galway’s food future

Our work is a contribution to a more inclusive, resilient, and regenerative food system, one rooted in care, culture, and connection.

URBAN ROOFTOP GARDEN

The Rooftop Garden Project is
rooted in agroecological principles, this pilot project is located in one of Galway’s most traffic-congested urban districts, offering not just visual and ecological relief, but a model for sustainable city living.
We collaborated with Galway City Partnership & City Bin so that all compost used for the garden comes from the city’s municipal brown bin collections.

Designed as both a climate intervention and a community resource, the rooftop garden will enhance biodiversity and grow food, while also creating opportunities for shared learning and skills development.

The space will serve as a learning hub, showcasing the possibilities of circular, regenerative approaches to food and land use in the heart of the city.

FOOD ASSEMBLY

The Food Assembly is where food, culture, creativity, and policy meet. Anchored by Hinterland, it’s an engine for connection, co-creation, and systemic change.

Food Assembly aims to bring together growers, makers, eaters, researchers, and policymakers. Together, we explore what a just, sustainable, and regenerative food system could look like, locally and beyond.

At its heart, it is designed not only to celebrate community food knowledge but to generate grounded insights that inform better food policy.

Through participatory events, dialogue sessions, and real-time learning from lived experience, the project creates a platform to engage with decision-makers in meaningful, ongoing ways.

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