SUSTAINABILITY
Carraig Dúlra’s bar and kitchen
Against the Grain LORRAINE COURTNEY CAUGHT UP WITH MIKE AND SUZIE CAHN FROM CARRAIG DÚLRA, A WICKLOW FARM WITH SUSTAINABILITY AT ITS VERY HEART.
54 EAR TO THE GROUND
Our world is facing huge challenges: climate change, resource scarcity, a rapidly increasing population. Meeting these challenges and addressing the complexities that surround each one will require levels of consumption and patterns of behaviour to shift dramatically. What was once seen as a radical lifestyle choice is attracting an increasing number of devotees as interest in organic food and sustainable living grows. Mike and Suzie Cahn had been thinking ahead for years. When the recession hit they put their long-term plan into action and founded Carraig Dúlra, an organic, permaculture education and research project in 2007. Now they teach a sustainable way of life to everyone who visits their farm in Wicklow. Anyone depressed by the state of farming and the apparent conflict between intensive farming and conservation should take a look at it.
