Richard Corrigan is back for the second instalment of Corrigan’s City Farm. Richard is determined that everybody should have a slice of the good life and wants to prove that it’s possible to set up a farm on waste land in a city location and train an army of volunteers to run it.
Richard and his merry band of volunteers are getting back to basics, growing fresh, seasonal food while fighting everything from drought to greenflies.
Can our inner city volunteers rise to the challenge and transform a plot of derelict wasteland into a lush and fertile smallholding? Can Richard start a national allotment revolution?
Programme 7
Seven months ago Richard Corrigan took two derelict plots in Cork City and with the help of 24 volunteers set about transforming the sites into productive City Farms.
Now he wants to take the experiment further and show everyone how they can eat well without spending a fortune, so that next year even more people are inspired to grow their own food.
This week on Corrigan’s City Farm, Richard shows us how to haggle for value, there’s a bust-up in the allotment and we investigate how supermarkets are putting Irish vegetable growers out of business.