
MAYO COMMON CABBAGE
HOMECOMING
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Living heritage
A socially engaged arts project (2021) led by artist Niamh Gibbons and grower James Morley ( Morley's Garden Centre ), Glasraà Organic Farm and and local Ballinrobe ,Co.Mayo community. This project uses local heritage foods to connect people and place. Celebrating a homecoming of the Mayo Common Cabbage, our heritage is honoured and new generations and communities connected.Â
Celebrating the history of the Mayo Common Cabbage , a project growing from a heritage seed. The heritage cabbage plant is currently being reestablished into its place of origin. The project is developing through continuous conversation with the local community on memories of the cabbage ,eating, cooking and growing. The Mayo Common Cabbage has a long standing history of sustaining many people and homes as well as being a prize winning cabbage.
Storytelling through food, looking to our history to find solutions to our current food security and biodiversity crisis.Â
The cabbage plant has a lot to teach us about sustainable futures.
This Irish table vegetable has a global history and is a living heritage food that continues to connect people and place.Â
There are many interwoven stories all connecting back to the Mayo Common Cabbage . A valuable oral history collected through this project is shared with the intergenerational community.
Relationships that began, families , humans that survived and even came into being, thanks to a cabbage! We think it's due for some discussion and celebration.


CABBAGE HOMECOMING
This project uses local heritage foods to connect people and place. Celebrating a homecoming of the Mayo Common Cabbage, our heritage is honoured and new generations and communities connected.
