Fiona Delaney

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Bites and Bytes Podcast · Food, Technology, and the Stories We Tell with Fiona Delaney · 7 Jan 2026 podcast

It's a beautiful, it's like a mathematical puzzle, how you get all the spokes in.

My uncle showed me once when I was young, the one who taught me how to grow spuds.

And he said he knew the secret.

Show me.

And I was small.

Well, I'm pretty sure he didn't know the secret anymore.

Anyway, when I think about them and what they did, you know, potatoes from the soil, selling eggs, you know, blah, blah, feeding their large family, educating them, getting them out in the world, being part of the community, all that kind of thing.

Now, like there wasn't, there weren't supermarkets.

There weren't just in time, this, that and whatever, which generates so much waste.

It facilitates agricultural monoculturism, shall we say.

A majority of Irish farming is livestock farming, it's grass-based.

There's very, very little tillage here anymore.

There's some horticulture, mostly north of Dublin, the horticultural area, feeding the city, but also for export.

And we overproduce for the size of our nation by about 600% on beans.

Wow.

For export.

yeah for export for money so yeah and the industry is just built that way so it's beef dairy sheep lots of sheep pigs pigs and sheds chickens and sheds you know all that stuff so let's say you know the the situation in ukraine explodes and you know you know threatens the um single marketplace in europe for example we will be so we will be so hard-pressed to feed ourselves

And what we make, we make really well.

And everybody loves Irish butter and cheese and milk.

And we do all that.

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