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Native Vegetables and Fruits of Ireland?

  • 20-06-2013 7:30pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33


    I am looking for a list of vegetables, fruits, herbs, sea vegetables that grow in Ireland, it's for an illustrated collection I am doing. Does anyone have a concise list, native food and food grown here over several years thats been part of our ancestors and ours diet?

    Thank you :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Tough one that. Hard to say when many vegetable were introduced to Ireland. For example Wild Carrot is a native plant but who cultivated it to the common veg we now know and when were they grown in Ireland. The potato is an iconic Irish veg but is not really native. All cabbages are culivars so are they native. Wild raspberry is found throughout Ireland but is the garden plant native? Not much help I know but it's a huge subject. Should lead to plenty of discssin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    Have you contacted Irish Seed Savers?
    They have various native collections


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Sea Samphire, Dulse and Carrageen would likely have been in paleo diets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    Wild Strawberry's. Had some the other day - delicious.


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