Laois company wins National Organic Award

Bord Bia has revealed the winners of the National Organic Awards, which included the Laois/Offaly company Garryhinch Mushrooms.

The National Organic Awards celebrate the achievements and high standards of the increasing number of organic growers, producers, and manufacturers in the country.

The 2024 National Organic Awards took place on Thursday, October 17 in the Bord Bia Global Hub in Dublin.

The event aims to recognise developments within the organic sector across seven key categories, judged by a panel of experts.

The winners will be announced at an award ceremony that celebrates the best of organic food from Ireland. Judging will take place at the National Organic Food Fair in Merrion Square on Sunday, August 31.

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Overall, there are seven awards, including the ‘New & Innovative Award,’ which went to Garryhinch Wood Exotic Mushrooms from Laois/Offaly.

Garryhinch Wood Exotic is a long-standing family run farm by Joe & Dolores Gorman. Their organic farm is located on the banks of the river Barrow on the borders of counties Laois and Offaly.

They have been in mushroom farming for over 30 years supplying appetising and nutritious mushrooms for the retail sector, food services sector and farmers markets all across Ireland.

Presently, they grow a wide range of wild exotic organic mushrooms which are cultivated on wooden blocks made from trees sourced from sustainable managed forests.

These tasty mushrooms have a high nutritional value, and have also amazing benefits like lowering cholesterol, helps to fight infection and builds the immune system.