Bantry Fair Trade group in support of fair trade fortnight is showing the documentary Black Gold on Thursday the 28th of Febuary in the Cinemax. Black Gold is a film by Nick and Marc Francis that highlights the plight of Ethiopian Coffee growers. The wedsite states: 'As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the...

Clouds West Cork The current exhibition in Organico Cafe is work by Anne Marie Mcinerney from Skibbereen, West Cork. Anne Maire's work has a wide range of influences, from the wild seas and wide skies of West Cork to drousy Italian vinyards. Anne Marie studied fine art in the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork and then went...

Mindfullness meditation is starting in Organico Cafe in Bantry on Monday Febuary the 18th and running for 4 weeks. The evenings will be facilitated by Marjo Osterhoff, who trained in Burma and Thailand as a Buddhist nun before moving to Ireland. She now lives and works in Adrigole where she has a Meditation Centre. The classes will involve sitting and...

Organico shop now has organic certification? Yes, it's true - shops now need to be certified by an official certification body. If we want to sell loose organic vegetables, that is. And don't want to be taken to court by the Department of Agriculture. Or don't want to sell our lovely organic veg in plastic packaging, which is the only...

This is very important -please sign this petition. If the Eu are allowed to 'harmonise' our supplements we will lose vitamins such as vitamin C for no good reason! Do you know anybody who has suffered from taking vitamins? How many people who have benefited? If you feel strongly that you and your families should be allowed to continue taking...

Update: This year (2012) we running the Letter Cafe for the West Cork Literary Festival Organico Cafe is delighted to host the Festival Club (18.00 - 21.00) Entry is free - come along and enjoy a glass of wine and a bite to eat while you enjoy some great literary company. Events scheduled include a Read Dating Game, impromptu sessions...

Jan de Vries visited Organico recently and gave 53 of our lucky customers a free consultation. Jan is one of the world's foremost natropath's and it was amazing to have him visit Bantry. His insight into health, nutrition and herbal medicine is humbling.

Our mission in Organico is quite simple - to supply quality organic food at an affordable price. Organico Bakery is part of what makes us proud to be in business - we bake with stoneground organic flour which makes our bread healthy and nutritious. We also bake extensively with spelt - our customers tell us that before they found our...

Organico Bantry was chosen by Herbal Company A. Vogel to be a 'Specialist Store', thanks to the high level of training our staff have received and the variety of herbal products we stock. We were delighted to receive this accolade and were even more delighted when they announced the Jan de Vries would be visiting us and would be giving...

If you would like to meet Jan de Vries in person, come along to Organico on the morning of Tuesday 29th of May at around 9am. From 9.30 Mr de Vries will be signing books and giving brief health consultations on how to live a healthy life. We can wholeheartedly recommend coming along to this event as Jan De Vries...