Join us in Cloughjordan for a permaculture crash course, a truly unique experience with Formidable Vegetable frontman Charlie Mgee and acclaimed permaculture illustrator & educator Brenna Quinlan, all the way from Australia.
Armed with a ukulele, pencils, paintbrushes, and a whole lot of creativity, Charlie Mgee and Brenna Quinlan make regenerative design accessible, engaging, and seriously fun. And it’s about much more than just gardening!
The permaculture crash course is perfect for families, small groups, or curious individuals. Whether you’re completely new to permaculture or already passionate about it, you’ll leave feeling energised and empowered to take meaningful action—starting right where you are.
Expect a day of creativity, learning, and upbeat eco-funk—designed to inspire young people, families, and anyone curious about living more regeneratively.
| 📧 | Contact: info@cultivate.ie |
| 📍 | Location: Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co. Tipperary |
| ⌚ | Time: 1:30PM – 4:30PM |
| 🎟️ | Tickets: €25 per adult – €35 (1 adult and up to 2 under 18s) Under 10s free – (All under 18s must be accompanied by an adult) |
iLLUSTRATOR AND EDUCATOR
Brenna Quinlan is an illustrator and educator who strives to make the world a better place through her art and her actions. For four years she lived a low-impact life at permaculture demonstration site, Melliodora in Hepburn Springs where she spent her days growing food, milking goats, building soil, engaging with community and regenerating the land around them.
Brenna’s illustrations have reached far and wide in recent years to inspire people towards regenerative living and care for the Earth.
Permaculture Musician
Armed with a ukulele and a passion for creatively crushing the polycrisis through positive hands-in-the-dirt action, Formidable Vegetable’s Charlie Mgee has an inspiring and thought-provoking take on the principles of permaculture and how to apply them to your work, life and community.
Early evening concert from the internationally acclaimed Formidable Vegetable. Expect ukulele-fuelled permaculture anthems, unstoppable grooves.
Formidable Vegetable is a band described as “Permaculture funk-swing for a changing world”. They are known for blending electro music, jazz, and swing with a focus on permaculture and sustainability. This is the only Irish show in their European tour and gigs at festivals including Glastonbury.
This isn’t just a gig—it’s a celebration of community, creativity, and the kind of future we all want to grow.
| 📧 | Contact: info@cultivate.ie |
| 📍 | Location: Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co. Tipperary |
| ⌚ | Time: 7:30PM – 11:00PM |
| 🎟️ | Tickets: €15 (Under 15s Free of Charge) |
Formidable Vegetable are a fresh harvest of hope in a wild and overgrown world.
Whether it’s performing at Glastonbury, delivering TEDx talks or shaking things up at the United Nations the band, hailing from Western Australia have something special and unique that the whole village will dig.
Whether equipped with a wheelbarrow load of tasty, dancefloor-igniting electro beets or stripped back to their live instrumentation (consisting of brass, strings and a ukulele), FoVeg plant seeds of inspiration at every festival, fair and community garden they perform at. Having toured to over 20 countries and with seven records under their belt, the band is paving the way for an entirely new kind of creative action for composting the problems of the world and growing abundant, community-scale solutions in their place.
