Six Tipperary food producers will be joining Bord Bia Bloom exciting line-up

 Bord Bia Bloom has announced that six food producers from Tipperary will be joining this year’s exciting event line-up.

With just three weeks to go until the festival of flowers, food and fun returns to its home in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, organisers are encouraging visitors to plan their visit and enjoy a great day out this summer.

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Visitors to Bloom can meet over100 of Ireland’s top food and craft drink producers at the Food Village and Bloom Inn, including these Tipperary businesses -

Cooleeney Cheese Farm from Thurles, a family farm producing top quality milk from pedigree Friesian herd for the production of award winning artisan cheeses.

Cahir-based Oakpark, producers of innovative, award-winning sliced bacon, gammon, pudding and sous vide products.

Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemaker, from Fethard, which has over 40 years’ experience in hand crafting Irish Farmhouse Cheese, known for its Cashel Blue Cheese.

Clonmel‘s Rivesci, a multi-award-winning condiment maker of chilli oils and more

Also based in Clonmel, Blanco Niño, which produces world-class, traditionally made tortillas and tortilla chips

Clonmel-based O’Donnells Crisps, which crafts hand-cooked crisps from the potatoes grown on Seskin Farm, Tipperary.

Attendees can also enjoy delicious food from plenty of food trucks, the BBQ Bliss area or Bloom’s four on-site restaurants: The Garden View Restaurant, Bistro Bloom, Country Crest Restaurant and The Seafood Terrace. New for this year is ‘A Taste of Bloom, curated by Neven’ a three-course dining experience celebrating quality Irish produce designed exclusively by chef Neven Maguire for Bloom.

The festival expects to welcome over 100,000 visitors across its 70-acre site, which will play host to 20 spectacular new show gardens at the centre of the experience.

Green-fingered visitors can also enjoy the perfectly formed petite Postcard Gardens supported by Tirlán CountryLife, breathtaking plants in the Nursery Village and The Plant Emporium, live demonstrations and interactive workshops including floral crown making in the Botanical Hub, and exhibitions of Botanical and Floral Art and AOIFA’s (Association of Irish Floral Artists) Floral Art Competition.

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Laura Douglas, Head of Bloom and Brand Partnerships, Bord Bia said, “Bloom is a distinctive festival that combines gardening, culinary excellence, sustainable living, and family fun in picturesque natural settings. With so much on offer, we encourage our ticketholders to plan their visit carefully to ensure an unforgettable experience at Bloom this year. To facilitate this, we have added daily stage schedules, an interactive site map, and travel tips on our website. We appreciate the support of our partners, sponsors, and events team in realising our vision for this year's festival programme. We look forward to witnessing it come to fruition in a few weeks and welcoming new visitors to Bloom 2025”