THE FUTURE

A new place for living,
a smallholding, a home for sharing, and a workshop & GARDEN FOR DREAMING IN.

Where chefs, gardeners, farmers, producers, artists, writers, and other creatives can escape, hide, breathe, energise, have time to dream, and, most importantly, grow, cook, and eat.

It will be an edible forest of old and new Irish flavours where you never know who you might meet, what you might taste, or what might happen, adding an element of excitement to your stay.

Fat Tomato will celebrate Irish artisanal craft but also have a nod to Anthony’s love of travel through its landscape design and architecture.

The Plan

Anthony has been working on his dream home for years, researching, stretching, and picking up ideas, garden seeds and beautiful craft pieces on his travels.

As they say, Good Things Take Time.

Anthony started his edible garden at the back of his parent's home in 2016 with a bigger plan to begin again. He has always wanted to create a space that celebrates his love for food, drink, and travel and share it with his eclectic mix of old and new friends, family, colleagues, and anyone who crosses his path in the future.

Plans are well underway looking for the new piece of land in the southeast that is full of character to be the new home of Fat Tomato.

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We love playing around with old and new Irish flavours, taking inspiration from our edible garden and @anthonyotoole_'s collection of food and cookery books - he has over 2000 in his collection. Yes, he has a problem 🤣 After eight harvests, our col
We often get asked about our rainbow eggs. The typical brown and white eggs you find in stores are usually laid by hybrid hens, bred for high production rather than flavour. Our nutrient-dense eggs come in a variety of colours and sizes, laid by a mi
We grow three varieties of crabapples in our garden: the common European crabapple, which grows in hedgerows across Ireland; the beautiful Laura, known for its red-fleshed fruit; and the Butterball crabapple, with its yellow-orange skin and red flush
At Fat Tomato, our homemade compost is the lifeblood of our garden. We use a six-bay composting system, where we layer green materials (such as grass clippings, kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, and fresh plant trimmings) with brown materials (like fa
Introducing our Blackcurrant Butter. Wexford is famous for its soft fruit, especially strawberries. But for @anthonyotoole_, it’s all about the blackcurrants. These little gems are tangy and bursting with flavour. The fertile soil and the mil
🛒My online store is ready to be raided 🛍️ GOOD THINGS TAKE TIME. That’s what I kept saying to myself when I took on the task of sowing my edible garden 8 years ago to showcase old and new Irish flavours 🍑🍅🍐🥕🥔 What began in 2016 with a
It's about time! @anthonyotoole_'s edible garden is about to ripen. What began in 2016 with a polytunnel, a ‘handful’ of organic seeds, a lively compost heap, and a few feathered friends, Anthony’s edible garden has blossomed into
It's about time! @anthonyotoole_'s edible garden is about to ripen. What began in 2016 with a polytunnel, a ‘handful’ of organic seeds, a lively compost heap, and a few feathered friends, Anthony’s edible garden has blossomed into
It's about time! @anthonyotoole_'s edible garden is about to ripen. What began in 2016 with a polytunnel, a ‘handful’ of organic seeds, a lively compost heap, and a few feathered friends, Anthony’s edible garden has blossomed into
Driven by curiosity, biodiversity, and flavour, Fat Tomato is an edible garden, a kitchen pantry, a shop, and, later, a place for sharing. Perched on the picturesque Carrig Rua Hill in North Wexford, @anthonyotoole_’s edible garden is home to