Leviathan, a new Irish nine-part travel and cooking series, celebrating the country’s vibrant creative culture, showcasing the stories of wild food foragers, artisan makers, organic farmers, and musicians is launching this Spring. We are proud to announce that the first episode will be highlighting Woodcock Smokery.

We are beyond excited to kick off 2025 with a mention in TheTaste.ie’s “10 Best Meals of 2024”! A huge thank you to Sarah Clayton-Lea for including us in this incredible roundup. It is such an honour to be recognised alongside so many fantastic food experiences.

Sally chats to Sharon Noonan about her remarkable journey of only smoking wish fish over the last 44 years. In this conversation, Sally reveals her inspiring journey, her passion for preserving heritage skills, and the secrets behind her exceptional creations.

A new short film that celebrates West Cork food artisan, Sally Ferns Barnes of Woodcock Smokery, is also changing people’s minds about what we eat, writes Kate Ryan.

Sally Barnes picked up the prestigious “Movers and Shakers’ award at this year's Georgina Campbell’s Irish Food and Hospitality Awards.

Busy-bee Anthony O’Toole writes about how he’s getting together with Sally Barnes to host a Producer x Chef event series in West Cork.

Sally Barnes was never great at biting her tongue, and she certainly didn’t hold back in the latest episode of the GIY Food Matters podcast.

This is a brilliant piece by Fintan O’Toole in The Irish Times highlighting the scandalous situation that has been allowed to happen to Ireland’s waterways.

In advance of International Women's Day, Caroline Hennessy interviewed Sally for the Irish Examiner about the future in educating the next generation of artisans at her new fish school.

Be.Polar Studios, based in Turin, Italy, has produced a short documentary on Sally Barnes called “The Keep,” to be released in 2025.

Part of the Euro-Toques Ireland Producers Spotlight Series, TheTaste.ie interviewed Sally about 40 years of smoking wild fish in West Cork.

The beautiful Matthew Kronsberg wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal on the World’s Best Food Tours, which lists Sally Barnes' workshops and courses.

Cover girl! Sally Barnes made the front cover of Irish Farmers Journal, Irish Country Living magazine.

Local food writer Kate Ryan wrote a stellar piece for the BBC Travel on “The last of Ireland’s rare wild salmon.”