About Us

“it is not about becoming, it is about becoming-with.”

Donna Haraway

Savage Craic is a living partnership between llewyn máire (they/siad), Dr. Lisa Newman (she/they), Irish soil and seed workers, herbalists, artists, makers, and an eclectic family of plantcestors, microbial mates, and fungikin— fermenting lifeways in the Irish Free State since 2015.

We are an anarcho queer venture that engages in collective care and land-based prefigurative skill share through workshops, events, radical remedies and seasonal ferments.

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Savage Craic is in the process of becoming a not-for-profit social enterprise and is seeking land to steward towards the development of a queer sanctuary that will include a generative residency, creative studio, radical food forest, and community apothecary kitchen.

Fermentation transforms and inspires, making for delicious ways to engage with our food, the land, and each other. These relationships speak to an ancient mutualism that started when we first shared breath with our plantcestors. 

This venture is motivated by our love for gathering together and breaking bread, making art, sharing stories, cultivating resilience, and building care networks.  

We are each microbial stewards, eco-celebrants, agents of community care, spiraling ever forward in this dance of life, our goal is to do so with ever growing purpose, to create positive relationships, rewild our lifeways and aid in the cultivation of decolonial futures for us all. 

When we first arrived in Éire, we breaking bread with new friends when a comrade from Ennis referred to everything we were sharing as being some “savage craic”, which felt like an induction to something very old, a birthing of something new — and a welcome home.

llewyn máire