Dig Your Dinner
As the number of vegetable farmers in the country continues to decline, some, desperate to hold onto their businesses, are coming up with innovative ways to both make their farms viable, and encourage people to actively participate in keeping them going. During the summer Darragh Mc Cullough went to Donegal to meet one farmer who has managed to get people to pay to come to his farm to pick their own veg.
Lowline Cattle
On their 20 acre farm in Kerry, John and Lucy Walsh breed Australian Lowline cattle. The breed, they began to rear in Ireland in 2019 through embryo transfer, is renowned for its performance, functionality, high fertility, calving ease, feed efficiency and breeding longevity. These are just some of the advantages of using Lowline bulls in dairy or beef herds.
Forestry
Trees – more than just lovely to look at, they also play an important part in trapping carbon. Prompted by fears over climate change and actions an individual can take, journalist and writer Catherine Cleary decided to buy a plot of land in Roscommon to plant a native forest. She now has 27 acres planted with 24,000 trees.
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