I do love watching the hens strut around the yard. We have foxes in the fields around us so we have to be careful, the hens are let out around 5pm as there’s activity around the yard with the milking parlour going, calves been fed depending on time of year and the children running around so the noise might help to keep off any predators. They go to bed themselves so it’s just a case of checking the four of [...]
Today was one of those days when memories were made, an ordinary day yet very special in its own way. Maybe it seemed all the more special because I was made more aware yesterday of the fickleness of life, of taking life day by day, of knowing that nothing about the future is certain, not even our continued existence.
I went to the Embrace Farm service yesterday, a [...]
If there is one thing that puts the fear of God in me and makes me feel as though a steel hand is squeezing my heart so I can’t breathe, it is the fear, for a split second, that every so often hits me, the fear that something might hurt, maim or even worse, kill my children. I remember when W was less than 2, I was pregnant with K and wheeling him around in a Superquinn trolley in the [...]
This is the EU Year of the Family Farm. I’ve felt for some time though that there is quite a bit of confusion over what constitutes a family farm and judging by the Teagasc conference I was at last week, I’m not the only one. What do you think it is?
What is a family farm?
To me, a family farm is one in which the farm is able to sustain and support the living expenses of the family if both are [...]
You’ve heard the line “farming isn’t a job, it’s a way of life” and many more besides but is being married to a farmer really different to being married to some other professions? What about doctors or vets or pilots or lawyers – don’t they all involve long hours too that can go way past the standard 9-5 with an hour commute? I’m not so sure that I could identify a person as a doctor or a teacher or a [...]
