Tag Archives: irish country living
The #Farmerettes Tweet Up
It was a dark, blustery and very unsummerlike day when I arrived at Cillin Hill mart for our #farmerettes tweet up. Organised some 2 months ago, the idea came from a couple of tweets and as always with determined and enthusiastic women, the date and venue was decided as the number of female farmers on twitter who wished to [...]
#Farmerettes Tweet Up
I was interviewed some time ago for the Irish Examiner and it was featured this week in the Farming Supplement – with me even being shown on the masthead of the front page with Alex Ferguson below!!
The article was mainly about my blog, why I blog, why farmers should blog and tweet, about our #farmerettes tweet up which is [...]
Women in Agriculture Conference
I went to the Women and ?Agriculture conference in Kilkenny today which was organised by Mairead Lavery and the team at Irish Country Living (of the Irish Farmers Journal). ?When I walked in, the first stand I saw was that of ‘magic’ window washing equipment and I thought ‘oh no’ – are they going to be pigeon holing us like that! Other stands included lovely cake sellers, hat sellers, IFA, FRS, charities etc. Many ladies got free head [...]
Irish Farmerette in the Irish Country Living
My blog received a little mention in this week’s Irish Country Living (Farmers Journal) following an interview I did with Mary Phelan when we met at the recent Women in Business conference. ?If you have come to this blog as a result of reading about it in the ICL, I’d love it you would say ‘hello’ especially if you have a blog.