The Reluctant Farmer | Special Care Unit Part of my series for Irish Country Living ‘You’ll have to stay behind’ came the words I had been expecting. A late evening delivery of a very tiny cria […]
The Reluctant Farmer | Special Care Unit
Category: Farming
The Reluctant Farmer | Short Back and Sides
Part of my series for Irish Country Living Well, the day finally came for our alpacas to be relieved of their much prized, much sought-after fleece. They have been panting in the paddocks, sitting in the […]
The Reluctant Farmer | New Life on The Farm
Part of my series for Irish Country Living So after a long winter and spring of minding, dosing, preening and caring, all our hard work has started to pay off and the maternity ward has officially […]
A Week of Neglectful Parenting
Some weeks you’re winning and others you are just trying to survive. This past week was very much a survival one. It should have been a winning week, I was off Monday and Tuesday…so that […]
The Reluctant Farmer| Give Me Five
My latest piece for The Farmers Journal. It is almost a given, a sort of farming version of Murphy’s Law, that as soon as I put something in the oven, the chief farmer will appear at […]
The Reluctant Farmer
Part Two of my Irish Country Living series. Until last summer I was what you might call a keen observer of our farm life. I took great interest in the stories our children came in with, […]
Welcome To Hushabye Farm| The Farmers Journal
Just before Christmas I was asked if I would like to come on board with the online publication of the Irish Country Living section of The Farmers Journal as a contributor. They asked me to write […]