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Last week we had an amazing opportunity to visit the EU parliament.  We were there as guests of COPA-COGECA. COPA-COGECA represent farmers interests in Europe, and run a bi-annual Innovation Award for Women Farmers.  The theme this time around was “Making Waves”.  I was contacted in June by Tirlan, to see if I was OK with being nominated for the award, by ICOS.  I never really expected anything to come from it, so when I was contacted in September and told I was in the final

Hedgerows on the farm have many jobs, from a farming perspective they give shelter to livestock and provide boundaries. For nature they...

Long before we even knew we would end up here farming, we used to imagine having a pond here.  Ponds can be true hotspots for...

Hirundines are a family of songbirds who are found around the world on all the continents, even, occasionally in antartica. They well...

This year the National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC) launched a new project to monitor moth populations in Ireland.  The Farmer Moth...

In July 2022, we hosted a Biodiversity Open night, as per a previous blog. We had several different groups here setting up stands,...

3 years ago on the 20th July we hosted an open evening here on the farm. It was a Wednesday evening, and it was a lovely summer's...

This year’s wait for our sandmartins to return was rewarded on 24 th  March 2025.  This was the day we had our first few sandmartins...

As we come out of the blur of busy-ness that February and March are on a dairy farm, so also the life in the hedgerows is picking up.  We...