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Ireland’s Food Revolution Writes About Farm Visit

I cook Zwartbles lamb stew for Libby Page from Irish Food Revolution Read about her visit Ireland’s Food Revolution visits Zwartbles sheep

Southern Ireland Zwartbles Association 2014 AGM

Please mark your diary for Saturday 6th December 2014 At The Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore at 6pm for the ZSA Southern Ireland Zwartbles Sheep Association AGM. Please support our local group and we welcome new members and fresh ideas. I look forward to seeing you...

A Wonderful Quote to Farm By: Aldo Leopold

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” Aldo Leopold

Photography Workshops Held on the Farm

I am hold only 2 photography workshops this year here on the farm. You can be a beginner like this lamb, not knowing how your camera works. More advanced and would like help with composition or how to approach animals to photograph them up close when they are relaxed....

How a Shepherd Approaches Sheep

The cat shepherd, Bodacious aka Mr. B, has kindly demonstrated how you approach sheep without disturbing them by using body language. We have chosen sheep that were lying down as this way you can see they are the same sheep with little change in them as we walk around...

The Year of the Horse: Happy Chinese New Year

It is now the beginning of the Chinese New Year; the year of the Green Wooden Horse. What better way to start this new year than with images of the birth of a new horse into this world. To celebrate the year to come I have decided to share with you the images I took...

Don’t Forget the Rams

This is the time of year that as a shepherd your feeding pregnant ewes, thinking about getting ready for the long sleepless nights and rush of lambing. The poor rams often get forgotten about, their work has been done and all or most of your ewes are carrying their...

Why Alpaca? To Help Protect Sheep from Dog Attack!

Dogs straying into sheep fields can do untold harm and stress to sheep. We have had a series of incidents over the years of dogs killing sheep in the area which I farm. Only last year within a 2 mile radius of our farm 3 different flocks had sheep killed by...

Sunrise on January 14 2014

Mackerel skies in a red dawn, purple mountains over blue valleys, frosted fields sparkling rubies at dawns reflection. How to catch the mackerel in the sky? First you must get the gossamer drawn from dragons, then spin this into a net of dreams. Gossamer –...

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