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Ireland’s Food Revolution Writes About Farm Visit

On 26/05/2016 By admin

I cook Zwartbles lamb stew

for Libby Page from Irish Food Revolution

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Ireland’s Food Revolution visits Zwartbles sheep

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Champion & Reserved Champion Clonmel 2014

Southern Ireland Zwartbles Association 2014 AGM

On 29/11/2014 By admin

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 [...]

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Zwartbles Lambs come out our orchard gate

A Wonderful Quote to Farm By: Aldo Leopold

On 15/10/2014 By admin

 

“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

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Trying to look through the view finder

Photography Workshops Held on the Farm

On 05/05/2014 By admin

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 [...]

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A greeting between lamb & Bodacious

How a Shepherd Approaches Sheep

On 05/05/2014 By admin

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 and up close to [...]

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Mare & Foal still attached but they greet each other nickering

The Year of the Horse: Happy Chinese New Year

On 01/02/2014 By admin

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 [...]

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"Don't Forget About the Rams" the Cat Shepherd's Instructions

Don’t Forget the Rams

On 29/01/2014 By admin

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 lambs for [...]

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Two Boys Arriving at the Farm

Why Alpaca? To Help Protect Sheep from Dog Attack!

On 16/01/2014 By admin

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 “sweet harmless” [...]

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Dawns flaming mackerel skies: Red Sky in Morning Shepherds Take Warning

Sunrise on January 14 2014

On 14/01/2014 By admin

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 – Dragons – Dreams: A dawn like [...]

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Ringing in the New Year 2014

A New Year & A New Blogging Determination

On 06/01/2014 By admin

This is the beginning of a New Year so I am determined to write more blog posts.

I have had wonderful encouragement from many different quarters, from farmers new to computers, other Zwartbles breeders, people living in cities as near by as Kilkenny city and as far a field as New [...]

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