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When we started out 20 years ago, as we struggled to contain the weeds on our 0.25 acre plot, we had two pieces of wisdom imparted to us. Never let a weed see Sunday, a fair statement, meaning if a plant doesn’t go to seed you won’t have a million more minions to deal with in short order. The other was “Why not use a touch of Roundup?”, I love this one, because it frames the ...

It’s been another crazy week. We have so much good stuff happening on the farm. We received the first Irish organic cherries from Darragh Donnelly and they are fantastic.  We have been busy harvesting our own fresh garlic, and we have plenty more for next week, along with gorgeous lettuce, and tonnes other amazing freshly harvested farm and Irish produce, such as salad, ...

We planted our garlic bulbs back in November and we have just started harvesting our very first fresh garlic bulbs with stems. They are beautiful, Emmanuel and his team, Enda and Daire, are harvesting it with such care, it is a true celebration of local food.

It is a seasonal star and will not be round for long, we have one full tunnel of it, we don’t grow garli...

It’s been a wonderful week on the farm; the soil is dry and that makes planning and getting things done so much easier. Planning around the weather makes growing 20 crops on a commercial scale tricky.

So, to get the last few weeks of dry weather has been a Godsend. Now mind you it has been cold, the wind has been biting, but I am informed that this may be changing t...