The potato is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. More than a billion people worldwide eat potato, and global total crop production exceeds 300 million metric tons! Here in Ireland we import over 70,000 tons each year, with […]
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Cork senior football star Melissa Duggan recently had the proud honour of receiving All-Star and Munster Ladies Football of the Year awards following a plethora of outstanding displays for the senior inter-county team and her beloved club team the Dohenys. The West Cork football heroine also captained the Munster senior […]
“And now we welcome the New Year, full of things that have never been.” I no longer make New Year resolutions, but I deliberately set aside time to reflect on the year gone by and set intentions for the coming year. I am incredibly grateful to have welcomed in this […]
They say that time speeds up as you get older, and I for one can attest that it is speeding up for me. Where did the last decade go? In fact, where did the last 20 years go? It’s a funny feeling to look back to the pre-Boom/Bust/Brexit days as […]
I’ve always had ‘good’ skin, and have been very grateful for that. But I know that acne and other irritated skin conditions cause a lot of distress and can be very difficult to deal with, both for young people and for adults. We published three articles on acne on our […]
There has been plenty of walking the farm lately. First up was a bit of a tree planting operation. Since Christmas, around 600 different native trees have been planted around the farm. A hedge consisting of hawthorn and Rowan was put in as a shelterbelt, which will take some minding, […]