Black field farm

  There is a lot of debate lately on the question does farming effect the environment the short answer is yes almost everything we do today has some effect on the environment but the long answer can be a lot more complicated than that. Some people would suggest cutting the national herd or rewilding the […]

  Last year I wrote an article on living in rural Ireland or I should say rural Ireland dying A year on I thought I would give my perspective on what I think has changed over the past year. There does seem to be some ideas coming down the tracks. There is at least talks […]

  What was common sense It was something that used to be around quite a bit before the age of the internet. I am old enough to remember the late 80s and 1990s when there was no such thing as the internet. A time when people could only communicate with each other through by means […]

  I have not got around to writing a post in a few weeks as there has been a lot of stuff going on at home with work and family and sometimes life gets in the way of routine. One thing I did want to write about with a while was brexit as I know […]

  Things to do in Kerry Ireland well I have lived here all my life and the only thing I dislike about the place is the weather. Kerry gets the highest levels of rainfall in the country manly due to the fact that most of the weather blows in from the Atlantic ocean and we […]

  If your are looking to get free bitcoin then it the good news is it is possibly and a lot easier than your might think all your need to do is download a free web browser which is based on google chrome and use it to surf the internet. It is 100% legit and […]

  I recently carried some Honda ATV repair I have some experience with working with motorcycles and quads over the years anyway but even without this experience they are easy enough to work on anyway. As I was doing this I thought why not write about my little project and it might help someone else […]

  The mythology of the Irish fairies is or at least was very much part of rural Ireland. Today most people would laugh if you mentioned fairies and many would imagine tiny winged creatures from a Disney cartoon or childs story book. The truth behind the fairies in Ireland is based on much darker stories […]

  My Mitsubishi outlander hybrid review. If you are thinking of going electric on the farm and ditching the old diesel then this article might be of some use. I am driving an outlander PHEV with just over two years now and think I have tested it out fairly well in that time. I was […]

  Fly tipping seems to be getting worse in rural areas in recent years and for the landowners that owns the land it can lead to stress as well as the financial cost of cleaning it up. In a way I can understand why some people would do it as there are some people out […]

  How is my blog ? What a strange thing to write about but its been just one year now since I started this website. It has been slow progress in a very strange year. 2020 will be one year that most people around the world will remember for a long time. It started with […]

  A lot of people are looking for the best black Friday deals of 2020 right now and this year is expected to break all records for online sales not least because of the covid lock down sales around the world. There would be too many things to list as practically everything and anything seems […]

  This is the story about My little kerry bog ponies It is a tribute in a way to one of Ireland rarest and underestimated ponies as you might have seen under the animals tab we keep and sometimes breed Kerry bog ponies. Not for the gain of profit as many people see them as […]

    Here are just some ways on how to make money from land, I have often heard it said that if you want to make a small fortune from farming then start out with a big fortune. As funny as that sounds it has some element of truth to it as it is easier […]

  The clocks changed again on Sunday morning 25th of October 2020 and hopefully it will answer the question of when does daylight savings end forever. I was hoping that the clocks might not be put back at all this winter like many had campaigned for but alas they have and I woke up not […]

  My computer is broken, that’s one of the main reasons that I haven’t written anything into this blog in the last few weeks. The pixels started to go dead along the screen and then it just stopped charging and I was waiting almost a week to order a new one online. I also started […]

  I’d like to just add my thoughts on the TB testing of cattle although I already covered a lot on it here I feel the latest change in tactics by the department seems to be a bit of a cop out. We are testing cattle for over 60 years and still have not eradicated […]

  This week I am delighted to have a guest writer Peter Curran who has some ideas around travel and tourism business ideas and in general thinking outside of the box as to how we operate our farms His idea was to advocate for funding in Brussels to be sought for farmers for the promotion […]

    There are only four native Irish cattle breeds’ that I am aware of these cattle have been here for hundreds and in some cases maybe thousands of years. It is really only in the last seventy or eighty years that breeds’ from other countries have started to be imported and breed here in […]

  This week I had a guest writer write about small scale farming for profit. Just some ideas of things that could be with a very small amount of space and to show you don’t necessarily need land to produce food. If you have the time and interest to learn there are many ways to […]