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This Farming Life


Castlefarm Potatoes
Author: Jenny Young
May was a great month for growth at Castlefarm. The combination of heat and rain was perfect for grass and clover growth. The cow paddocks are full of lush grass and the cows are producing great milk, high in butterfat and protein.
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Castlefarm Chicken
Author: Jenny Young
Yay December, our quietest month on the farm. We have dried off the cows and the whole farm is in winter holiday mode. No milking for six weeks. The main job each day on the farm is feeding silage and straw bedding. It’s time to catch up on work and prepare a little for the spring. This month we will be fixing fences and clearing calving sheds for the spring.
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Jenny Young in CastleFarm Shop
Author: Jenny Young
What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce
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Tomatoes
Author: Jenny Young
At Castlefarm the breeding season has finally ended. The Aberdeen Angus bulls that were brought onto the farm to ‘clean up’ after ai have been sold. We have cut our second cut of pit silage and have cut and wrapped 130 bales for the winter. Half of our spring born heifer calves have been farmed out to another organic farmer, who will rear them under organic standards for the next year. We are constantly under pressure for grass, hence the need to have our calves contract reared.
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Castlefarm Cattle
Author: Jenny Young
At Castlefarm the breeding season has begun. This month we begin 6 weeks of intensive AI before the Angus bull arrives to join the herd.
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Castlefarm Allotments
Author: Jenny Young
What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce
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Ethiopian Farming
Author: Jenny Young
What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce. This month Jenny gives us food for thought by comparing subsistence agriculture in Ethiopia with their own high tech Irish farm.
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This Farming Life - December on Castlefarm


Castle Farm shop in snow
Author: Jenny Young
The farm is in muck. It is cold, wet and dreary so I am glad we will finish milking in mid December. At present we are milking 60 cows once a day. The other cows have been dried off. Calves born earlier this spring have been housed for the winter and heifers (first time calvers) have been brought back to the home farm.
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This Farming Life - November on Castlefarm


Cows on CastleFarm
Author: Jenny Young
What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce
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This Farming Life - September on Castlefarm


John Flahavan
Author: Jenny Young
What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce
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