This Farming Life

Autumn has come in so quickly this year, and this has brought us our first autumn calf this week, as well as our first season’s honey. In the orchard our apples will be collected very soon and be transformed into apple juice.

We have been preparing for National Organic weekend at Castlefarm. National Organic Week provides a great chance to invite people onto the farm to learn more about organics and the work and care involved on a farm like ours. This Saturday we will welcome lots of people onto our farm for free tastings, cookery inspiration and fun activities such as egg collecting and pig feeding.

There will also be a farm walk where customers can visit the bees, cows and vegetable patch. Customers will be invited to help harvest fresh vegetables and participate in a cookery demonstration for inspiration about how to cook and serve what is in season.

Bringing people onto our farm to help feed our pigs and collect their own eggs and vegetables really gives them an insight and an appetite for seasonal, local, Irish produce. Children in particular, get excited about eating food that they see growing and help collect.

Castlefarms Organic week celebrations take place on Saturday 17th Sept and all events are free of charge. Visitors should remember that this is a real farm and old clothes and wellingtons are recommended.


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Diary for Saturday 17th Sept - wear old clothes and wellingtons
11am: Help feed the organic pigs
2.30pm: Egg collecting
3pm: Farmwalk, culminating in vegetable harvesting and a cookery demonstration in the farm shop.

Castlefarm shop will be open from10.am – 6pm on Saturday 17th September. There will be a 10% discount on all organic produce. There will also be free food tastings on the day.

There is no charge for activities.

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