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It's the eve of Mayday, so gather a few flowers and leave them on your doorstep. In Irish folklore, the fairies are active tonight, but they won't cross the sweet flowers, so your home will have good luck

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The birdsong on this wee video is fabulous. It's a magical time of year, and I am so grateful to have beautiful old woods that I can enjoy walks with Willow in and gather wild food

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Todays salad is entirely from the garden. Lettuce, spinach, dandelions, pea shoots, viola flowers, swede flowers and chives. #growyourownfood

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Blue skies, the smell of gorse fills the air and quiet boreens to walk Willow. Life is good

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

It's wonderful to see the variety of pollinators on the apple blossoms. Without pollinators we'd have no apples or other fruits. They may fly on to other flowers like dandelions. If these are sprayed with glyphosate the pollinator will die. No pollinators=no fruit for us

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The best Easter eggs. Beannachtaí na Cásca ort. Happy Easter #speirgorm

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

First spinach harvest of the season.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

These four ladies are enjoying semi retirement with me now their time at the organic egg farm is over.They will no longer lay enough eggs to be commercially viable but are perfect for me. Willow is still sizing them up

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

What a lovely day I had with this family. On our food tour, they went foraging, tasted amazing food, met a local grower, and watched cheese being made. The blue skies were a bonus #foodtours

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

I love my life! I was speaking to guests on a food tour yesterday about sheep farming when we had to stop to let these ewes pass. Timing is everything #ireland

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

You can see the outline of the lazy beds that would have grown the potatoes and vegetables for families. We were practising no dig over a hundred years ago #Ireland

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Me and my inner child had a great chat with Paddington in Westport #mayo

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Stumbled into a lovely traditional pub in Connemara recently. The toasted sandwich in a bag took me back twenty years. Coupled with a pot of strong tea and an open fire, we had a grand afternoon #retro

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Pollinators are enjoying dandelions as an early food source. The entire plant is edible, but I only pick the leaves for guests on my foraging walks as I don't want to take such a vital food source away from the pollinators #foraging

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Another round of wild garlic pesto made and bottled. I'm wondering if the influx of invitations to visit friends has more to do with these jars than my sparkling personality 😄

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

The garden continues to feed us. ##growyourownfood

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

Full Irish breakfast for St Patricks Day Every element from the ingredients for the homemade brown bread to the Irish cheese in the wild garlic pesto is Irish. #loveirishfood

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

Growing up, St. Patrick's Day was all about my Ma. It was her birthday. I'll remember her today by doing two of her favourite activities - gardening and enjoying dessert! Lá Fhéile Phádraig sona daoibh go léir. 🇮🇪 Happy St Patrick's Day to all

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

You meet all sorts on a walk in Connemara #ireland

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Sláinte on International Women’s Day

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

My least favourite job in the garden is washing the glasshouse. It's a cold,wet, messy job. But at the end of the few hours it's really satisfying to see the clean glass. The significant increase in light will really benefit the plants.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Love this Baínín Vest which is filled with felted noil from Galway sheep. Noil is the shirt fibre removed during the combing process of spinning. The vest was designed and made by Annika Joachim & Fabienne Rako funded by the EU

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Welcome, March. Looking forward to blue skies, a little warmth in the sun, longer evenings, spring flowers, bird song, and new growth everywhere

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

It was lovely to bring a group to Corcomroe Abbey yesterday. While my tours have a strong focus on food and farming, I enjoy sharing different aspects of our culture with guests. The 12th Century Abbey is well worth a visit if you are in the Burren

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 100 days ago • 576 comments

Sourdough bagels, boiled, baked, and ready for breakfast. I love Saturday mornings

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Wild garlic shoots are appearing in our woodlands. My favourite patch is in a local wood that was ravaged in the recent storms. I went there yesterday to see if the patch was still accessible and despite having to navigate lots of fallen trees I was delighted to see these shoots

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Set up a new phone last night and can't access my account on the other place. Maybe this is a sign to leave

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Crocus in flower brightens the day

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

I really have to stop watching medical dramas late at night. Some of the surgeries I performed in my dreams didn't have good outcomes

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments