She was feeling a bit chilly so warmed up on my boot before she buzzed off

Zwartbles Ireland • Suzanna Crampton This is so important, while a movement is afoot to 'reclaim' grazing lands and 'restore' them to 'Nature'

Something I’ve talked about for years is finally being picked up by Irish farm media.
BUT very importantly IT IS NOT on a monocultured rye grass,artificial fertiliser based system.
BUT a system of rotationally grazed complex mix of multiple species herbs,grasses&legumes

A few people asked me to share my recipe for Homemade HOBNOBS 🧑🏻‍🍳🧈🌾🍪😍

A nice Saturday morning treat if anyone else is interested. They're super easy & quick. 😀

*Real 🧈 ONLY.
**Not sponsored by Kerrygold Ireland or Flahavan's Porridge (yet!! 😜)

It is an increasingly frequent feature of EU regulations that there is a clause seeking standing for environmental activists to sue individual farmers. It in included in the Industrial Emissions Directive and although was removed at an early stage, was also included in the…

A man noticed that his neighbor’s cats were coming to his property to drink water so he set up a camera to see who else was drinking water...

Kestrel’s lambs were what I call star gazers so needed help & steroids youtu.be/R_MxaUVvWIU?fe… via YouTube Vet said it’s some sort of cerebellar hyperplasia, a brain problem due to in utero viral infections. It’s been disturbingly distressing, hopefully the worst is behind us

Can cows flip the climate narrative? Research shows grazing ruminant animals on land benefits the environment and improves carbon cycling. 'The most striking finding is the discovery that beef production can be carbon negative. Another striking finding is that in some cases, the…

Flock moved to fresh pasture & lots of scald lambs to be treated youtu.be/cVwt-VGTHNk?fe… via YouTube It’s been a bad year for lame sheep. I seem to be treating them more often than I have for years. . Not what I want but what I must deal with.

LittleBit as usual did her own thing. She couldn’t be bother about getting up to greet fans of her’s who traveled from the state of Georgia in USA to visit with her. She just sat tight, belched, chewed her cud & enjoyed her head scratches.

Time this was said! '...hard working people of good faith who follow time-honoured farming methods and/or are developing regenerative livestock farming models, are simply written off and smeared via a generic critique that highlights worst case scenarios'...

Read below why, along with 99% of the UK population, I COULD NEVER GO VEGAN, and won’t be persuaded by the documentary of the same name.
It would need a point by point rebuttal of all the logical fallacies, sweeping generalisations, cherry picking of stats, blatant ignorance, and…

I love threads like this.

James Foley Sadhbh O' Neill - 🍉End genocide now Problems will arise as we are measuring natural systems functions that we often do not [yet] fully understand. If only we had focused on measuring fossil fuel use. This also needs an accounting-science interface & often ppl from one discipline do not fully understand the other.

A perfect example of how Ireland works is provided by Renewable Gas Forum in organising their upcoming conference on the implementation of the National Biomethane Strategy.

They say: 'Ireland Biomethane - the pathway to 2030
Ireland is mobilising and gearing up to deliver the National…

Guess who's back....?!!!!!!

Green hairstreak #butterflies in a local #bog Stunning little creatures.

Tulips are still looking fabulous

Sheep farmer & Farming for Nature Ambassador Boyd Bryce talks about managing hedges on his farm in Donegal. He is opening his gate again for a farm walk on May 19. Book here - bit.ly/FFNFarmwalks

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