The local fruit and veg shop here has three shops. Their apples are unrale. The Mrs knows when I’ve shopped there.
A lot of their veg is local
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You can do all of that on a small footprint. The fruit trees are miniatures and the fruit bushes hog the garden wall.
I also have a deal with my elderly neighbour where I pick all the apples I want from his tree (russets) as long as I give him a few jars of the resultant apple jelly to get him through the winter.
Must be a divil to keep the orangery tidy
The gardener looks after that bit, pal
@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy , your green marxist days are numbered.
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And so is your kids future
You’ll be first against the wall
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Your kids will hate you
@Ambrose_McNulty trying to keep the tractor clean
Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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Textbook
Only a bit of dirty water sure
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@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy will tell you that one of the following photos depicts environmental destruction, climate catastrophe and an attack on wildlife.
What you meant to say was scientists say beef and dairy farming have a catastrophic affect on climate change
Just take your batin’
Typically ignorant Green
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In an organic system farms are basically not viable if they don’t have cattle on hand. Organic beef is totally unprofitable and there isn’t enough demand for it. It’s cloak and dagger but a fair amount is sold into the normal factories for standard prices. Organic dairy is a borderline business at the best of times.
The big thing is the production of slurry as this is the only real way of returning nutrients to the ground for organic farmers. They need the cattle slurry, ideally in the form of dung to grow basically anything that isn’t trees. Oats or tillage crops as they are incredibly hungry for N,P and K and will deplete ground while rapidly losing nutritional value. Clover plays a part but you need top quality land like you would see in the pale or south Tipp/Kilkenny/Carlow to properly make it work. Land that makes over 25k/ac due to a big horse stud and it’s performance capabilities.
Pippa Hackett is the wife to a part time organic farmer with a paltry 200 acres of excellent land in Offaly who needs to work a job as he can’t earn a living off the land according to himself.
These Green party types are just simply contrarians.
There are many, many genuine solutions to make farms totally carbon neutral on balance. The reality is right now that if say a dairy farm put a large array of panels on their shed roofs, met their needs and sold surplus into the grid none of that is deducted from a farms pollution figures.
The grant in place at the moment limits the amount of production a farm can generate from solar panels to the farms needs. It’s almost like it’s intentional. French power companies build entire sheds for farmers just for the rights to put panels on their roofs.
Despite demands, slurry separators were never considered to be included as grant aided. Bio-mass plants are, practically speaking never going to be built in the country despite many attempts to get planning as the same group of cunts object in a huge way and make plans nonviable.
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