Dec 2, 2020
Join me as I chat to Mary Fogarty in the little village of Loughmore about how their community has brought the spark and life back into their rural village.
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Hear about, 'The Cottage' project and how this community owned co-op has gone from strength to...
Nov 7, 2020
Local marriages, horses, the large cattle and pig Fairs, 'tanglers', the advent of farm mechanisation, the harvest and threshing, hand milking and the War of Independence and Irish Civil War connection.
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It's all here in episode nine. In the days of "no...
Oct 3, 2020
Meet John Bermingham at his family's rural tourism business in 'Crocanoir' on the Anner river in Tipperary.
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Hear how this former small mixed dairy farm has been turned in to a successful tourism venture as well as small concert venue. People from over fifty...
Sep 10, 2020
Meet farmer, Pat 'Pa' Whyte 4th generation farmer on his farm in the Comeragh mountains, Co Waterford as he prepares his Perth Scotch Blackface sheep for the annual ram sale.
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Hear about the family's beloved pedigree sheep, their dairy enterprise as well as...
Aug 25, 2020
Is the Tomato really a fruit?
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Near Waterford city in the famed 'sunny south east' of Ireland we visit Grantstown Nurseries and meet Tomato grower, David Currid inside his one hectare of glasshouses. Hear about the clever use of technology, an extremely...