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This Farming Life - Summer


Courgettes
Author: Jenny Young
Plenty to do at Castlefarm this month, with weeding an important job to keep under control - and then foraging in the hedgerows for pleasure
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Jenny Young - Castlefarm Cow
Author: Jenny Young
The strange weather held things up at Castlefarm this spring and the cows have only just been let out overnight
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This Farming Life - Spring


Ploughed Allotments
Author: Jenny Young
At last our cows are grazing outside full time. This means less time feeding silage and bedding the sheds with straw. The expense of dairy ration has also been cut out of their diet. Now it is AI season. For six weeks any cow that comes into heat will be artificially inseminated.
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This Farming Life
Author: Jenny Young
The spring is beginning to pick up pace at Castlefarm. At last the end of spring calving is in sight. Since I last wrote this column over 80 calves were born at Castlefarm. Some days we had up to 8 new arrivals.
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This Farming Life - New Arrivals


Calves
Author: Jenny Young
The year’s new arrivals have begun at Castlefarm. We arrived back from our annual holidays on 2nd of February to nine calves that had been born early. Needless to say, Andrew who works with us full time on the farm was delighted to see us back. Although we started out the month milking 18 cows, each day brings at least one fresh calver that adds to the milking total.
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This Farming Life - A New Year for Castlefarm


Jenny Young - Castlefarm Ducks
Author: Jenny Young
We are nearly back to normality after the Christmas break at Castlefarm. In preparation for our spring herd of 70 cows to calve down, we have disinfected calf sheds and re-installed calving cameras in the calving boxes. From the end of January the monitor in our bedroom will allow us to check on expectant mothers through the night without leaving the warmth of our house.
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This Farming Life - December


Castlefarm
Author: Jenny Young
Castlefarm gears up for Christmas – the Farm Shop is open every day from 19th – 24th December, and Jenny Young explains how they then manage the workload to keep time needed on the farm to a minimum over the holiday.
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This Farming Life - November


Castlefarm
Author: Jenny Young
There are a lot of apple trees at Castlefarm and Jenny Young explains what they do with the excess fruit. At Castlefarm we have two orchards beside our house. The old orchard was planted by Peter’s grandparents nearly a century ago. The newer orchard was planted by Peter and I during the winter of 2007. We received a small REPS grant to plant this orchard of 26 trees. We sourced old Irish apple varieties from Seed Savers.
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This Farming Life - September


CastleFarm - Pigs
Author: Jenny Young
Castlefarm looks forward to celebrating National Organic Week and Jenny Young talks about what it is like to be a certified organic farmer.
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This Farming Life - July


CastleFarm - Drilling for Water
Author: Jenny Young
Jenny Young describes dealing with one of the unwelcome (but essential) hidden costs that challenge all farmers. With all this rain readers might find it difficult to believe that Castlefarm has been suffering water shortages. As a household we are part of a local group water scheme and for the past 2 years, due to water shortages in the area, the water has been rationed more and more frequently.
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