It’s our last Friday Farms before Bank of Ireland Open Farm Weekend 2016! We hope you have enjoyed our series looking at different sectors of farming. Today’s focus is on farm shops. When you visit our participating farms, you get a better appreciation of the effort and skill that the farmer has used to produce…
The egg-citement is brewing for Bank of Ireland Open Farm Weekend 2016, as this week, we take a special look at poultry farms taking part. Poultry farming is the raising of domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese for the purpose of farming meat or eggs for food. Cavanagh Free Range Eggs in…
June is being celebrated as the Love Dairy month as part of the NI Year of Food and Drink campaign. With the amount of lush grassland that covers Northern Ireland it is no wonder that our dairy is award-winning. From farmhouse cheeses and spectacular butter to traditional ice cream, we put our dairy to deliciously…
Did you have a fry for your breakfast this morning? Perhaps, because it is Friday, you had a few rashers of bacon in a buttie or enjoyed the full works with sausages, eggs, tomatoes and potato bread. It is thanks to our hard working pig farmers that we can enjoy delicious pork. Whether its bacon…
Perhaps the first things you think of when the word farm is mentioned are – animals. However, not all farms have animals. An arable farm is where farmers plough the land, sow seeds and grow plants to harvest, such as potatoes, vegetables, wheat and barley.
Have you been to Balmoral Show this week? If you have, you might have taken a walk through the large cattle shed and/or watched the animals being judged on the cattle lawn. There are a range of beef farms across Northern Ireland that will open their gates to the public as part of Bank of…
May is being celebrated as the Landscape and Places month as part of the NI Year of Food and Drink campaign. One thing you will spot, no matter which part of Northern Ireland’s countryside you pass through, are plenty of sheep that graze our lovely green landscapes. There are a range of sheep farms across…
April has been celebrated as the brewing and distilling month as part of the NI Year of Food and Drink campaign. This summer, not one but two Armagh apple orchard farms will open their gates to participate in Bank of Ireland Open Farm Weekend 2016.
