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Irish Farmerette is now on Facebook
It’s been a busy week – my dad was in hospital, I was teaching on Wednesday night (Blogging Effectively for Your Business) and delivered a talk at a #webpowwow in Wexford yesterday morning. Even though...
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Little Farmerette with a Little Calf
A tiny heifer calf was born the other day, no larger than a small dog! Kate has named her Honey. Here she is beside another newborn so you can see just how titchy she is. Absolutely tiny! but she’s...
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Irish Farmerette Goes Cycling
I love going for a cycle and once the twice daily feeding of calving has eased, I’m intending to get out for a cycle most days in May. There is a particularly nice route nearby which is about 8 miles...
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Irish Farmerette in the New York Times
You never know where your blog might get you! I was talking at a Web Pow Wow in Wexford some months ago based on my experience of having an online shop and using social media to promote it. Naturally...
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Irish Farmerette goes to the Charisma Bootcamp
You may remember that I mentioned some time ago that I was heading to the Charisma Bootcamp, organised by Owen Fitzpatrick. Well, that happened over the last few days. I only made it to the Gresham on...
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A Day in the Life of an Irish Farmerette
For someone who loves blogging, I’m very aware that I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t been around here much! I’ve had this post in my head for some time that I must write down what I do all day...
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Irish Farmerette’s Bucket List for 2013
Forget about goals and objectives though I have written them too and am slightly daunted by my long list of goals but a much more fun list is a bucket list for 2013, and having just read a suggested...
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Compact Calving and Calf Feeding
95 calves in 23 days with 50 more to go. 2 losses (one was the c-section) but where there’s life, there’s a chance of death death! We’ve had 5 sets of twins, one set of bulls, two sets of heifer/bull,...
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Summer Has Hit Ireland – for a day!
Summer hit Ireland today and we embraced it with open arms. The temperature last night was to be between zero and -5 degrees Celsius and there was plenty of white frost on the ground this morning but...
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#Farmerettes Tweet Up
I was interviewed some time ago for the Irish Examiner and it was featured this week in the Farming Supplement – with me even being shown on the masthead of the front page with Alex Ferguson below!!...
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Irish Farmerette Goes To Wales
As you can probably guess by the silence here, it’s been a busy week. I went to Wales last week for a two day trip (more on that in a moment), then I was teaching in Co. Meath and then catching up on...
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Free Sidebar Advertisement Reward
Time for an update on the crowdfunding campaign. Some lovely bloggers are writing about it (full list of bloggers and links coming up in my next post about this later in the week) and I’ve been...
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Irish Farmerette goes to the Tullamore Show
We were thinking of going to the Tullamore Show last Sunday and when we won tickets from Agriland, that decided it. We tend to go to it every 2 or 3 years, it is one of the biggest agricultural shows...
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A very busy weekend – marrying farmers off and cabareting!
It has been a busy weekend and I have to admit I’m pretty tired. If I had got any notions about judging a competition in front of over a thousand people or organising a blog awards, I was brought back...
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8 Pre-Nuptial Agreement Suggestions for Marrying Farmers
Apparently some farmers are deliberately not getting married because they fear a prospective wife may divorce them and take half the farm. Parents aren’t handing over the farm to their son in case...
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Update on ‘Marry A Farmer’, Virtual Tour and Getting The Farm Ready For Winter
The book is out! There were 1000 books in my hall on Friday. There are still almost 1000 books in my hallway but about 150 of them have been packaged up with about the same number to do tomorrow. Yes,...
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The Latest From Garrendenny
It’s been a busy few days. The lambs have been up and down – it seemed like Jack had joint ill (which could kill him) and then he was puffing and panting a bit so it looked like he had pneumonia. Daisy...
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A Hot Irish Summer! Would You Believe it?!
Ireland is experiencing a pretty good summer this year with a heatwave this week. Well, it might not be a heatwave in the technical sense but for us pale Irish folks, experiencing a few days of 25-27...
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My Farming Week: Flighty Calves, Paper-Eating Heifers, Red Spray and The End...
Between the bank holiday for St Patrick’s Day, the children being off school for two days and the fact that I wasn’t doing any training or mentoring, I’ve had a pretty full on farming week. I’m doing...
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