A wet New Year’s Day. I decided on my 2024 word, HOPE. We all need it

New Year’s resolutions only let one down as most don’t keep them. A word can evolve into so much to accomplish in a year. Recently there’s been so much negativity that hopefully hope can balance it all out.
Snow drops are beginning to bloom and hellebores are fattening up to bloom soon.

Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We are a regenerative farm which means restoring soils health and regenerating its natural carbon and nutrient cycle with biodiversity of pasture sward with grasses, legumes, forbs and herbs. This also means we farm with nature. Healthy soils are important for healthy environment. So we encourage all life from the microbial to dung beetles, ants, pollinators to flora biodiversity, birds, hare, hedgehogs, rabbits, fox, badger as well as our livestock. This mean we farm in a style of mob grazing and giving fields long rest times between grazings. We have seen a huge increase and return of wildlife including woodcock and snipe in winter months foraging for dung beetle larvae, red squirrel, wood peckers and pine martens. We also have the rare natter bat and previously thought extinct Tawny Mining bees.
We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring Inca the World’s Smallest Sheepdog and her coworkers. We also sell alpaca yarn spun for our own alpaca. Our yarns are 100 percent natural, grown by our sheep which grazing our small green Irish fields. This wool is naturally sequestered carbon which you can then knit into warm environmental friendly clothing.

Hey ladies you all hopeful for your breakfast there we go hope or anticipation I think animals anticipate humans we live in hope maybe that will be my 2014 no goodness me there’s a four in it 2024 my word for the year I think will be hope so many people feel things are

Hopeless they’re not there is hope live in Hope find Hope be hope hope for health hope for sleep hope to read many books hope hope to learn loads in this new year 2024 hope I think that is going to be my word for 2024 hope for no no no no hey for

On hey on hey hey D so oh little bit see now you’re fine not lame it’s funny how the Sheep decide when to be lame and when not to be not lame anyway it’s definitely starting to rain and uh the flock is all decided to eat the hay I’ve just put

In rather than their baale which is outdoors over there there’s still plenty there you’ve got loads to eat my friends loads to eat happy New Year everybody I’m going to go inside now for a cup of coffee I’ve planted my tree hope and my New Year word I do a word rather

Than a resolution so my New Year word is hope we all hope for spring in the middle of winter Should I or shouldn’t I let him in yeah you want in you want to come in yeah you going to come in hey Kitty yeah oh you’re soaking wet oh you’re soaking wet wet you’re soaking wet kitty yeah