I loved to see all the varieties and planting ideas but I couldn’t get over the sound system piped in birdsong. It was much louder than was natural. I had a great day but was very grateful to go home to our small green field with black sheep.
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.
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Thank you for showing us all the different creations.I prefer what you have achieved and continue to do .Thanks for dropping by .☘️💚🤗👋
Thankyou for sharing the garden show .it was wonderful to see all the different gardens .
Love the contrast . Your farm is so nice and a wild feel to it .
Loved viewing the garden show . But always nice to return to the sheep and horses and dogs and cats etc.
A lot of thought and work went into all the displays…I particularly like the water themed ones and that big dog bone like bench, bet Inca and the cats would like to sit and sun themselves.
Lovely walking through the garden festival. Amazing displays! Did you have a role to play there? Always nice to get back home….
I just noticed…do you still have the black faced ewes?
Gran aventura