Bord Bia - Irish Food Board
The flavour shows where the best grass grows
The Deverell family have been breeding Hereford beef cattle on their Co. Offaly farm for more than 70 years. Here, Ivor recounts springtime at Ballyaville.
Ivor Deverell’s farm: March 2011
“Spring is our busiest time of year here at Ballyaville farm. My uncle Joe and I share the workload looking after animals indoors, feeding silage, bedding the sheds with straw and tending to the cows on the farm around calving time. …
In the fertile south east of Ireland, in Ballinamona, the Kent family’s beef cattle enjoy grazing amidst 195 acres of grassland and tillage. Waterford …
Running a diverse and productive 194-acre organic family farm in the heart of Co. Kilkenny, the Colchesters sell most of their output directly to …
Fellfort Angus Farm is a 185-acre farm located in Watergrasshill, Co. Cork. Approximately 50 acres of the land is rented. 80 per cent of …
David Johnson farms 280 acres near the picturesque village of Redcross, Co. Wicklow. Of the total holding, 60 acres are rented and all are …
Brothers Denis and John Large farm approximately 900 acres near the town of Urlingford, beside the border of counties Tipperary and Kilkenny. They are …
Derek and Mary Deane took over the family farm in Kiltegan, Co Wicklow, south of Dublin in the 1970s, continuing a family tradition which …
Just outside the small village of Stoneyford, in Co. Kilkenny, a fertile, limestone-rich, midland county, Richard Hogg’s 160-acre farm is split in two sections. …
Like the harbour it borders in Crosshaven, Cork, Billy Nicholson’s 450-acre farm manages to seamlessly combine the picturesque with the practical. One of the …
Based in Co. Wexford, near the village of Carnew, in the south east of Ireland, Michael O’Neill farms 200 acres, with 40 of these …
Offaly is a midlands county and part of Ireland’s great central pasture belt. It is here that uncle and nephew Joe and Ivor Deverell …
Resident nutritionist Julie Dowsett shares her musings on staying healthy with beef.
