April

There are some public holidays in Ireland each year. Public holidays may commemorate a special day or other event...

New Year's Day (1 January):        Sunday
New Year's Day (2 January):        MONDAY
St. Patrick's Day (17 March):        FRIDAY
Good Friday (14 April):                FRIDAY
Easter Monday (17 April):            MONDAY

First Monday in May:                   MONDAY

First Monday in June:                  MONDAY

First Monday in August:               MONDAY

Last Monday in October:              MONDAY

Christmas Day (25Dec, 2017):      MONDAY

St. Stephen's Day (26 Dec, 2016): MONDAY

New Year's Eve (31 Dec, 2016):   Saturday    

You know what this means? That of 12 days of holidays, 10 days are Monday or Friday which means that the farmers have to do the harvest... Votes in favor to change the day of harvest when it is holidays? 😀 ✋✋

The weather is getting better and the seedlings are growing fast. Sunshine levels are increasing and there were some good days although also there were some frost nights. 

1st polytunnel

2nd polytunnel

3rd polytunnel

Propagation polytunnel

 What have we harvested?                                                                                                          

Green garlic

Herbs

Radicchio Palla Rosa 

Calendula

Chrysanthemum flower

 What is growing?                                                                                                          

In the fields we can find...

Beans and garlic

Beans

We cleaned the brassicas' field. There are only a few purple broccoli plants with small sprouts

Purple broccoli flower

Hungry gap kale with flower

Red Russian flower

Red Russian kale

Garlic, lettuce, spring onions

Apple flower

Apple tree

Strawberries

Potatoes

Kale

In the polytunnels are growing...

Lettuce for seeds

Buckwheat for fertilize the soil

Sunflowers

Red basil

Zucchini

Squash

Spinach and salad

The first tomatoes in the 3rd polytunnel

Peas

Lavander

Kohlrabi

Borage flower

A vine

Future grapes

THE QUEEN OF THE MUSTARDS

And in the fruit fields...

Black peppermint

 What have we sowed/ transplanted?                                                                                                

3 different soils for transplanting zucchini:

Cilantro and lettuce

Onions

 What jobs have there been on the farm?                                                                                 

Clear old crops, tidy up, chopping...

   

Clear brassicas field:  

Preparing the potatoes soil: 

  

Shadow working

Misty working

And more photos on the farm...                                                                                        

  

Misty

Woolly? Bear Caterpillar

Sanson

Hey, somebody here is hungry!

The result of  work in team!

President Higgins officially opens Cloughjordan Amphitheatre

 

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