Organic Matters
by Irish Organic Association
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Season 5: Diversification with sheep, blueberries and paludiculture
Season 5: Diversification with sheep, blueberries and paludiculture
About this podcast
Organic Matters Podcast is brought to you every Saturday by the Irish Organic Association. Our host Hannah Quinn-Mulligan will expertly guide you through each episode as we meet organic farmers and food producers from all over Ireland. We have been certifying organic farms and businesses for 40 years and we bring you a flavour of why organic matters now more than ever. Meet some of our fantastic members discussing how organic is central to their business. Tune in every Saturday at 12 noon.
Episodes
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- Season 5: Diversification with sheep, blueberries and paludiculture · 37 minThis week on Organic Matters, we speak to organic sheep and horticulture farmer John O'Sullivan, who farms over 800 acres of largely boggy soil in Connemara. John has also…
- Season 5: Suckler farming on Queen Meav's island · 30 minThis week on Organic Matters, we take to the water to bring you a very special podcast on Inis Cloithrinn or Quaker Island as it is locally known, where organic livestock farmer…
- Season 5: Getting your organic suckler and sheep system right for you · 24 minThis week on Organic Matters, we speak to James Donnellan, an organic suckler and sheep farmer based in Northeast Galway. James talks about his love of Aubrac cattle and the…
- Season 5: Saving Ireland's seed and apple heritage · 37 minThis week on the Organic Matters Podcast, we speak to Elaine Bradley from the Irish Seed Savers Association based in Clare. It works to protect and preserve Ireland’s traditional…
- Season 5: Growing organic potatoes, apples and beef finishing · 14 minThis week on the Organic Matters Podcast, we speak to farmer Donald Treacy, based near Athy in Co. Kildare, who runs a mixed organic farm with his wife Aideen and two sons…
- Season 5: Making a business from organic veg · 25 minThis week, long time organic vegetable grower Dermot Carey, based in South Kildare, talks to the Organic Matters Podcast about his business. Coming from a family involved in…
- Season 5: Organic beef finishing and growing your own grain · 25 minThis week on the Organic Matters Podcast, we speak to farmer Brian Meredith based in Co. Laois, who runs a spring and autumn organic suckler-to-beef herd with his father. He…
- Season 5: Managing organic grasslands in dry conditions and experimenting with living mulches · 21 minThis week on the Organic Matters Podcast, we speak with Mary Lynch, an independent organic advisor and ACA member who also runs a mixed suckler beef and tillage farm with her…
- Season 5: Farming in the Burren and renovating old buildings for agri-tourism · 19 minThis week's Organic Matters Podcast meets organic suckler farmer Pat McCarthy who is farming in the Burren. His children are the ninth generation on their family farm in Co…
- Season 5: Going from conventional dairy to organic beef · 23 minThis week, farmer Pat Maher talks to the Organic Matters Podcast about his journey from being a dairy farmer with a nitrates derogation to an organic suckler farmer. Based on…
- Season 5: Converting from conventional to organic beef and building a new shed · 17 minThis week, we are launching Season 5 of the Organic Matters Podcast brought to you by the Irish Organic Association. In this first episode, we are delighted to speak with organic…
- Season 4: Outwintering beef cattle on cover crops and growing crop mixes · 17 minIn the final episode of Season 4 of the Organic Matters Podcast, we meet organic farmers Aoife Gibney and Eamon Campbell on their beef and tillage farm in Co. Meath. The couple…
- Season 4: Switching from sheep to organic beef, cereals and agri-tourism · 17 minIn this week's episode, we meet organic farmer and entrepreneur Richard Ball, farming on the Meath/Westmeath border. Richard and his wife Bairbre switched from lambing a few…
- Season 4: Producing Turkeys for Christmas, Milling Oats and More · 19 minThis week on Organic Matters, we meet mixed farmers John and Fiona Curran in Co. Meath. The Currans manage a range of enterprises, including turkeys, tillage, beef and sheep…
- Season 4: Organics helping to save rare breeds and grasslands · 26 minThis week on Organic Matters, we meet cattle and sheep farmer Tom Keane, located on the banks of the Shannon estuary, Co. Limerick. Tom, along with his brother Michael, has been…
- Season 4: Balancing organic tillage, beef, horses and nature · 22 minThis week on Organic Matters, we meet Philip and Eleanor Cussen, who farm in Co. Tipperary. They blend their love for nature and Irish Cobs, with growing tillage and rearing…
- Season 4: First time tillage farmer successfully growing crops and selling direct · 21 minThis week on Organic Matters, tillage and beef farmer Reuben Cope, based in County Kilkenny, speaks to Hannah Quinn-Mulligan about converting to organic farming and taking the…
- Season 4: Sums adding up for organic tillage and sheep in Carlow · 20 minThis week on the Organic Matters Podcast Joe Nolan, a relatively recent convert to organics, speaks to Hannah Quinn-Mulligan about downsizing from 1,000 sheep and reintroducing…
- Season 4: Direct selling your own suckler beef · 20 minThis week, Organic Matters meets third-generation suckler farmer Padraic O'Donnell, based in South Galway. After returning home from the UK to take over his family farm, he…
- Season 4: Championing native Irish sheep and wool · 28 minThis week, Organic Matters meets Blátnaid Gallagher, an organic sheep farmer in East Galway who has been championing the native Galway sheep breed for meat and wool. She's…
