Rural Life
As alternative farm enterprises become increasingly popular, those behind Kilmeedy Social Farm in...
Leitrim Integrated Development Company CLG has been confirmed as the successful tenderer under the...
Doon Social Farm, a certified organic farm, social enterprise and charity, has received funding...
Agri Politics
The Department of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and the Marine (DAFM) has issued a public tender...
Farmer’s Yards, a social wellbeing initiative developed at University of Galway for the farming...
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has announced funding of around...
Social Farming Ireland, which promotes access to farming and livestock for people who are socially,...
Social Farming Ireland is hosting five farm open days around the country as part of Social Farming...
Dairy
The judging of pedigree holstein Friesian cows got underway this week for the Kildare Holstein...
'Social Farming' is proving to be the ultimate 'win-win' for rural communities, with multiple...
The demand for the Kerry social farming project is continuing to far exceed the supply of host...
New funding of €200,000 for 2024 has been granted for the Social Farming Ireland Programme to...
Social Farming Ireland is seeing continued growth in demand for and commissioning of social...
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has announced that his...
Social Farming Awareness Week will run from October 2-6, showcasing a range of social farms'...
The potential of social farming for rural communities was highlighted by agriculture minister...
A social-farming research project, backed by the EU, is exploring ways to help more older people to...
Farming and fostering can go hand in hand to great effect, according to Marie and Jimmy Barlow from...
One of the many benefits of social farming is that it encourages the farmer and the wider farm...
Sowing seeds, eating cake and chatting in the rain are all everyday activities on social farms, and...
The Minister of State with responsibility for land use and biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett has...
A Co. Roscommon farmer has earmarked 2ac out of his 100ac for vegetable allotments that can be used...
Farmers as well as programme participants benefit enormously from social farming, a Donegal dairy...
