Kilbeggan’s recipe for organic success

From its earliest inception, organic farming has always focused on re-circulating resources back into the farm. 

Farm yard manure and crop rotations are two examples, while the use of legumes and clover, companion planting and even biological controls harness what’s available as knowledge and nature, rather than relying on completely external inputs.

Of course, before mineral fertiliser and the other newly developed agri-industrial inputs of the 20th century — herbicides, pesticides and so on — all farming did too. However it did so with much lower yields than modern organic farming, which combines the latest apt technical innovations with ancient farming wisdom.