Hemp Farming: ‘The making of a rural renaissance’

The beauty of hemp is that once the seed is in “you can shut the gate and ignore it for three months”

Kate Carmody, a farmer from Asdee in North Kerry, owner of Beal Organic Cheese and chairwoman of Hemp Co-operative Ireland, pictured at a home working with hemp which will be placed in the walls of an old farm house.

In Beal, Co Kerry, overlooking the water, Kate Carmody shares life with her daughters, pets, an organic farm that has a “mixture of everything”, and her business — Beal Organic Cheese.

And alongside that, having set it up in 2018 with other farmers and interested parties, Ms Carmody will step down as chairwoman of Hemp Cooperative Ireland next month, but she certainly won’t be idle.