Paula Hynes: Getting down to the grassroots of sustainability

All the lists have been done for calving, and everything is organised - the calm before the spring-calving storm, writes Aherla farmer Paula Hynes.

Georgia (left) and Becky Hynes with Lulu a two-week-old Simmental Heifer at there farm at Aherla in Co. Cork. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

We had a very productive week on the farm. I was delighted with the amount of work we got through. The Bord Bia inspection went like a dream ...apart from one small issue with the pet sheep. 

Sheep wouldn’t be my strong point, but Becky loves them, and by the looks of it, they’re here to stay. It was only a minor issue, in that I don’t have a scale for them, but with only six sheep, I didn’t see it as an issue.