There's no treat like a "farmer lie-in"

My day away from the farm didn’t allow me to stray too far from my farming roots and reinforced the fact that without agriculture, we wouldn’t have great food, great produce and hugely successful Irish brands, writes Farming columnist Paula Hynes.

Midleton Distillery. Picture: Paula Hynes

With a rare summer weekend where we were not taking part in an agricultural show, it afforded us a Saturday morning lie-in while Becky and Georgie looked after the farm. 

Now, for those of you who haven’t experienced a farmer lie-in, it still entails waking at 5am; but the real treat is going to sleep the night before with no alarm clocks set.