Getting back to good mental health on a community farm

Running a community farm and their own bakery has had a profound effect on the mental health of Slí Eile’s workers, many of whom had spent years in psychiatric hospital, writes Margaret Jennings

It is one of those sleety, bitter-cold mornings – when slinking further under the duvet would offer a warm refuge.

But at Slí Eile, in North Cork —a refuge of a different sort — it was business as usual.