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07, 2021
Life on the Farm – April
April is the month our garden and orchard teams long for. Milder, drier weather allows them to be out in the gardens for longer to tackle the workload full on, providing the weather behaves of course. Our bare root selling season has finished and was a great success. A small number of bare roots will [...]
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06, 2020
Life on the Farm – June
We have finished potting on all of our heritage apple trees and with the recent dry spell we have to keep a close on them to ensure healthy growth over the coming months. Constant tending to our budded stock is also needed now, as well as keeping an eye out for any diseases on our mature [...]
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05, 2020
Life on the Farm – May
Due to phenomenal demand, we have had to take our seeds offline to allow us time to catch up and process the hundreds of orders placed over the last week. Our supporter seed order season has come to an end but any orders received by April 30th are being processed. New supporters will be able [...]
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03, 2020
Life on the Farm – March
We had a fantastic Community Seed Share on March 1st with dozens of new faces, coming from far and wide to share and swop seeds. These events form a large part of our ethos here at Irish Seed Savers, bringing communities together to promote biodiversity, share stories and to help protect rare heirloom varieties for future [...]
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02, 2020
Life on the Farm – February
To commemorate the arrival of Imbolc (Brigid’s Day) we performed the ancient tradition of the ‘orchard visiting wassail’. This custom awakens the land and promotes a good harvest for the year ahead. This was followed by a tree planting ceremony with our long time supporter Steve Marsh. Due to the milder weather some of our [...]
