2012 Award Winners FARMHOUSE OF THE YEAR 2012
Coolanowle Country House - Ballickmoyler, Co Carlow
For many people – especially families who live in cities – an Irish farm stay is just about the most idyllic holiday imagina...
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In the past year Coolanowle Organic Farm & Meats has been reviewed in a number of publications. These include The October 2005 edition of ‘Organic Matters’ and the April 2007 edition of Food and Wine magazine.
In May 2007&nb...
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Farmer of the Year: Jimmy & Bernadine Mulhall, Coolanowle Farm, County Laois
The Mulhall family are part of the New Agricultural Economy. Several years back, they switched from chemicalised farming to organic farming. Then they pioneered selling...
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Back in 1989 the great American writer and farmer, Wendell Berry, polished off a little essay entitled “The Pleasures of Eating”. It was in this brief and thoughtful piece that Berry first coined the line that has come to be most closely ...
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At harvest-time and on the eve of national organic week farmers like Jimmy and Bernadine Mulhall of Coolanowle Farm in County Laois, are quintessential examples of how farmers are seizing the day and seizing control of their destiny. Today the Mulhal...
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