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Why don't more Irish farmers host open days? This was the question I was asking myself after throwing our own gates open to the public last spring. Admittedly, I was anxious about how things would ...

When I was in my teens I was mad about showing cattle. We had pedigree Holsteins and the herd had a registered prefix called after the farm itself, Elmgrove. When I started dabbling in buying a few ...

It took a while for the penny to drop over the last couple of months. As soon as I started construction on my farm shop, people were asking if we’d be serving coffee. I would nod enthusiastically ...

The advent of silage making was an unheralded revolution of sorts in Irish agriculture. The concept that you could pickle grass in its own acids suddenly opened up the prospect of a reliable source of ...

Over the last century, the McCullough family have combined innovation and hard work to create a thriving business at Elmgrove Farm. Pat McCullough (pictured above) was the first generation of ...

While Elmgrove Farm is a mixed farm enterprise, it’s core focus is growing flowers.  But it wasn’t always that way.  “My grandad grew gladiola back in the 1960s or 1970s, ...

On the last day of March, 2020, Darragh McCullough dragged himself out of bed heavy with the knowledge that he had tulips and daffodils and all kinds of other lovely flowers piling up in his tunnels ...