I collect up ewes & lambs to bring them to our most biodiverse field
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 07/05/2020

This is what regenerative farming is about. It is to encourage the most biodiverse flora which in turn attracts the fauna. Dung beetles are a vital part as they cycle the mineral rich soil that deep down when the dig their burrows under piles of manure. Deep rooted plants like dandelion, cow parsley, salad burnet and yarrow are a few of the plants that bring nutrients up for grazing animals to access. There are many grasses which can’t access, particularly the popular rye grass which is obscenely shallow rooted. Also shallow root systems also don’t sequester as much carbon in the long term as those plants with deep roots. Animals that graze a diverse sward also have mineral rich manure which insects as divers as butterflies to ants, dung beetles to honeybees all land on to source their natural vitamin and mineral supplements and healthy microbes.


Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring the Cats Shepherd Bodacious and Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog.