Today I’m an arborist, so tend my young stock of trees with canine help
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 03/07/2021

I’m trimming off their plastic stays which they’ve had since they were planted this last spring. I do this to alleviate the pressure on their thin skinned young tree bark. Some people take these off to soon others for get to take them off and trees will grow into these plastic ties and slowly strangle themselves. 



Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We are a regenerative farm so we farm with nature. Healthy soils are important for health environment. So we encourage all life from the microbial to dung beetles, pollinators to flora biodiversity, birds, rabbits, fox, badger as well as our livestock.
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.