Zwartbles dried ewe flock merged with lamb/hoggett flock & moved fields
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2021-07-17

The great oak hill field has a wonderful natural draft which helps keep sheep cool in this hot weather. The steep hill with trees at the bottom and top help create a natural cooling system. So many farms no longer have shade for their livestock as they’ve been advised to take trees out to grow more monocultured grass to “improve” productivity. Soil health needs biodiversity of above soil plant life. This includes trees.




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.