This ewe obviously doesn't get paid enough, as she demonstrates natural nutrient cycle
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2022-05-11

I talk about the natural cycle of nutrients for soil and plant nutrition as a soil Regenrative farm practice. Ruminant digestion is the perfect way to break down fibrous plant material. It ferments plants into nutrient dense fertile food for plants and trees. With the additional value of added microbial life to the dung that's then place around this tree. Dung beetles then help break it down for the soil to digest and then feed to trees and surrounding grasses, legumes and herbs. So these apple trees will then grow delicious apples for humans and animal to eat. 


Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We are a regenerative farm which means restoring soils health and regenerating its natural carbon and nutrient cycle with biodiversity of pasture sward with grasses, legumes, forbs and herbs. This also means we farm with nature. Healthy soils are important for healthy environment. So we encourage all life from the microbial to dung beetles, ants, pollinators to flora biodiversity, birds, hare, hedgehogs, rabbits, fox, badger as well as our livestock. This mean we farm in a style of mob grazing and giving fields long rest times between grazings. We have seen a huge increase and return of wildlife including woodcock and snipe in winter months foraging for dung beetle larvae, red squirrel, wood peckers and pine martens. We also have the rare natter bat and previously thought extinct Tawny Mining bees.
We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog and her coworkers. We also sell alpaca yarn spun for our own alpaca. Our yarns are 100 percent natural, grown by our sheep which grazing our small green Irish fields. This wool is naturally sequestered carbon which you can then knit into warm environmental friendly clothing.