An Alternative Approach To Agriculture, Co. Cork, Ireland 1984
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- A Dutch couple look to create a self sufficient life on their farm in County Cork.
Tony and Hannah Weiner have a farm just outside Fermoy which produces every foodstuff that they need, apart from sugar and wheat.
The cows, goats and fowl that they raise are in demand all over the country, their orchards provide them with apples and pears for their home-brewed cider. They also run a successful boarding kennels for dogs. Hannah also makes yoghurt, butter and cheese in her kitchen.
They even weave their knitwear themselves.
The only product the Weiners have not been able to sell are vegetables eaten on a daily basis on the continent, such as endive, about which Tony is still incredulous,
People don’t even know the vegetables...But it’s a matter of culture I think.
Dutch farmers have a different mentality and that Tony believes is the main difference between farms in Ireland and the Netherlands,
Holland is as big as Munster, and it’s the second agricultural exporter in the world after the United States. So efficiency is the thing.
The approach the Weiners take to agriculture is different, but food for thought especially when,
Milk is in crisis, and beef is in overproduction.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 9 October 1984. The reporter is Michael Lally.
Taking culchie to a new level
Netherlands is a large exporter due to factory farming and industrial greenhouses etc. Hardly a route anyone wants to copy.
These 2 are hobby farmers who probably went to Ireland with a few quid in their pockets. At that time I had family milking dairy cows with 3 adults and 5 kids to keep on 40 or so acres of hilly land in the west of Ireland. That was real life at the time.
You can grow spinach, chard, lettuce, coriander, sunflower and broccoli etc sprouts in window container in metal baking trays and compost... Give it a try. It's healthy and enjoyable
The last time I bought anything was a box of matches and that way back in 1984, all the people in my village, we produce all our own food and drinks of the best kind, we make all our own clothing, boots shoes, we drive out electric cars and 4x4s trucks and tractors, when we step out in town many of the young fashionable people come up to us asking where can we buy your fashion, they try to buy the clothing that we are wearing,. We have no call to buy anything so we are filthy rich but money and fame is nothing to us, people say to us you are living the good life, to us it is just normal life, we work each day and do our best to take care of mother earth.
There used to be a saying my dad would tell me if the Dutch had Ireland they'd feed the world if the Irish had Holland they'd drown 😂 and no I'm not Dutch
If we had holland we'd have taken London instead of England taking the north 🤣
All in the mind, hope to join you in Ireland soon
A popular news report.
The man appeared to be quite arrogant. I can see why he might have had trouble selling his endive and other foodstuffs.
I get that a bit. But otoh in 1984 I was officially adult and barely knew what garlic was, never mind endive