Bridget Clark

I started farming by myself in 2020.

So I registered as a sheep farmer.

I decided later on that I was going to go into organic farming.

After going through a couple of years of serious cases of worms, foot rot, fluke, liver fluke is an issue in Ireland.

So I looked into organic farming and that's currently where I'm at now.

So I'm in the first year of being converted into fully organic farming.

So a bag of feed or crunch for sheep will come in a 25kg bag similar to the bag of fertiliser and in this situation you as a solo person have to lift something out of your boot that you've got at the co-op or the local store and you have to carry this across to the trough to feed the sheep in the winter time or to the shed depending on how near you can get with the car.

The challenge behind this is that your back

isn't designed to carry heavy loads for a long period of time.

It feels like a tonne weight, to be honest.

This was an original cottage.

Going way back.

Yeah, and I suppose it's the love of the past and our heritage that really... I don't like to see things that have been here for hundreds of years destroyed.

You know, that's something very important.

That's your farm labour, isn't it?

That's my main farm labour, the wheelbarrow.

The wheelbarrow.

Yeah, without a wheelbarrow with puncture-proof wheels, you couldn't get an awful lot done on the farm by yourself.

It's just that the wheelbarrow is not necessarily designed...

to be able to keep it afloat as you're carrying a very heavy weight.