I roamed the lovely, ever changing, most amazing life filled, bogs as a boy and came to love them but fifty years on they are almost all gone due to the greedy, and needy, farmer desiring more acreage for mono crop grass for his stock and a bigger tractor to speed around on
It's possible to have a lot of respect for the old arts of turf cutting but also think that we should now preserve our precious bogs as carbon sinks and wildlife reserves. I don't really have a problem with hand cutting, my problem is with Harte peat scraping the land barren with industrial machinery
There is nothing worse than a rainy day in the bog except for two rainy days in the bog
Riveting stuff here.
It actually is great stuff isn't it Michael
Clap hands for the sound guy
Yes it's excellent!
When SHAWS almost nationwide dressed the whole of rural Ireland..
I roamed the lovely, ever changing, most amazing life filled, bogs as a boy and came to love them but fifty years on they are almost all gone due to the greedy, and needy, farmer desiring more acreage for mono crop grass for his stock and a bigger tractor to speed around on
It's a national tragedy imo
It's possible to have a lot of respect for the old arts of turf cutting but also think that we should now preserve our precious bogs as carbon sinks and wildlife reserves.
I don't really have a problem with hand cutting, my problem is with Harte peat scraping the land barren with industrial machinery
When times was good compared to this snow flake world we live in today 😏
take a day off pal