{"id":418176,"date":"2026-04-03T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/418176\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:09:11","slug":"i-wasnt-a-farmer-when-i-inherited-a-220ac-farm-i-had-to-learn-everything-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/418176\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I wasn\u2019t a farmer when I inherited a 220ac farm \u2013 I had to learn everything from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">How a switch to organic helped this Laois family build a resilient, biodiverse farm\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ruth Young and her daughter Emma on their farm near Rathdowney, Co Laois\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aabc0e80-f0be-41b3-9bdf-189b39a62e47.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ruth Young and her daughter Emma on their farm near Rathdowney, Co Laois<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ruth Young inherited a farm in 2014 from her aunt with strict instructions to enjoy it and never let it become a burden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today, the 90ha (222ac) farm near Rathdowney, Co Laois includes 12ha of forestry but it has been the move to organics that has helped keep the farm viable and establish a healthy ecosystem producing quality food and preserving biodiversity for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How a switch to organic helped this Laois family build a resilient, biodiverse farm Ruth Young and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,64472],"class_list":["post-418176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-organics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116340232617519700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}