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theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy @theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

St. Patrick's Day. Cahir. 2026.

Picture of a red vintage tractor with trailer of apples at Cahir Castle.

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theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy @theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Spotted a purple crocus peeking out of last years autumn leaves, near Cahir in Co. Tipperary. On closer inspection, in the crocus is a pollinating insect with pollen stuck to its hairs. Pictured Feb 22nd, 2026.

A purple crocus peeking out of last years autumn leaves, near Cahir in Co. Tipperary. In the crocus is a bee -like fly with pollen stuck to its hairs. Pictured Feb 22nd, 2026.

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theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy @theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Apple consumers in Ireland. Please help Jean with his research. Feel free to repost to reach a larger audience. forms.office.com/e/jdyayh7JaG

Jean is conducting research on preferences among apple consumers in Ireland. Picture of a poster featuring Jean, some apples, and a QR code to the questionnaire.

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theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy @theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

David Llewellyn near Lusk (Dublin) makes some fantastic wines, including ones from the outdoor grown varieties Rondo (red) and Madeleine Angevine (white). I have vines of the latter, and David wants to grow more, so today as the sun shone I prepared a box of shoots he'll use as cuttings.

Large wooden box filled with 40 to 50cm long sections of mid brown one-year old grape shoots. Shoots cut using a red Felco secateurs (also pictured), and in the background the mother vine against a painted wooden fence, with delicate vegetation covering the ground nearby, nicely illuminated by a low winter sun behind light veiled clouds.

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theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy @theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Time for a quick look at our farm electricity consumption and production for 2025. Overall, including feed back to the grid, about 1/6 of our power came from solar this year. 50,000 kW approx, from our 95kW , mostly south-facing rooftop system.

Screen grab photo of a graph showing electricity consumption and production at The Apple Farm in 2025.

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theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy @theapplefarmer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

This can be a bad combination. Crops of apples can be devastated in minutes by a hail shower, especially if it's a hailstorm with larger hailstones. Luckily when this shower struck today, there was no potential for damage, as the last of our harvest finished about a week ago.

A photohraph of a lone Elstar apple, striped orange red in colour, surrounded by hailstones following a recent hail shower near Cahir, County Tipperary, in Ireland.

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