Building direct selling veg and combi crop businesses

This week on Organic Matters, we meet brothers Charlie and Dan Hogan, and Dan’s partner Una Wycherley who all run Larkin’s Hill Farm together on the outskirts of Nenagh in Co Tipperary.

They sell salad and vegetables to local retailers, and in addition to managing a suckler herd, they have more recently started growing and selling combi crops as animal feed to meet growing demand from organic livestock farmers.

They talk about their experiences with the different farm enterprises and their complementarity, as well as plans for the future, which include finishing cattle, incorporating trees onto the farm and further developing market outlets for their horticulture.