Connecting Through Heritage with Leitrim County Council
The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series highlights much of Leitrim’s built, natural and cultural heritage from the people who know most about it.
In our latest Memory Meitheals episodes, Fionnuala Maxwell will be speaking to Leitrim residents about the heritage of their local area and their memory’s of growing up and living in Leitrim
The Connecting Through Heritage Podcast Series is an initiative of the Leitrim County Council Heritage Office and is part-funded by the Heritage Council.
Connecting Through Heritage with Leitrim County Council
Traditional Farming
Contributors
John Reynolds has had an interest in the farming methods used by his ancestors since he learned them from his grandfather as a young boy. He takes us through the traditional way of sowing and harvesting perhaps the most historically important crop in Leitrim: the potato.
Tommy Earley has been farming his family’s plot on the shores of Lough Allen for many years. When he first learned about organic farming in 1996, he didn’t know much about it - but what he heard he liked. He’s since ‘gone organic,’ and has adopted a number of new working practices to the farm, such as introducing new habitats and conserving existing ones.