Our Farm Shop is located on the outskirts of Tullow on our Family Farm, where you can understand the meaning of farm to fork. If you come along to Coppenagh House Farm shop you will see the animals that we rear and experience the beautiful surroundings of the Carlow countryside.
On our farm we have a small herd of continental suckler cows which are calved to a Belgium blue or limousine bull.The female offspring, if not being used as replacements within the herd, are grass and meal fed to supply the meat for our farm shop, the male offspring are finished as under 24-month-old bull beef commercially.
Sharing the fields with our cows are 8 hives of bees. Our good friend and passionate &award-winning Beekeeper Dermot Rothwell from Rose Cottage Honeyhas kindly placed these hives on the farm. All the honey and comb honey that is harvested from the hives can be purchased directly from the farm shop. Coppenagh is well known for its numerous chestnut trees and it’s those trees that help give our honey a unique and distinctive taste.
Underneath these trees close to the shop is where you will also find a drove of Durock X Oxford Sandy and Black pigs. They’re rooting behaviour can be visibly seen as you drive up alongside them on your way to the farm shop. Over time we will also supply pork and bacon in the shop.
As food producers we understand and know the importance of sustainability and farming for the future
All our meat is therefore fully traceable as it’s direct from our farm, prepared and packaged by our local award-winning butcher.
We process in the summer months when the cows are grazing fresh clover-rich pasture only which is the ideal diet for cheese processing milk.
During the summer the clover from the fields and blackberries from the hedgerows provide the bees with plenty of foraging.
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We are use all the farm yard manure, as a slow-release fertilizer to reduce the need for chemical fertilizer. All field spraying has been greatly reduced and even removed in most areas of our farm to ensure we maintain and improve the habitat of the most important inhabitant of our farm. The Bee.
