Our Journey Towards Self Sufficiency
Here is my story, how I got here and what I’m up to. In September 2012, after a lot of searching around Dublin, myself and my partner bought a house with some land in the Dublin mountains in the valley of Glenasmole and set about making it into a smallholding.

Our goal was to be as self sufficient as we could, both from a food point of view and energy, and combining it with modern living. It’s a constant work in progress, with trials and errors, but I’m using my blog to track our progress and if anyone else is trying to do something similar, I hope this helps them by learning from our mistakes. We are now growing and producing far more produce that we can use.

So we decided to sell it to people who are interested in eating great natural food reared and grown organically on our farm. This produce includes several different types of raw honey, beef, pork, eggs, yogurt, milk and some fruit & veg.

I’m also a beefarmer producing lots of pure Irish raw honey with my bees around South Dublin and North Wicklow. When I moved up to the smallholding I had only started beekeeping about a month and planned on keeping only a couple of colonies to supply us with honey.

Now in January 2021, I’m going through the winter with around 180 colonies, fingers crossed most of them make it into spring 2021.

Éire Local Business

Ollys Farm

Ollys Farm

Login