In Good Company: Flying Tumbler Featured in the National LEADER Booklet
Flying Tumbler features on the front cover and page 11 of the national LEADER in Ireland booklet — in the very good company of rural projects from all over the country. Here's our small chapter in it, and where the farm is up to.
We're proud to share that Flying Tumbler has been featured in the national LEADER in Ireland booklet — on the front cover and page 11 — celebrating rural projects backed by the LEADER programme and launched this month at the LDCN event in Brussels.
What struck us most wasn't our own page, but the company we're keeping. The booklet is a brilliant snapshot of what's being built across the country: Wild Ireland, the wildlife sanctuary up in Donegal; the Scattery Island Ferry carrying visitors out into the Shannon Estuary in Clare; RIP.ie in Louth; Leahy's Open Farm in Cork; and the Watergate Theatre in Kilkenny — dozens of businesses and community projects, every one of them people building something lasting on home ground.
Our own chapter is a simple one. We're converting old agricultural buildings on the family farm at Larch Grove, Nurney, into a bonded warehouse for maturing Irish whiskey — farm diversification in the truest sense, giving old ground a new future. We're about halfway through the project now, and watching it come together has been one of the real joys of the year.
Sincere thanks to the LEADER programme and to Carlow County Development Partnership for believing in the vision.