Mount Allen Eco Tours

Ukrainian refugees living in Roscommon have been growing their own food with the support of local farmer Tommy Earley @EcoAllen . I harvested potatoes with them this week for a report airing tomorrow on @RTERadio1 @RTECountryWide

Thoroughly enjoyed yesterday evening's chat in Dowra's old Courthouse. We talked about the unique and rich landscape of west Cavan and Leitrim around the catchment of #UpperShannon and #LoughAllen. A beautiful part of the country. Andy King and Tommy Earley in action below.

The community sowed the oat seed in April and today we harvested them with a meitheal on @EcoAllen Farm on the shores of Lough Allen. There was music, song, dance, homemade food, farming advice and lots of chat and laughter. sowingtheseedproject.com @HeritageHubIRE @creativeirl

A mighty morning making straw hats on @EcoAllen farm with the best of company. People form all across Ireland learning to make the hats and get the Mumming tradition reignited in their communities. Sowingtheseedproject.com #HeritageWeek2022 @HeritageHubIRE @leitrimcoco

We visited with our @SmallholdersEU project recently. Such a wonderful place @EcoAllen

The @SmallholdersEU transnational partner meeting took place in Ireland this week. The partners enjoyed a wonderful tour of Tommy Earley's farm in Mountallen @EcoAllen

Minister @McConalogue & @FrankFeighan sowing sunflower seeds & potatoes with some men from Ukraine 🇺🇦 with social farmer Tommy Earley @EcoAllen & Andrew our @Lairdhse06 #socialfarming development officer on a visit to @leitrimdevco today. @agriculture_ie @HealthyIreland

@EdwinaGuckian ...a little bit of writing about the oat sowing at @EcoAllen with Tommy Earley. Hope it might be worth a look perhaps. hawthornhillfarm.com/2022/05/23/sow…

Next Dawn Chorus walk on this coming Saturday 14th. Text to book your place! 😊

All welcome to our next Sowing the Seed event this Sunday 2pm at @EcoAllen outside Drumshanbo. We’ll be learning how to make the súgán rope and seating chairs. Come earlier at 12pm to sow the organic oat seeds on the farm with The Mummers’ Join @creativeirl @HeritageHubIRE

Getting back into the swing of it for season 2022! Delighed to kick off our early morning nature walks + dawn chorus again, first date 09/04/22. Text to book your spot!

Our farm runs along the Arigna River to where it joins Lough Allen. Such a tranquil place on a sunny evening

Just posted a video @ Knockvicar instagram.com/p/CQoyza2hMHl/…

One of my favorite parts of the Farm Trail.. that transition from farm to lake. #loughallen #lakeshore #farmtour #roscommon #leitrim #sliabhaniarainn #drumshanbo #arigna #sustainabletourism #wildatlanticway #droneireland

Come on Irish Summer, don’t let us down! 🤞 #visitroscommon #WildAtlanticWay @Sust_Travel_Ire #leitrimtourism @UnaBhanTourism @leitrimtourism

As the summer slowly arrives we thought it might be nice to organize a tour focused specifically on biodiversity, viewing all the birds and flowers that are currently on show! #visitroscommon #visitsligo #leitrimtourism #sustainabletourism #longfordtourism #WildAtlanticWay

Due to the success of our first two outings, we’ve decided to run the #DawnChorus events again next weekend. It is a wonderful opportunity to listen to beautiful birdsong as we walk though the various habitats on our farm. And as an rare treat we may even hear a #curlew sing!

Thank you to all who attended our #DawnChorus tour early this morning, it was wonderful to be able to run events again. We have a small number of places available on tomorrow’s event at 4.30am. Please contact 0862536672 to book your place! #visitroscommon #leitrimtourism

40kg of oat seed gone in the post today to people all across Ireland. We spent the whole morning packing envelopes for ye to grow your own strawboy hats! If you’d like to take part in Sowing the Seed project check out sowingtheseedproject.com @creativeirl @leitrimcoco

The dawn chorus has begun and with the easing of restrictions on outdoor attractions from the 26th we’ve decided to hold our first event of the year. #ecotour #dawnchorus #sustainabletravel #roscommon #leitrim #leitrimtourism #visitroscommon #birdwatchireland