As we started harvest on Monday, I was thinking about our workforce.  I always say our team, now about 30 people, are our greatest asset.  Everyone, and I mean everyone who works at Rathfinny, comes to work genuinely engaged in their job and, best of all, seemingly proud and committed to be working there.  I love it.

It’s always been important to us to build a local workforce and despite some scepticism from some quarters, we seem to be achieving just that.  It has been hard and we’ve had a few false starts, but now we are building up a team of local people who come not only to harvest in October, but to prune in January/February.