I set up a 2.5 acre sustainable market garden. What started off as hobby gardening is now scaled up to about 2.5 acres in producing fruit and vegetables. I wondered if it was possible to produce food in a sustainable way, both environmentally and financially, and as efficiently as possible. I completed the ideas academy with Social Entrepreneurs Ireland which really helped me understand the problems that I see with our food system and how to best use my skills to try to solve them.

I gave up cows milk 2 years ago and switched to Irish-made (Flahavans) oat milk. I still eat cheese and eggs, it’s just the milk in my teas and coffees I swapped. I worked out that I’ve saved 624kg in carbon emissions from the switch. That’s the same as planting 45 trees. That’s from making an unnoticeable change in habits.