A woman from the Cavan Meath border recently put pen to paper and recounted her blessings as a result of life on the farm.
Margaret Farrelly began selling free range eggs in the early 1980s to supplement income from her husband Leo's small farm.
Clonarn Clover started with 150 free range hens and today the business has a flock of 160,000 hens, producing and packing 48 million eggs a year.
Margaret's new book 'Free Range Blessings' is the story of love, loss, passion and gratefullness.
She told Shannonside Northern Sound that "there wasn't enough hours in the day" to write the book until now.