LispoppleApples
Lispopple Apples
Denise Buckley is based in Lispopple, Swords, where she has a 16-acre apple orchard and 40+ acres of outdoor courgettes, pumpkins and squash. A passionate horticulturalist, she also grows winter and summer flowers. Autumn is unsurprisingly, her busiest time of the year and the run up to Halloween is particularly busy but the work starts early in the year with her own seeds planted and brought on in the polytunnels before being planted outside.
This photostory focused on the produce, capture on a day where the rain swept through the orchard and fields every few minutes. The squash and pumpkins had been picked and were ready to be packed, with a riot of colour and shapes on display from each variety. The quiet calm of the orchard, with partially filled boxes stacked around under the tress, still heavy with the years crop still to be picked; belied the pace of work going on elsewhere.
