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A change for the better

Hedges play an important role on farms across the country

Good news for the countryside - Preparing for what’s to come

St Brides Fleet Street (exterior)

Good news for the countryside: Grateful hearts this Harvest

Conference pears from this year’s harvest in Loughgall. (Pic: Freelance)

Known by their fruit

Even sand can pose and unexpected hazard

Good News for the countryside: When the unexpected happens!

Marts used to be about livestock, but now they provide vital health checks

Good news for the countryside: The heart of the matter

Potatoes in full flower. (Pic: Freelance)

A different kind of famine

Good news for the countryside: A milestone worth celebrating!

Trees feature quite a lot in the Bible

Good News for the countryside: Gospel truths in the trees

It's good to get away for a rest

Good News for the countryside: Everyone needs a good rest

Tractors are always a big draw no matter what age you are

Good News for the countryside: The blessing of a good covering

An additional item, also common on farms, would be a set of jump leads. (Pic: Andy Wills)

Making the right connection

Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland

Presbyterian Moderator describes the day that changed everything

Orchard spraying in spring has been very difficult due to the excessive rainfall (David Johnston)

Good news for the countryside: Tough times – lessons from Job

Collecting silage in the fields near Ballycastle in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. (Pic: Steve Allen Photo)

What is it all for?

Every fortnight people from a farming background, or who have a heart for the countryside in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, offer a personal reflection on faith and rural life. They hope that you will be encouraged by it

Good news for the countryside: We all need hope
Every fortnight people from a farming background, or who have a heart for the countryside in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, offer a personal reflection on faith and rural life. They hope that you will be encouraged by it.
By The Newsroom

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland's Dromore Presbytery stand at last year's Balmoral Show.

PCI prepares to welcome show goers to their stand

Good news for the countryside column: Whatever the weather, there’s hope

Caring fathers are ready to lavish their love on their son or daughter

Childhood memories of a caring father

Cow being milked in the AFBI Hillsborough milking robot, with head adjacent to the robot feed station.Pic: AFBI

Good news for the countryside column: The multi-functioning arm

The tiled floor of the stunning Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping centre

Good news for the countryside - A journey of discovery

The storms that come

Royal Gala apples on a hedgerow system in the authors orchard. Pic: David Johnston

Fruit that doesn’t disappoint

In agriculture hope is always somewhere in the thinking and planning

Planting seeds of hope

What is better than the smell of pine trees in the forest on a winter’s day walk? Pic: Woodland Trust

The rings of a tree

Tyres aren't the only thing on the farm that can be under pressure.

Pressure is just for tyres

Jesus’ Welcome: From the manger and from the saleyard
Every fortnight people from a farming background, or who have a heart for the countryside in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, offer a personal reflection on faith and rural life. They hope that you will be encouraged by it.
By The Newsroom

Lifelong learning from the Good Shepherd

'Hit the diff' is a popular tune in many households

Hit the diff…and pray

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Harvest time is a busy period for farmers and for churches it is time to give thanks

Good news for the countryside: Harvest time- time is short

Good news for the countryside: A forecast we can trust fully

Due to fog, Florence had lost sight of the shoreline.

The everyday challenges of foggy days

Good new for the countryside column - Striving for excellence in all that we do

You may have your allotment or garden on earth; but have you a garden in heaven too?

Do-It-Yourself farming

A reminder in the Lough

The road to Quintin Bay

Maize harvest underway at Loughgall last October. Picture: David Johnston

Maize plant isn't the only amazing thing

Fly strike is a problem on farms during warm weather

The Maggot Problem!

Walter Waddell who died when he was 15

All life is precious

Cattle on parade at a previous Ballymoney Show

Show season 2023 gets underway across NI

Opening our doors

At last year’s Balmoral Show, (left to right), Timothy Hamill of Granville Ecopark, Rev Kenny Hanna, PCI’s Rural Chaplain, and Wilbert Murdock of Burkes of Cornascriebe.

Balmoral: Blue-sky thinking on show

Greens on multi-tier growing racks at a Dubai vertical farm

Supplying what we need

Modern farming possesses a vast array of herbicides to help weed control.

The ‘miracle’ weed killer

Slemish Mountain.

The swineherd

There are signs of new life in the hedgerows

Wonderful spring

A rock and a safe place

View from a wet and boggy Pigeon Rock Mountain

Doing things differently in 2023

Red wellied feet digging the veg patch over with a garden fork

Carbon and other footprints

The dark nights of winter can be a bleak time

The coming light

A farm sign

What’s in a name?

Rev Kenny Hanna, Marcus McCollum and Rev John Torrens, Image: Rebecca McConnell

'How's the Form?' event for farmers

When is the right time?

Introducing the new rural chaplain

Pictured at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, which is taking place in Belfast are (left to right) the Convener of the Council for Mission in Ireland Very Rev Dr Frank Sellar, Acting Council Secretary, Rev Jim Stothers and PCI's Chaplaincy Secretary, Rev Robert Bell, with PCI's new rural chaplain Rev Kenny Hanna.

First ‘Rural Chaplain’ is appointed by Presbyterian Church in Ireland