Second Nature Oils
Drumeen Farm is one of the oldest existing certified organic farms in Ireland where we grow, cold press and bottle our organic rapeseed and infused oils. We also cold press organic unrefined flaxseed oil on our family farm in Co. Kilkenny.
Kitty’s mother, Charlotte, was almost constantly thinking about food. She grew her own fruit and vegetables, made her own bread, produced her own meat and dairy produce and had laying chickens. Practically nothing was bought in. Grapes, pears, plums, hazel nuts, peas, runner beans, beetroots, asparagus, cucumbers among many other produce all came fresh from the garden, dug or picked only moments before being turned into a delicious, wholesome and healthy meal. Food was 100% traceable and fresh where Kitty grew up …. really traceable and really fresh!
The connection between the health of the environment, the soil, the animal, the plant and the human was taught to Kitty & her siblings the same way they were taught math and English spelling.
In 2006, Ben and Charlotte bought an oilseed press specifically designed to press a high quality culinary oil fresh for the house and to expel rape meal for their livestock. At that time Kitty was working in refugee and food camps in Ethiopia, where the importance of sustainable food production is most prominently evident.
Kitty decided on moving back to the family farm having been away for nearly two decades to start a sustainable food enterprise. At the time, culinary rapeseed oil wasn’t being produced in the Republic of Ireland. It hadn’t really been heard of here at that time. Now there are many conventional oils on the Irish market, but Second Nature still produces Ireland’s only premium organic cold pressed rapeseed oil.
