Christophe was born in France but moved to Ireland over 20 years ago. He has lived a very varied life and worked in many different areas, including tourism, IT, teaching yoga and now farming.
A
few years ago, he gave up a promising :) career managing a small IT
company, went to India, and come back only to settle on Clare Island
where we started the yoga retreat centre (and a
family). He still work with computers,
though, as he is the webmaster of a number of yoga and horse related websites.
Living at Macalla farm is an ongoing journey, and he is learning
from it every day.
Christophe loves cooking (he is French after all...) and he is passionate about organic food production. His past loves, writing and sailing are getting a new lease of life on the island, and he is developing new interests such as gardening and growing trees.
He has a keen interest in keeping and training horses using natural methods, and he is actively promoting Natural hoof care in Ireland and exploring the relationship between horses and self development.
Ciara Cullen
Ciara has been living at Macalla farm
since the early 1980. She learned farming from Michael Joe O; Malley, the
former owner of the farm.
She loves cooking, gardening and teaching.
Olivia Heal
Olivia Heal is the former manager of Drove Orchards on the North Norfolk coast. She completed Patrick Whitefield's Sustainable Land Use and Permaculture Design Course in Spring 2011. She first came to Macalla Ecofarn in 2006 and has since returned every year to cook, grow, learn and help with teaching. She has had various articles published in Permaculture Magazine. She also has an MA in French Literature from the University of Paris VIII and works as a translator.
