While out in the countryside wandering the bog lands, we heard the tractor start in the neighbouring property. We knew they were harvesting peat and we waited for the tractor hauling a load of cut turf to come down the same narrow road we had parked on. We talked to two young fellows - one the boss, the other a camera-shy helper. Their enthusiasm was touching. They even insisted we take a 'sample' piece of turf home to Canada with us. These local guys work hard to harvest the peat and sell it in their community. He figured his truck load would sell for about 300 euros. It is weather-dependent - they have only managed one cut this year. A good year would be three cuts.
They also told us that there are much bigger industrial operations that can harvest far more in a cutting than them. We had already seen fields with huge swaths of cleared bog.
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