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How this couple quit their desk jobs to set up a coffee-roasting and vegetable-growing business on a Sligo sheep farm

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How this couple quit their desk jobs to set up a coffee-roasting and vegetable-growing business on a Sligo sheep farm

‘Life had begun to feel heavy’ for Italian- born Paola Bon after years of office work and she and her journalist husband Andrew wanted a better quality of life, so they moved from Colombia to his family farm – and set about making some changes

Paola Bon and Andrew Willis in their coffee roasting house on their farm in Beltra, Sligo. Photos by Denise Sweeney – Swarber Photography

It’s almost seven years since Paola Bon and her husband Andrew Willis moved from Colombia to Andrew’s family sheep farm in Beltra, Co Sligo and set up their vegetable and coffee businesses.

The couple, who have two young children, have also converted the farm to organic and will welcome their first certified organic lambs this spring.

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