Thousands of large logs are drying in a long pile towering over the country lane that leads to the Cotter family farm near Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick. This is where I meet 21-year-old Nick Cotter, who offers me tea and biscuits at the kitchen table with a view of the farm’s lambs out the window.  Trees and sheep are the foundations of the business from which five family members over two generations, three full-time employees and additional part-time workers now make a living. The land on the Cotter family farm is typical of many others in quantity and quality, yet it…

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