March 12, 2021 2:00 pm
To love something, it doesn’t mean you have to be born into it – and that is certainly true for Alice Hodges.
The 25-year-old, who you may know from social media as ‘The Calf Girl’, will be taking over the
AgriLand Instagram account tomorrow (Saturday, March 12).
She hails from Cheshire, in the northwest of England, has lived and worked in New Zealand, and is now based in Co. Kildare, working as a contract calf rearer during the busy spring season and as a relief milker for two to three farmers for the rest of the year.
“I didn’t grow up in a farming family, but my neighbours were dairy farmers and I’ve always had a love of animals growing up,” Alice told