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How did it all begin for Velvet Cloud? Michael (Aisling’s husband and co-founder of Velvet Cloud) grew up on a sheep and dairy farm here, in Rockfield, Co Mayo. We met studying ag science in University College Dublin (UCD). After college we went to live and work within the food industry in France and Italy for about 10 years. While there we noticed the strong prevalence of sheep dairy products on the shelves and in restaurants. We wondered why with so many sheep in Ireland there were no sheep dairy products available. We returned to Michael’s home farm, but at that point we weren’t making much money from traditional sheep farming. ....