“Every weekend, I would shove my lawyer suit into my boots and milk the cows.”

Beatrix Killeen, 31, a farmer ambassador for the National Dairy Council, finds ways to balance her corporate job with life on a dairy farm and incorporate her Nigerian, Hungarian and Irish heritage into her cooking.

Beatrix Killeen. Photo: Claire Keogh

“The year I graduated from college and began my career in corporate law, I was helping my husband transform our family’s old sheep farm halfway across the country into a modern dairy farm.

Milking cows on a farm, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, feels like returning to your Hungarian grandmother’s kitchen. That’s the only way I can really switch off.

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