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‘Ballerina Farm’ influencer leaves Utah, takes her 8 children to Ireland: “A very big adventure”
The prominent ‘mom-fluencer’ Hannah Neeleman has flown with her husband and children to Cork.

The influencer Hannah Neeleman, better known under the social-media handle ‘Ballerina Farm’, caught her millions of followers by surprise this month when she upped sticks from her Utah farm and took her family to Ireland.
Neeleman revealed that she, husband Daniel and their kids were leaving on a “very big adventure” and wouldn’t return to the US “for some time”. The family’s destination was Cork, where she and Daniel have enrolled on a culinary course at Ballymaloe Cookery School.
Who is Hannah Neeleman, aka ‘Ballerina Farm’?
A former dancer who trained at New York’s prestigious Juillard School, Neeleman has become an influential social-media figure since she and Daniel ditched city life to buy a farm in the mountains of northern Utah in 2018. She and Daniel live at their rural home, which they have named Ballerina Farm, with their eight children.
A ‘mom-fluencer’ with 10 million followers each on Instagram and TikTok, as well as two million subscribers on YouTube, Neeleman has emerged as a prominent ‘trad wife’ content creator. Taking to her well-followed social-media profiles, she shares her traditional, rural lifestyle as a homemaker.
Under the Ballerina Farm brand, Neeleman also sells a range of products “from our farm to your door”. According to the business’s website, items you can buy include “delicious meats, handmade baked goods, delicious pantry staples, fresh flowers, sourdough bread products, and thoughtful homewares”.
Describing herself in her Ballerina Farm website biography, Neeleman says: “I wear many hats – mom, wife, cook, business owner, content creator, lover of God and all things butter.”
Ballerina Farm goes to Ireland
On January 8, Neeleman raised eyebrows among her social-media followers when she announced her family’s departure for Ireland. “Today, our family is headed out on a very big adventure,” she said in a video message.
“We will be away for some time, which means there has been a lot of packing and organizing to keep things running at the farm while we’re away.”
In a subsequent post after the family’s arrival in Ireland, Neeleman wrote: “Daniel and I moved the gang across the pond for the next little while to attend Chef school.” Alongside the message, she shared a video of herself and Daniel donning their chef uniforms.
Neeleman, who has since posted a number of updates from Ireland, including videos showing her followers how to make a quiche and scones, has shared that her time at culinary school “is teaching me and inspiring me tremendously”.
“We are co-parents, co-CEOs, co-diaper changers”
Neeleman’s Ireland stay comes after she last year launched a staunch public defense of her lifestyle and her role in her marriage, having been profiled in a Times article that asked whether she represented a “hammer blow for feminism”.
In a video message on social media in July, Neeleman said: “We had a reporter come into our home to learn more about our family and business. We thought the interview went really well. Very similar to the dozens of interviews we had done in recent memory.
“We were taken back, however, when we saw the printed article - which shocked us, and shocked the world by it being an attack on my family and my marriage, portraying me as oppressed, with my husband being the culprit. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
“The greatest day of my life was when Daniel and I were married 13 years ago. Together we have built a business from scratch, we’ve brought eight children into this world and have prioritized our marriage all along the way.
“We are co-parents, co-CEOs, co-diaper changers, kitchen cleaners and decision makers. We are one. And I love him more today than I did 13 years ago.”
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