Being the Beaver
Without wanting to overstate the obvious: beavers are amazing landscape engineers. For those new to the subject, these small, vegetarian, water-loving animals play a...
Local Plants for a Sustainable Future
Running a tree or plant nursery in Ireland is not an easy task. Climate change, scarcity of staff, transport prices and mounting overheads are...
Nature helps us Heal
Social therapeutic horticulture is the process of using gardens, allotments, plants and plant materials to improve mental and physical health. Part of the role...
My Bord Bia Portal
Bord Bia recently launched an innovative new client portal called ‘My Bord Bia’, an important online resource for businesses, providing one central point of...
Growing for Nature – There’s no better time to align your business to biodiversity...
In Ireland, as reported in the National Strategy for Horticulture 2023-2027, the amenity horticulture industry (amenity and other non-edible products) was worth approximately €100...
Slow the Flow – Climate Solutions through Water and Land Management
Imagine if the solutions to climate breakdown were staring us in the face all this time – we just hadn’t yet seen them. Instead...
Teagasc Report from the flower trials
The annual Flower Trials, held in the Netherlands in June during week 24, are open days for commercial young plant producers. Teagasc advisor Dónall...
Sustainable Potato Breeding
Across Europe, over 50 per cent of potato land area is infested with the potato cyst nematode (PCN) species, Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pallida,...
Opportunity Knocks
It’s time for horticulture leaders to step up and embrace the industry changes that biodiversity loss and the climate crisis make ever more pressing.
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Awestruck & Inspired
Spanning an area of 242 hectares, the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) approved International Horticultural Exhibition 2024 is currently underway in Chengdu, China,...