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,...
The Clash – Many fought the law, but the law won
If you’re short on entertainment, I suggest you read the Dáil debate on the new Nature Restoration Law from 12 June last (www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2024-06-12/5).
This...
Buzzing in Dublin 8
Bee8 – an inner city beekeeping project – is an environmentally and socially sustainable social enterprise managed by Dublin 8’s Robert Emmet Community Development...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Harnessing Crab Shells for Greener Crops
In 2018, I joined the company Celignis, a biomass lab located in Limerick, Ireland. Celignis CEO Daniel Hayes started the company based on his...
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.
Often...
Tackling the Wind
Storms have become a more familiar feature of our weather pattern in recent years. Whilst severe wind impact can be obvious when it comes...