Harvest Festival, Autumn Workshops, Heritage Apple Trees & Life on the Farm
Harvest Festival - Sunday September 15th
September is an ideal time to showcase our vital conservation work, when our seed harvesting is in full flow...
International conference on Sustainable utilisation of manures and residue resources
Scientists from all over the world are in Wexford this week for the 17th international RAMIRAN conference which commenced this morning, 4 September.
Opening the...
Government publishes National Parks and Wildlife Services action plan
The Government has announced the details of a plan to renew the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Comprising 15 strategic actions, the plan will...
RHS reports less than a third of gardeners compost, with younger generation more inclined...
Two thirds of gardeners (67%) do not compost on their plot with younger gardeners more inclined than older age groups to start, the RHS...
EIP horticulture project doubles sales of organic produce
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett has published the final report for the Maximising Organic...
Government announces National Biodiversity Conference
The conference will mark a key milestone in the development of Ireland’s Fourth National Biodiversity Action Plan
Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform...
Student & Staff Showcase: Teagasc Horticultural College, Botanic Gardens
Teagasc Horticultural College, in the National Botanic Gardens, began the 2021 college year with a large intake of students across all of its courses....
Bursary programme launched at Loughry Campus | CAFRE
The 2020-21 Higher Education Food Bursary Programme was recently launched at CAFRE, Loughry Campus. A total of seventeen thousand pounds is available to students...
Neonicotinoids: update on risks to bees due early next year by EFSA
EFSA’s updated risk assessments on the potential risks to bees from neonicotinoid pesticides will be finalised in February 2018.
The assessments for clothianidin, imidacloprid, and...
Global Green 2017
An Oasis of Conviviality and Community
Cultivate, the sustainability collective based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, will once again be coordinating the Electric Picnic’s pop-up eco-village of...
