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Agriculture/Livestock News
Show garden designers win gold at Bord Bia Bloom
Andrew Christopher Dunne won the overall large show garden award for Hit Pause, The Caragh Nurseries Garden at this year’s Bord Bia Bloom. And Alan Rudden won best in category medium show garden for the Savills Urban Oasis Garden. That means they’ve each won four and seven gold medals respectively at this event. The gold-medal-winning show garden designers who are new to Bord Bia Bloom included Niall Deacon for his Eureka Garden sponsored by Solus Light Bulbs, Sean…
farmland biodiversity
Agriculture/Livestock News
Virtual Festival of Farmland Biodiversity
The National Biodiversity Data Centre is hosting a month-long (virtual) Festival of Farmland Biodiversity for May 2022. The Festival of Farmland Biodiversity focuses on challenges to addressing the biodiversity crisis across much of the farmed landscape in Ireland. The purpose of the festival is to encourage a more positive engagement around the topic of biodiversity and farmland and to highlight some of the ways that farmers are working to support…