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Savouring the very first homegrown potatoes or carrots is a magical feeling
Carry on gardening: 10 tips to keep your lockdown plants alive and well

So how are your potato plants doing? That basil you sowed back in the darkest days of the lockdown when it felt like the beginning of the end of the w(...)

While funding for tech companies in the Republic has slowed down since the onset of the crisis, it hasn’t dried up completely.
How start-ups can combat the Covid-19 investment crisis

In a perfect world this would be a time of celebration for the Irish tech sector. With a number of high-profile deals for indigenous companies since t(...)

Hban investors have ploughed more than €16.8 million into Irish start-ups last year.
Irish angel investors put more money into start-ups

Investors associated with the Halo Angel Business Network (Hban) put a combined €16.8 million into 66 Irish start-ups last year. This is a dramatic i(...)

Freshly harvested produce in the walled kitchen garden of Burtown House in Co Carlow. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Gardening 2020: even the smallest patch can help fight climate change

So it’s farewell to “the tenties”- or whatever you want to call the last decade – and hello to the “twenty-twenties”. But before we bid this dying dec(...)

Laura Healy and Andrew Kelly, whose homemade kombucha and kefir drinks led to their light-bulb moment
Kombucha: the chef and the scientist who went with their gut instinct

Ideas for new businesses come about in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways and for Laura Healy and Andrew Kelly, co-founders of drinks company Gut I(...)

Richard Morton, manager, Equity Investment Unit, AIB, left, Minister Heather Humphreys, Donnchadh Cullinan, manager, Growth Capital, Enterprise Ireland and Paul Finnerty, chairman of Yield Lab Europe, at the announcement of a new ’agtech fund’
Yield Lab Europe announces new €21m ‘agtech’ fund

Galway-based agritech accelerator programme Yield Lab Europe has announced a new €21 million venture capital fund backed by Enterprise Ireland and AIB(...)

John Lynam, chief technology officer and co-founder of Hexafly and Julian Seymour, syndicates manager at HBAN.
Irish start-up Hexafly looks to go global with insect farming

Hexafly, an Irish biotech start-up that has developed a new method of sustainable insect farming, is seeking to raise €10 million later this year to b(...)

The winner of the One2Watch competition will be given the opportunity to pitch their idea to 1,200 attendees at the forthcoming FutureScope conference in Dublin
Start-ups to battle it out to find Ireland’s best business idea

Four Irish start-ups have been selected to fight it out in a competition to find the country’s most scalable business idea. The winner of the One2Wat(...)