Home Grown set to return for season three
RTE’s popular horticultural series, Home Grown, will launch its third season in Spring 2025, following a successful second series that showcased Ireland’s diverse horticultural sector
Print9 September 2024
Series two of Home Grown, the TV series for RTE, concluded on Wednesday 27 March, completing seven half-hour programmes in which presenters Kitty Scully and Colm O’Driscoll met some of Ireland’s leading horticultural producers, and celebrated Ireland’s horticultural sector.
The presenters explored the full range of horticulture, visiting both large- and small-scale growers, inspirational gardens and service providers across the supply chain, and featuring other items of horticultural interest.
In all, 42 horticultural enterprises were visited, showcasing the broad range of disciplines, from fresh produce growers, ornamental growers, large and small enterprises, golf courses to large estate gardens and smaller specialist gardens.
Preparations for the Ryder Cup in 2027 at Adare Manor, Co Limerick; the journey of a plant from seed to finished product for garden centre sale; and the importance of attracting a younger generation into horticulture with a focus on education, young garden designers and young growers; the investment in time and care it takes to grow trees at a tree nursery; how social media is influencing a whole new generation of gardeners; the challenges of growing salad leaves outdoors in the field; how one producer in North County Dublin pivoted to growing chillies and garlic to save their business; and how a mushroom grower impacted by Brexit diversified from growing regular mushrooms to exotic mushrooms in order to stay in business.
The series garnered more than one and a half million viewers for the live programmes, which are now available on the RTE Player. The objective for Bord Bia in sponsoring the series was to raise the profile of horticulture, and feedback from the industry has been hugely positive.
Bord Bia has announced that Home Grown Series three is now in production and will be broadcast in Spring 2025.
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