REVEALED: Brothers living in Tipperary to feature on new RTÉ series

Home Grown returns to RTÉ One with a brand new third series celebrating Irish horticulture.

Industry advocates and presenters Kitty Scully and Colm O'Driscoll once again travel the country in this popular series, searching for stories that highlight the very best in the Irish horticulture industry. 

Home Grown series 3 explores everything from innovative growing techniques to the extraordinary people shaping Ireland's green spaces, profiling small producers, and highlighting the generosity of community gardening for a good cause. 

This seven part series also goes behind the scenes at Ireland's largest horticulture festival Bord Bia Bloom, highlighting the resilience and ingenuity of Ireland's horticulture industry, looks at the intrigues of creating habitats for animals, and explores many other stories that inspire growth and connection. 

In the first episode, Kitty meets Limerick brothers John and Colm Galvin of Living Woodlands, based in Tipperary, who are using an adaptive version of the internationally recognised Miyawaki Method of afforestation and ecosystem to build complex and biodiverse living woodlands.  

This method allows them to establish urban biodiversity havens on unused green spaces and larger spaces, and in rural areas.

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Kitty says: "With twenty years experience in Ireland's horticultural sector, and my third season working on Home Grown, I  continue to be amazed by the industry's ongoing growth and innovation.

"This season the sheer diversity of horticulture in Ireland truly stood out.

"From the grandeur of historic castle gardens, meticulously maintained for generations, using time honoured techniques, and inspiring inner city parks landscaped using repurposed materials; to cutting edge rooftop gardening projects harnessing AI driven robotic weeding technology to maximise efficiency and shorten food supply chains."

"The series highlights not only how horticulture shapes our daily lives, through food, public spaces and biodiversity, but also how every citizen plays a role in protecting and enhancing this dynamic, yet often overlooked, industry. This season is a powerful reminder that horticulture is woven into every aspect of our world."