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Beotanics
Food and Beverage Services
Stoneyford, Kilkenny 1,605 followers
"Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.” William Cowper, 1785
About us
Beotanics is a family farm business group specialising in crop development, production and ingredient development of niche crops. The farm is located in Kilkenny Ireland abd has been an active agricultural location for almost 1,500 years as in its centre is an ancient Celtic farm settlement in Gaelic called a Rath. This settlement provides a poignant reminder of the importance of the local farming heritage. The group was founded by Patrick FitzGerald the seventh generation of FitzGerald to farm in the location. Beotanics operates plant based research facilities and a plant tissue culture laboratory along with plant production greenhouses and farm by FitzGerald Nurseries, NativaLand Portugal, Newly founded NativaLand Ireland. Beotanics innovates in food crop development and develops strategic JVs and partnerships with breeders, food industry and farmers to evolve its unique crop development strategies.
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http://www.beotanics.com
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- Industry
- Food and Beverage Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Stoneyford, Kilkenny
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1998
- Specialties
- sweet potato, yacon, wasabi, plant based food, crops, agriculture, and plant science
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Stoneyford, Kilkenny R95T384, IE
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We are working on many novel crops over the last 20 years many will never appear in our posts. One crop springs eternal every year in one form or other. Potato and our attachment to potato spans all the generations that walked the stoney soils of our family farm! Our location due to the presence of an early medium to large sized ring fort (Rath) is testament to at least 1200 to 1500 years of agricultural activity within 50 meters of these potato. Interestingly potato is only present as a food source in Ireland for a lesser % of that period of agriculture activity. We are launching these varieties availability, a mixture of old and slightly more modern, in 2025 in limited amounts in addition to our professional seed producer programme. Potato disease and viruses becoming more and more a big concern in Ireland. A reservoir of this virus and disease cross contamination can come from amateur garden or very small scale production of home or farm saved seed. We provide an alternative solution by injecting availability of high health Departmentnof Agriculture Certified seed into public production. Here you can see our high phytosanitary health seed potato production for a trial on 20 varieties of post famine potato varieties including old varieties like Skerry Champion and Skerry Blue. These flavoursome varieties are known to do well in the Irish environment and liked by Irish farming families since 1890s. We will make these varieties available to gardeners in Ireland through an introductory trade only project in 2025. This project is funded by Beotanics and FitzGerald Nurseries Ltd from our Irish laboratory and nursery resources #potato #ireland #local #sustainability
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Congratulations to Conor Bacon and Too Savage taking our Wasabi to a new level through an amazing unique 100% Irish made from Irish grown Wasabi Mayonnaise #wasabi #mayonnaise #Ireland
Managing director and Founder of Too Savage Ltd. Specialising in manufacturing and distribution of plant based products
Well Now, great news ! Too Savage just received a Great Taste star for the Wasabi Mayo ⭐️ Very proud seeing a plant-based Mayo receive a Great Taste award. So happy with this one for sure.
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Back home in Ireland after 6 days in USA Columbus and Chicago trips. The final show on US Trade Show tour #IFTFirst2024 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in McCormick Place Chicago Wednesday and a nice tour of #Chicago and its lake shore area on Thursday. Thanks also to networking evening Enterprise Ireland USA at The Kerryman Irish Pub Chicago. Quite an intensive food ingredient show packed with some fantastic innovative companies from around the world and great people from the Irish diaspora. Great venue, great connections, great show in a great city. #Iftfirst24
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Beotanics is a family farm company founded, funded and led by Patrick and Noirin FitzGerald and is the proud 100% share holder of this innovative horticultural company FitzGerald Nurseries Ltd . The world is changing and so too is the focus of the major benefits horticulture brings to food and agriculture outputs. You cannot disconnect the huge benefits of plant based agriculture from the health of humans and the insects, birds, fish and animals we share this planet with. As a growing company investing heavily in research we are not ashamed of our work we are proud of it and will strive to not have it minimised or trivialised! #horticulture
We will soon remove the flowers from these Agapanthus Winter Storm but wow they are buzzing with bumble need in this house! I am glad we left them mature, it has given added value to the nursery and farm in a totally different dimension especially when added to our biological control policy the bee population are safe feeding from our young plant crops! One more thing about Agapanthus Winter Storm as it is deciduous it is easily protected from more severe cold in parks and gardens by mulching. If anyone has doubts about the huge benefits of well-chosen exotic garden species in the Irish landscape, look no further. These Agapanthus plants are tough, resilient, and offer low cost versus benefits in the urban landscape. The 9cm young plants, purposefully left with flowers for August deliveries to our clients, are now buzzing with bumble bees, filling the empty summer gap with abundant flowers to feed from. #garden #landscape #feedthebees #Agapanthus
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We are looking forward to some great presentations and information dissemination at Food Innovation Summit hosted by Enterprise Ireland at Croke Park 2024 https://lnkd.in/eN2ttBDB #food #innovation
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FitzGerald Nurseries Ltd 34 years of horticultural propagation experience founded in 1990 as an alternative farm business and original company of the now family SME business group. #farming #innovation #cultivatinginnovation
For several hundred years this and thousands of Irish family farms have had smallholder potato crops either to feed a family and or earn income to supplement a mixed farming model. This diversified production was critical in safeguarding productivity, diversity, environmental resilience and sustainability of local Irish potato crop varieties. However home farmed potato is a very rare sight these days and diversity of varieties based on local preferences is vastly reduced. We use our farming history and our acquired plant propagation skills to evolve a new service and contribution to Irish Agriculture all self taught. I do not think any of the generations of those 250 years might have e imagined this picture and video! One wonders what if any farming will take place in this spot in another 250 years. However we have clear evidence through a farm settlement known as a ringfort or Rath very much intact after approx 1500 years. So even before that 250 years of potato cultivation farmers lived, slept, ate, drank and worked the land just 250 metres from this spot. The mind wanders to imagine the daily workload of that period and what might be the future? Has the potato done its bit for Western Europe and we will evolve other food sources? #farming #sustainability #potato #food #crops
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Sharing a wasabi moment as we bravely bring our selected Wasabi varieties into their second and final “Irish Summer” . A Saturday morning ode to our Wasabi crop. The learnings have been many, the failures have been more, to this Wasabi crop I say never as good seen before, let’s hope we get through the coming season, with no major furore. If this happens and if all remains good, in coming months we will deliver Wasabi rhizome galore! #Wasabi #Ireland
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