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Watch: Manor farm celebrates 250 years in business at Bloom
Manor Farm is celebrating its 250th year in business this summer, with a specially designed garden at the Bord Bia Bloom 2025 festival.
The garden is called 'Manor Farm – 250 Years of Taste and Tradition', and has been developed by award-winning landscape designer Tunde Perry.
Manor Farm CEO, Cathal Garvey
The garden tells the story of Manor Farm through thoughtful planting, historical references and sustainable design.
CEO of Manor Farm, Cathal Garvey told Agriland: 'We're 250 years old this year, the oldest food company in Ireland. It's a significant milestone. A good bit of work has gone into this.
'The key thing for us, we are invested in sustainability in Manor Farm. We are going to relocate this garden up to Shercock where we're based.'
'This company has evolved in so many ways over the last 250 years. When you go through the history it's absolutely fascinating. We are basically doing 1 million chickens a week. There is nobody in Ireland who hasn't eaten some of our chicken,' Garvey added.
Manor Farm
Visitors enter the garden through a train track inspired path, which is made from recycled railway sleepers.
The path symbolises the time when live chickens were shipped unaccompanied by train to Dublin markets in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The garden also contains a biodiverse landscape with a wildflower meadow, native trees and shrubs as well as a regenerative oat and wheat field, a nod to both farming roots and a sustainable future.
A water feature symbolises the company's home in Co. Cavan, known for its 365 lakes.
At the heart of the garden, is 'Manor Street', a creative copper and metal sculpture echoing the original urban market setting. A small café-style table invites visitors to pause and reflect.
The garden also features sensory planting, including hazel, elder, hawthorn, birch and fragrant herbs, linked to Manor Farm recipes via QR codes.
A colour palette of blues and yellows subtly pays tribute to Manor Farm's Swedish ownership under the Scandi Standard Group.
