Growing business: Search is on for Ireland’s next young food entrepreneur

The search is on for Ireland’s next young food entrepreneur — but the up-and-coming breed of Dragons are being asked to go right back to basics and build their business from the soil up, writes Clodagh Finn.

In a sense, Grow2CEO and its search for 2019’s food entrepreneur is the perfect fit for our age, with its growing concern about the environmental damage done by modern food production, a point made forcibly last month by hundreds of young people who took to the streets to demand Government action on climate change.