About DBN chop up into blog posts

(dynamic) About Design By Nature (DBN Ire)

B2B A random selection of our activities

Proven BuzOlogy

Authenticity

Design by Nature continually has to prove our authenticity in the face of an unregulated native seed market, dishonest component substitution, false labeling, and according to Mathew Jebb,were as “victim of our own success” (link).

This section dives deeper to show off our performance, honesty, reliability, quality standards . We show off examples of our capability, scaling to meet B2B client’s needs. We also explain our unique understanding of Business‘, our reaction time’  mixed with Ecology, or as we say BuzOlogy

BuzOlogy

In this new world ‘Small is Beautiful’. How can a small micro business ever effect the worlds global giants in the multi billion seed trade? Is it? In the very same way a small beetle carrying a disease wiped out the mighty Elms trees that once graced this land.?

BuzOlogy, our term for business n’ ecology would suggest, its one way, but very a very drastic way, another approach is in how fungi work, tiny minute roots attach to another species tiny roots and dictate how that other species grows. Just like your tummy.

What this gotta do with anything?

BuzOlogy in the Age of Nature is understanding the pattern of nature and applying else where, to provide healing nature services. Take flying machines, any type, they imitate birds, ships and submarines, even helicopters propeller wings copy those of scyamore seeds, its true observing and working with nature that we pass on our experience, we can adopt the most resource conserving, most efficient, ‘lean’ shapes for your project. Nor do you have to know how, just to be able to act once we identify the patters that apply.

This micro SME has a history of success, ” we are on top of a small heap, that is our markets size” we achieved many ‘firsts’ to market’. Our first mover advantage is akin to pioneer plant species in pioneer ecologies. Understanding the strategies that plants employ when thriving in the most difficult conditions has created amazing market opportunities for us.

A single very successful familiar pattern we see in ecologies is when rudimentary plant species arrive after soil disturbance. Take Dock weeds, when the germinate or grow from roots, the leaf rises up and quickly spread out, growing away from the centre of itself, more so the next leaves that emerge are broader, to smother all the light from all the tiny seedling around them, making them the dominant long term species in that spot. But if many species arrive together, and support and create there own ecology together symbiotically, then the dock gets very little chance. (unless the conditions are perfectly ideal for the Dock). Instead the myriad of species acts to in unison and that’s an action that can suppress the dominance of the dock and other rudimentary weeds. At DBN, we learn from nature and apply those patterns to our solutions. We understand Growth like few others.

Brand Managers Nightmare

When we work with your business, supporting your team, our support evolves into the exact, on time direct action that you need to succeed when delivering ‘on time’and ‘to Spec. We understand the many rudimentary conditions new markets or infrastructure activities create, where problems can grow if unchecked. Our specialisation is in how to create ecologies from a bag of products and services. Design , advice, seed or plants, that we have a comprehensive understanding of how they behave in all situations, be it, seed in the hands of a child eager to sow seeds to help nature, or when sown in a garden or across the landscape to look pritty.

We know the triggers, are highly skilled in spacial awareness, just like roots, we scope first, acting only to spend resources when a goal is realisable. This busines not only sell pioner species we are a pioneer business 

A Brand Managers Nightmare

There’s many a famous brand over the years who teamed up with design By Nature. From Keelings, a leader in horticulture, who trusted us with their brand across all media, to Intel. Where we turned the message upside down to become ‘Inside Intel’, as our wildflower meadows looked great in the media, when wrapped around the Leixlip on-site biodiversty Project, Inside Intel!

From Vodafone to Super Quinn back in the day. All blue-chips use our intel and products, Adverts for ESB solar farms depict the wildflowers, we delivered for the ESB’s first nature friendly energy farm. NPWS use our species on many Projects. Although not the remit of NPWS, we invite the NPWS, OPW, DAFM most senior secretaries to the minister to visit us for un-official approval of our seedhouse, methods an conservation ethics. Past, EU ministers of agriculture have visited our premises, as we are a total anomaly in the seed industry, yet prioritised by EU policy which understands the very difficult nature of our industry, for we protect and save near and endangered species otherwise neglected by Eu legislation and Gov’ policy that can only afford to safe guard food , medical, fibre or ‘Proved high use’plant parts industry, such as allergy free packing and pillow stuffings, dried or fresh flowers and Perfumes. The rest of the endangered and not so’ species, we conserve by Utilising them to the best of their ability, not only in performance in our seed mixtures, we also sell plant parts such as dried stalks which go as part components to make bug hotels. Nothing goes to waste in this the Age of Nature.

Can this Market leader help you grow?

Stringent Quality Control:

DBN is continually improving with annual re-investment. We are a certified DAFM seed house and introduced wildflower seed testing to DAFM’s own seed testing station, for they had no experience. Today they have a competency which our business helped them develop.

In our industry our competitors have sent representatives to acces our authenticity , just one example, Westland Horticulture and it’s subsiduary Unwins Seeds sent a senior Sales rep from Unwins to check us out. Westlands senior management can verify the comprehensive investment Design By Nature have installed across all stages of production, since their visit. We discussed if they could sell our native Irish species instead of the UK species they import at present. We even suggested alternative suppliers for their wildflower mixtures, such is our commitment to native species and no imports. We even said we would help the alternative supplier set up their crops, and we did.

Compliance and Risk Management: We are legally compliant as explained on this website, please contact. To aid risk management we pay regard to B2C then B2B in our safety statement for seed mixtures and with each individual species where appropriate. more so, on specific issues we are solution specialists, Royal Dutch Shell and Murphy were very impressed with how we managed to sow and plant dangerous wet ground that was mission critical to be planted by planning deadlines on the infamous Corrib gas pipeline Onshore project.

Reliability and Consistency: The team are, but the Boss, is neither, a small price to pay! When choosing this business for such important attributes to assist you in your journey to protect nature. We don’t charge for Reliability and Consistency, but we would ‘bee’ outta business without it.

We have two different sites or farms for crops of most main species we grow seeds from, so if weather or circumstances destroy a crop, we have back up. Consistency is both in service and product before sowing, and in the performance when sown and in support. Sandro is well known for being abrupt with customers who ask questions already answered on ours and many other wildflower webs. Yet if a question arises that the answer is unknown, unclear or complicated, he holds the hands of every customer who contacts us, be they blue chip multi-national or some one sowing a wee patch of flora. But he does get consistently belligerent with time wasters. He’s famous for it, especially when speaking in public, he regularly openly challenges the green washers, and time-wasters in our sector, from explaining why re-wilding is not for small places, its for entire bio-regions like the west of Ireland or the Shannon River, and not intended for parks or farms, cos re-wilding without wolves, bears and eagles, is not re-wilding its called protecting local nature and wildlife gardening. We are very consistant in our message to the Irsh business community, we say Get real and off the fence.

Scalability: Long-term notice is non-negotiable when certain species are required and when you require our SeedHeads team. We have 120 crops of different species, more than most growers in Ireland, we were managing 500 acres, during the last large scale project we had to scale up fro.

Extensive Landscape and Infrastructure Ecosystem Restoration describes what we do.

Can we trust AI?

a tool, and every gardener has a favourite tool, sadly one tool good tool is no use to a gardener, ecologist or designer, we need all the kit to deliver in the age of nature.