Sustainable food start-up Harvest Day raises €150k with veggie box venture

Food industry veterans Dermot Murphy and Dave O’Donoghue put €75,000 each into firm which delivers vegetable boxes sourced from local Irish farms

Fergus Halpin, the 28-year-old founder and chief executive of Harvest Day, with one of the company’s freshly picked organically and naturally grown 100 per cent Irish boxes. Picture: Marin Bramblett

Dermot Murphy and Dave O’Donoghue, food investors with decades of experience in the industry, have injected a combined €150,000 into a year-old Irish start-up that provides sustainable food boxes sourced from local Irish farms.

The pair have put €75,000 each into Harvest Day, a company founded last year by Fergus Halpin which assembles weekly vegetable boxes consisting of sustainable, seasonal produce.

O’Donoghue and Murphy, who have both worked with Aryzta, the parent of Cuisine de ...