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Hi, I just wanted to let everybody know about a new service my husband Ian and I have been setting up over the summer months.  We too love growing our own and felt that there was a real lack of education for beginners (although that, thankfully is starting to change).  We started Greenside Up and are offering a variety of services to cater for all budgets - from beginners workshops, talks to allotments & community groups, to advice services and landscaping/raised beds, we're keen to help anybody who wants to give it a go.  Although qualified, we still remember h

Fionnuala Fallon writes in the Irish Times that tobacco is being grown in the walled garden at the Phoenix Park
 
IT’S NOW exactly 70 years since tobacco, or Nicotiana Tabacum, was last grown on a commercial basis in Ireland, with the formal dissolution of the Co-operative Tobacco Growers Society of County Meath in 1939 finally ending that county’s (and the country’s) long-standing association with the crop.
 

Hi Everyone 
I went up to our wonderful garden last Sunday morning, a great sunny day. It looks fabulous!
Everything is growing well.... I have attached some photos. Really impressed with the herb garden that one of our members created! 

Annual Midsummer picnic. So often open days at community gardens include slave labour! So once a year we have a picnic, where old and new friends can get togather and just enjoy this community garden. Sunday June 21st, from 2pm to 4 pm you can bring a picnic and the kids and visit this community orchard garden near kinvara Co. Galway. Contact no. 091-638099.

I am just starting out on this project as part of my woodbadge training to develop a new programme with the cubs.
We plan to cultivate initially one raised bed organically in a neighbours garden (just up the hill from our scout hall). I would like the cubs to grow food that they can cook and eat and in this way enable them to get parts of their cooks badge and gardening badge and wildife/environment badge.

Minster Sargent also launched a ‘Best Practice for Farmers’ Markets’. New guidelines will include a green flag system to encourage higher standards at markets. The voluntary guidelines will focus on what a Farmers’ Market should be. If produce is to be identified as local, it must be grown either in the county of the market or in an adjoining county. To signify the local character of the market, at least 50% of the produce on sale must qualify as being of local origin. With prepared food such as jam or a cake, at least one of the ingredients should be local.

We are  having an open day and farm walk at Brown Envelope Seeds on Sunday 31st May at 3pm and we would love you to come.

Guerrilla gardening is transforming neglected corners of cities the world over, according to Yvonne Gordon in today's Irish Times. She joined green gardenenrs as a new flower bed is created on a patch of public land in Booterstown this week. Read more here.