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Politics brings with it good and bad days and satisfaction interspersed with frustration. People cope with the pressures in different ways. For me, tilling the good earth is, in every sense, a grounding experience.

We have lovely allotments ready to go land ploughed and rotovated. Plots are 90 sq meter in size. They are wind breaked and south facing. Facilities include parking, water on site, allotment cabin for taking a break/rest, tool storage access to farm yard manure. We plan on having a communal pollytunnel soon too.  Feel free Brian call/text 0852103626 or email douglasallotments@gmail.com for more information. We would be glad to show you around our allotments and chat. Brian

 my name is kieran and i'm opening allotments 5 minute drive from letterkenny in the next couple of weeks i should have things up and running for the end of april. there will be some plots ready this season with off street parking and hopefully all going well i'll have 40 plots of differant sizes,a picnic area with BBQ,a tea room, toilets and a childrens play area. for bookings contact kieran on 0857295435

Thank you for your interest in Season Park Farm Allotments, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow. 
There are plots available now for a 1 year lease from date of payment/till €250 inc. insurance. 
 
As we have 11 left to lease, we have a 'Christmas present allotment', so people would be able to purchase allotments for their family as presents.  These plots would then be available from the Christmas period €275 inc. of insurance till end of Feb 2011 inc.insurance or you can just go with the 1 year lease. 
 

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.