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Trevor Sargent TD - Offical open of Fingal Allotments, 7th August
Fingal Allotments are having an official opening by TD Trevor Sargent on
Saturday 7th August. We currently have 100 allotments and are continuing to
grow very successfully. Our members will all be present on the day along
with their families, friends and members of the public who all have a keen
interest in growing their own and becoming self sufficient.
There will be plenty of information and advice on the day along with lots to
do for all the family!
I look forward to hearing from you.
For more information please contact
Ask about gardening with Zef Klinkenbergh
Learn about growing your own fruit and vegetables In the kitchen garden of Dunstaffnage House St Brigid’s Church Road Stillorgan. Drop in any time on from 10am to 6pm admission is free. Dunstaffnage House is Opposite St John of God’s between Merville and Brewery Roads and Just off the entrance to Dunstaffnage Hall Apartments.This event is run in support of Eamon Ryan TD and the Dublin South Greens.
Bloom, the 3rd - 7th June2010
Bloom, Ireland’s largest gardening, food and family event, returns to the Phoenix Park Dublin this June bank holiday weekend for 5 days (Thursday 3rd – Monday 7th June). This year’s event will include over 20 spectacular showgardens, 50 floral displays and a large scale artisan farmers market. With something for everyone, visitors to Bloom 2010 can also look forward to live cookery and craft demonstrations, free gardening advice / workshops and kids go free! click here for more details http://bloominthepark.com/
Trevors garden kitchen
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.
funding for garden projects available - apply now !
The Local Agenda 21 Environmental Partnership Fund is no longer accepting applications for 2009 funding. Funding for 2010 will commence in February. The fund promotes sustainable development by assisting small, non-profit environmental projects at a local level.
Tobacco to be grown in Phoenix Park
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.
Blooming in Bridgefoot Street - RTE radio coverage
Listen to the RTE radio 1 coverage of:
Blooming in Bridgefoot Street
playColman O'Sullivan reports that the idea of a community garden has caught on among council tenants living around Bridgefoot Street in Dublin's city centre
Farmers’ markets - Best Practice
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.
Greens launch allotment and community garden plan in Bloom's 'Obama Garden'
Food Minister Trevor Sargent today said he was determined to encourage more Irish people to grow their own food. At the same time Minister Sargent also launched a plan to boost confidence in Farmers’ Markets.
Minister Sargent, was speaking as he launched two key initiatives today [Friday May 29] at the new Obama Garden, - a model of Michelle Obama’s White House organic garden - in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.
public talk - tuesday march 31st, dublin
A public meeting on growing food locally
Tuesday 31 March 2009, 8pm - Cultivate (15 - 19 Essex St West), Temple Bar, Dublin
Speakers...
Guerrilla gardeners dig in
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.
Free stalls for community gardens at farmers markets
-Move will promote growing food on allotments
New RTÉ series will reinforce grow your own movement
UPDATE
Missed the programme on RTÉ? - don't worry... catch up on RTÉ Player:
Programme - Corrigan's City Farm
You can't beat the taste of your own potatoes - Irish Times growing series continues
Fionnuala Fallon continues her Irish Times series on growing your own food with a look at growing both indoors and out.
Read more here
Top chef Corrigan sets up inner city farm in a bid to grow your own veg
The Evening Herald has a story on how Chef Richard Corrigan's new TV series will show families that it is possible to grow vegetables on a plot in the midst of the inner city.
Corrigan's City Farm will see the chef tackle an enormous challenge by setting up a farm on wasteland in a city location and training an army of volunteers to run it.
Garden designer Fionnuala Fallon has written the first article in a series for the Irish Times on growing your own food. In this article, she outlines her interest in the subject and looks at the OPW's organic walled garden in the Phoenix Park.sucess story - Kilkenny allotments
Green Party Cllr Malcolm Noonan organised a meeting in Kilkenny City in September 2008 to determine the level of public interest in setting up an allotment scheme. Following a large turnout, Cllr Noonan was approached by several landowners who wished to provide land for the establishment of allotments on a private site. The cost for renting an allotment is €175 a year with garden shed and watering facilities provided for an extra cost.
galway greens launch get ireland growing campaign at new NUIG organic garden
Today the Galway Greens launched their local campaign to Get Ireland Growing at Ireland's first Campus Organic Garden in NUIG.
The launch was performed by Seamus Sheridan of Sheridan's Cheesmongers and the slow food movement, Will Softly of Irish Seedsavers and Cait Curran the editor of Irish Organic Matters.
get ireland growing launch
Speaking at the launch of Get Ireland Growing in the National Botanic Gardens Minister Food Minister Trevor Sargent said: “Over the last number of years Irish people have got increasingly interested in good food, cooking, and in living green lifestyles and we have witnessed a similar growth in people wanting to grow their own food.