Community Roots

In March we paired 2 gardenless budding growers with a nursing home & look what they did together!😍 Growing food = community, caring & capability By sharing, reimagining how we use private space & perceive 'strangers' we can make magic happen🪄 Let's reignite the meitheal!

The amazing @niamhlacy & Dublin Sourdough Rotation are running a crowdfunding campaign! A thriving, volunteer-run urban food-sharing community, they want teach more people how to bake while building stronger community ties. Support their work here: spacehive.com/sourdough-rota…

Community Gardens Ireland have launched our General Election manifesto called GROW 2030. Included in this is a call for the developing of a plan to ensure spaces for growing food in every community by 2030. cgireland.org/grow-2030-comm…

🍎Mount Merrion apple pick this morning thanks to Evanna and to two wonderful volunteers - Mary and Celeste. Thanks to Mary for delivering to Dundrum. Great appreciation to all 🍎💚🍎

Preserving food without electricity is not hard, but we have largely forgotten those skills with freezers and fridges in every house. Drying, curing, fermenting and pickling are age-old techniques that don't requite any technology.

We're over the moon! 🥳

@DubCityCouncil are filming with us this morning. They're promoting the 2nd year of their community fundraising platform @spacehive It proved a great way for us to fundraise last year, allowing us increase our members & expand into new neighbourhoods. #LetsReigniteTheMeitheal

Chef Barry held a fantastic Intro To Fermenting workshop @ our Cabra community garden today. Many jars were filled with surplus summer veg & taken home 2 ferment. If interested in learning a gr8 way to preserve veg & increase nutrient intake, follow us, we'll run another soon.

🧵 1/9 Let’s talk about views from hospitals. Bear with us. This might seem like a niche topic, but your 'hospital view' can have profound effects. Today, most views from Irish hospitals look something like this: grey, unattractive, tar stained. Let's explore the alternatives!

Check out our resident hip hop collective - DJ Stu & The Kids' - latest rap video about growing food in our Cabra community garden😎🎤🥰

It’s that time of the year again.. processing tomatoes in to sauces and ketchup #GIY

@catherineeats has been a champion. For growers - of food, forests and everything in between. She's worked hard to stay in the room with everyone. Changing minds, doing the hard work of caring change, one carefully crafted story at a time. Here's the last Gamechangers column...

Our very own "warrior" @KennyCaitriona is quite rightly name checked in this weekend's Irish Times article on game changers 💪👇 irishtimes.com/life-style/202…

Just reading about the National Orchard in Geneva, New York. 50 acres. Nearly 7000 varieties. A library of Apple varieties. Cultivars. Wil Apples. Rootstocks. Is there one in Ireland, the UK or Europe I can visit. Imagine it in Spring. In Autumn. Imagine the cider.

The LEAF Programme is about empowering communities to grow their own food as a vital climate action. Collect your free seed packs and growing guides from your local library & let's GROW together! 🌱 See libraryleaf.ie for details 🌱

Learn to ferment fruit & veg! Join us in our community garden in Cabra, Dublin 7 on Sat 17th August at 11am. For more details or to book, click here👇 eventbrite.ie/e/introduction…

We held out 1st harvest festival at our community garden in Cabra. Great to see some of our members from other parts of the city made it too 😀

Garden share pairing Claire & Marceila from Dundrum are the latest members to win some gardening goodies! Just look at those showstopper lettuce heads! FYI they had to cover their raised bed with netting because the neighbourhood fox kept using it as a sun lounger 😎

Brilliant news! Sessions begin in August and September — off-grid solar, home & bike repairs. 🥳 Details on poster of how to sign up for Spark Skills! 🚲⚡️💪 @bfcdublin_CliCo #sustainable #repair #solarpv #D7

Dublin 7’s climate co-op “The Spark” will be offering a great new training course in the coming months, a place to learn lots of really useful new future-friendly skills - from bike repair to making your place more energy-efficient. tinyurl.com/2s3cczrj