Category: Events

Community gardens and allotments are powerful tools for climate adaptation and combating biodiversity loss. They provide spaces where communities can connect, grow, and thrive, offering evidence-based physical and mental health benefits while fostering social inclusion and cohesion. The Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss highlighted the importance of green spaces and the vital role urban areas […]

Each year we hold an in-person gathering of community growers on the island of Ireland. This event is also the yearly launch of National Allotments and Community Gardens Week, which is a week long celebration of community growing projects throughout Ireland. This year we are delighted to announce that our friends in Airfield, Dundrum, Dublin […]

Earlier this week, Community Gardens Ireland received some good news that community gardens are set to be defined in Irish law for the first time. In recent years, Community Gardens Ireland have presented at various Oireachtas Committees on the poor legal status that both allotments and community gardens have in Ireland. As our 2022 “Let’s […]

Great news – we are delighted to announce that Community Gardens Ireland are a finalist in this year’s Digital Town Awards! We have been shortlisted for the Digital Community category and Maeve Foreman from our committee has been shortlisted in the Digital Local Hero category! So many brilliant projects on the shortlist – Best of […]

Community Gardens Ireland has been selected by Lush Cork as a charity partner. We will be in store the weekend of the 6th and 7th of April. All sales of their Charity Pot will go to supporting Community Gardens Ireland. Would you like to help promote Community Gardening in Cork? Can you spare a couple […]