Planned Events for National Allotments & Community Gardens Week, 12-19th October!

A huge thank you to all community groups who are offering to host public events during next week’s National Allotments & Community Garden Week (12th – 19th October 2024)!

The 2024 theme is “Healthy Soil” and we hope as many allotments, community gardens, school gardens, tidy towns and local growers in Ireland can get involved.

To register a event for National Allotments and Community Gardens Week 2024, send details of your event to info@cgireland.org, including the address of your event (or online link if virtual), and the time of the event. We will then publicise the event on our website.

Some examples of activities during the week would be organising a your or an event at your local community growing space, holding discussions online or in person, starting a local network of community growers, or post photos and videos online about the importance of Healthy Soil!

#NationalAllotmentsWeek #NationalCommunityGardensWeek #HealthySoil #cgireland #communitygardensireland #nationalgrowingweek

If you don’t have social media, you can email us any photos or videos and we can post them online and tag your community garden or allotment.

Saturday 12^th October:

Cork:

Bandon Community Allotments are offering an Introduction to Fermentation’ workshop on Saturday 12th October in Bandon Town Hall from 11am – 1pm. Using their own produce, Bandon Community Allotments will demonstrate some fermentation and preservation methods!

Dublin:

Airfield @ 10am – the official launch of National Allotments and Community Gardens Week 2024 is taking place at our Yearly Gathering of Community Growers! This year it takes place at Airfield in Dublin on Saturday 12th October where we will be visiting and seeing first hand the amazing growing activities and community garden at Airfield! This is a ticketed event (now sold out), book your ticket soon here. For cancellations, email info@cgireland.org

Sunday 13^th October:

Kildare:

Zero Waste Community Garden, Rathcoffey, 12pm – 2pm – Joint us for some hands-on willow care and harvesting & a pumpkin raffle for the children and grandchild of our gardeners and residents, featuring pumpkins grown right here in the garden! It’s a perfect day for the whole community to come together, enjoy the garden, and celebrate the harvest season. We look forward to seeing you there!

Monaghan:

‘Seed Saving at Síolta Chroí’

Sunday 13th October (11 – 5pm) at Síolta Chroí (just outside Carrickmacross).

This Seed Saving course is designed for growers, farmers, and anyone interested in sustainable food growing and resilient local food systems. This course will balance the practicalities of seed saving with an understanding of the embodied wisdom and tales of the seeds themselves. This course is led by Conor O’Kane, long time community grower and seed saver, who will guide us into a deeper connection with seeds through the stories, heritage and practice of Seed Saving and the context of Seed Sovereignty.

You can book into this workshop at the following link: Seed Saving at Síolta Chroí

*We would like to promote ease of access to our venue. If you are actively travelling with public transport, please let us know and we can arrange lifts or car sharing from Carrickmacross (accessible by the bus from Dublin) or Dundalk train station. If access is an issue, please let us know.

Monday 14th October:

Dublin:

Ciarán Conneely from Santry Community Garden and Dublin Community Growers is giving a talk on community gardens in Swords Library on Monday 14th Oct @ 18:30 as part of Bioeconomy week and National Community Gardens Week!

Wexford:

Enniscorthy Community Allotments are starting a 6 week workshop on Mindfulness by Hilary Connor on Monday, 14th October from 10am to 12pm. Spaces are limited and need to be booked! For more details, contact Annette on 0872135007.

Tuesday 15^th October:

Online (Booking link): https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1010

Tuesday 15^th 8pm – Learning from Gardens Globally

Naomi Lacey (Community Gardens Australia) and Molly Garvey (Community Gardens Ireland), talk about their own growing journeys, their experiences in working with Community Growing in their own countries, and the learnings they have acquired and shared through their international study tours. This discussion will be hosted by Conor O’Kane (Social Farms & Gardens NI / CGI) with an open Q & A session at the end.

Dublin:

Mud Island Community Garden, 2pm – 5pm, is open to visitors on gardening days during National Community Gardening Week – come and do some gardening, or just wander around and enjoy this hidden gem in Dublin’s North Inner City. All are welcome. Eircode D03 CX37 – you’ll find us at the top of the lane between 42 and 43 North Strand Road, Dublin 3. See you in the garden! Website Instagram Twitter Facebook

Leitrim:

The newly established Leitrim Community Garden Network is holding their first meeting on Tuesday 15th October at 17:30 in the Leitrim Development Company Training Room, Drumshanbo (N41 RF24), as part of National Community Garden Week 2024!

Community garden groups, or groups planning to establish a community garden, are invited to attend to discuss their needs, how they can work together, and to meet and share ideas with other community garden groups in County Leitrim.

We will also be launching the Leitrim Community Garden Network website with an interactive map of community gardens in Leitrim. Also at the meeting, Zara Evans, Community Horticultural Advisor with Leitrim Development Company will be giving a talk on soil maintenance and preparing your garden for next Spring. Zara is also available to organise free short courses and presentations on various gardening topics to community garden groups in Leitrim in 2024/2025.

Wednesday 16th October:

Wicklow:

Russborough Estate, Co. Wicklow, 10:30am to 3:30pm:

The walled garden at the Russborough estate in Co Wicklow is a community garden restored and managed by volunteers. The garden will be open on Wednesday 16th and Saturday 19th October 10.30 to 3.30 and visitors will be welcome to see the work of the volunteers and, in particular, our commitment to promoting healthy soil. No peat is used in the garden and we make our own compost which is used to mulch flowers and vegetables. We also make leaf mould. We have constructed 16 compost bays and will be happy to show them to visitors. More information about the garden can be found at https://rhsi.ie/rhsi-walled-garden/

Thursday 17^th October:

Derry:

‘Living Table’
Thursday 17th October (Void Gallery, Derry) 6pm – 8pm

‘Living Table’ is inspired by the life that grows around a table: from the life of insects that pollinate crops to the cultural and political life made manifest in recipes, traditions, and dinner table habits, from microorganisms to human migration and looking at our ancestor’s heritage, the soil that we are, water, seeds, and more.
The workshop will be Led by Désirée Coral, an Ecuadorian artist and Glasgow Seed Library’s first artist and researcher in residence at the CCA, Glasgow.
We are inviting those who attend to bring with you any surplus from your harvest this year; fresh produce or that which you have pickled, preserved, etc. for sharing around the Living Table together at the event.
To book your place email sioltachroi@gmail.com (we are inviting a ‘Solidarity Donation for the ‘Living Table’ events)

Dublin:

Mud Island Community Garden, 2pm – 5pm, is open to visitors on gardening days during National Community Gardening Week – come and do some gardening, or just wander around and enjoy this hidden gem in Dublin’s North Inner City. All are welcome. Eircode D03 CX37 – you’ll find us at the top of the lane between 42 and 43 North Strand Road, Dublin 3. See you in the garden! Website Instagram Twitter Facebook

Waterford:

Top of the City Community Garden are holding an online event called “Successful Composting Session” – https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/successful-composting-session-tickets-1028795283387

Friday 18^th October:

Dublin:

Mud Island Community Garden, 11am – 5pm, is open to visitors on gardening days during National Community Gardening Week – come and do some gardening, or just wander around and enjoy this hidden gem in Dublin’s North Inner City. All are welcome. Eircode D03 CX37 – you’ll find us at the top of the lane between 42 and 43 North Strand Road, Dublin 3. See you in the garden! Website Instagram Twitter Facebook

Pearse Park Community Garden, a new community garden in Crumlin in Dublin are hosting an autumn outdoor movie night, watching the soil based documentary “Kiss the ground” on Friday the 18th of October at 6pm.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/movie-night-in-pearse-park-community-garden-tickets-1044979380457

Monaghan:

‘Living Table’
Friday 18th October (Síolta Chroí, Carrickmacross) 6pm – 8pm.

Saturday 19^th October:

Dublin:

Flanagan’s Field Community Garden have a Healthy Soil Workshop, 11am – supported by Dublin Community Growers

Raheny Community Garden Open Day, 10:30 – 12:30, join the team for some onion and garlic planting! https://www.rahenytidyvillage.ie/community-garden

Reilly’s Community Garden by the Royal Canal have their Autumn Gathering is taking place from 2pm – 4:30pm on Saturday 19th October! There will be a harvest, scarecrow making, pumpkin carving, Halloween costumes and more! This is a family friendly event, with free entry! More details here:

Mud Island Community Garden on Saturday 19th October are running a workshop on COMPOSTING from 10.30 to 11.30 am – the 3rd workshop in our series on climate actions that you can do at home, it’s sponsored by www.ourcommonknowledge.org – @common_k_ . Places are limited so email mudislandcommunitygarden@gmail.com to secure your place.

Mud Island Community Garden, 2pm – 5pm, is open to visitors on gardening days during National Community Gardening Week – come and do some gardening, or just wander around and enjoy this hidden gem in Dublin’s North Inner City. All are welcome. Eircode D03 CX37 – you’ll find us at the top of the lane between 42 and 43 North Strand Road, Dublin 3. See you in the garden! Website Instagram Twitter Facebook

Laois:

O’Moore Place Allotment Space, Portlaoise, 11am – 3pm, Saturday 19th October

Join Us on Saturday 19th October as we celebrate National Allotment & Community Gardens Week with a special Street Feast event in O’Moore Place, Portlaoise

There will be food, growing related & cooking workshops and wonderful connections between neighbours and community

Spread the word!

Louth:

Drogheda Community Allotments, 11am – 1pm on Saturday 19th October

A tour of Drogheda Community Allotments, with a demonstration of seed saving and garlic growing, will take place at Newtown Cross, Newtownstalaban, Drogheda from 11.00 am-1pm on Saturday 19^th October.

Wicklow:

Blessington Library, 10am – 4pm, Gardening Course for Biodiversity & Climate Change by Aoife Munn. Book here for more details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/free-gardening-workshop-blessington-sponsored-by-wicklow-county-council-tickets-1012780924007

Russborough Estate, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, 10:30am – 3:30pm:

Haven’t registered your event yet? Let us know at info@cgireland.org and by tagging Community Gardens Ireland on social media during the week (12th – 19th October 2024)!