Community Gardening Day
Thursdays 10am – 5pm
Join us when we work together in the garden every Thursday. Get your hands in the soil, learn about gardening and enjoy a taster of community farm life. We will provide lunch.
Please contact us in advance to let us know you’re coming.
Pop up Gaeltacht
Thursdays 6.15pm – 7.15pm
Join us in our cosy yurt for tea and biscuits and chats as gaeilge. All levels welcome. If you don’t feel confident in your Irish speaking ability, you are welcome to come and listen. You might surprise yourself!
Is fearr Gaeilge briste, na Bearla cliste.
Grow your Own Vegetables
March 12th – October 15th
8 Saturday workshops spread over the growing season
Facilitator: Siobhán Lavelle
Time: 11:00 – 15:30
Cost:
€15 to €35 per workshop pay as you go
€120 – €210 for entire course if booked before 1st of March (25% discount)
€120 – 260 for entire course if paid on 12th of March (10% discount)
Sliding scale is to accommodate people on lower incomes. Please pay what you can afford to help balance out costs.
Barter offers may be accepted. Please contact us to discuss this option.
Learn how to grow your own nutritious, chemical free vegetables from seed to harvest. Grow vegetables with less effort by working with nature’s systems.
Practical, hands-on, interactive workshops in a relaxed, friendly setting.
What you will learn:
- Sowing seeds – various methods
- Understanding and improving your soil
- Transplanting seedlings correctly
- Inexpensive, natural home remedies for pest and disease problems
- No dig gardening
- Companion planting and polyculture
- Natural, low maintenance weed control
- Annual vegetables, perennial vegetables and herbs
Dates:
- March 12th
- April 9th
- May 14th
- June 11th
- July 23rd
- August 20th
- September 17th
- October 15th
Food: Tea and coffee will be provided. Please bring your own lunch. We will break for lunch between 13:00 and 13:30.
About the facilitator:
Siobhán is a qualified horticulturist who has been growing vegetables for 10+ years and teaching horticulture for 5 years. She is a diploma candidate with the UK Permaculture Association.
She is passionate about empowering people to grow their own food and about finding ways to make food production easier by understanding and working with nature.
Month by month plan
This plan is provisional, subject to weather and the pace the group and the plants are moving at. We will be growing and caring for crops in real time and responding to whatever issues arise as we go.
March
Seed sowing (indoors)
Watering
Understanding soil
Finding and creating micro-climates
April
Creating no-dig beds
Seed sowing (outdoors)
Potting on
Planting potatoes
May
Planting out
Companion planting
Crop rotation
Beneficial plants and insects
Building support structures for peas and beans
Minimum effort weed control
June
Natural pest and disease control
Mulching
Chop and drop
Harvesting
Successional sowing
July
Perennial vegetables
Uses of weeds
Ongoing plant care
August
More on pest and disease control
Choosing vegetable varieties
Ongoing plant care
September
Overwinter crops
Composting
Combining vegetables with trees
October
Green manures
Seed saving
Harvest and celebration
Foraging Walk
Saturday May 28th
Facilitator: Siobhán Lavelle
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Cost: €10 – €25
Sliding scale is to accommodate people on lower incomes. Please pay what you can afford to help balance out costs.
Barter offers may be accepted. Please call us to discuss this option
In this workshop, you will learn how to identify and use some of the food and medicine that grows in abundance in the hedges, fields and gardens around us.
About the facilitator
Siobhan is a qualified horticulturist with 10+ years’ experience. She has been foraging on a daily basis for 3 years, making her own herbal remedies and obtaining a portion of her diet from wild plants.
Spring – Summer 2022
Watch this space for upcoming courses in forest gardening and permaculture.
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