Ballina - GIY Group of 2013 "On a wet May evening in 2010, 60 people gathered in the town library for the launch of GIY Ballina and three and a half years later, our group has gone from strength to strength. Almost all our members own their own gardens, large and small, town and country, in which they grow their own food. However, we also have a large group of volunteers who grow communa...
Allotments GIY Profile for Skerries Allotments, Golf Links Road, Hacketstown, Skerries, Co Dublin. Contact: Mary Marsden, [email protected] or 086 064 3498 Tell us about your Allotments. How did it get started? Skerries Allotments started as an initiative of Sustainable Skerries, a sub-committee of which met with Fingal Co Council in November 2009. Numerous meetings were then held ...
GIY Waterford In conversation with group coordinators Gemma, Aisling and Chris. What got you involved in your local group? The three of us got involved in GIY to be part of a community of food growers. We each individually had an interest in gardening. Aisling and Gemma felt the need to share knowledge and Chris gets a kick out of being able to ask the oddest questions and knowing that someone i...
Kildare Town Group Profile submitted by Judith O Connor What got you involved in your local group? Kildare Town GIY Group is still in the early development stages, having only had the first meeting in August 2012. The group was started by the library taking a list of interested names, then to get the group up and running myself Judith O’Connor offered to take the first meeting havi...
Submitted by Patrick Burke on behalf of Rush GIY What got you involved in your local group? It grew out of a Transition Town meeting I attended where I volunteered to champion a local GIY group Where does the group meet? We meet in the grounds of St.Catherine’s National School. It’s equipped with a poly-tunnel, outdoor class teaching area and loads of space for compost heaps, rai...
The Cooley GIY Group meets in the Cooley Complex, Monksland, Co. Louth. Contact: [email protected] or Aidan @ 0873144831 In May of 2011, that two workers employed by Cooley Complex Ltd (part of Cooley Kickhams GAA), named Mr Nicholas Rafferty and Mr Alo McGrath through the help of Betty Carder were undertaking a computer course and were surfing the net to see i...
GIY Cork City The GIY Cork City group is in its 3rd year and so far have held 29 group gatherings. The GIY group meet on the first Tuesday of the month and initial meetings were held at South Presentation Convent but since September 2011 the monthly GIY meetings have been held in the South Parish Community Centre Hall, Sawmill Street, Cork City. The topics at this year’s events...
by Valerie Hackett (Group Champion) I went along to the Oranmore GIY group to see if I could get some know how on planting some veg in my back garden. Myself and my partner moved into a new build house in a housing estate in the village a few years ago and we were keen to get things growing out the back. I really fancied a bit of the kitchen garden my parents had when I was growing up...