Fancy growing your own food! Your help is needed for a local community Allotment project at Highfield Nurseries

Issued : Tuesday 1 June, 2010
Areas : Rathgar

I would like to invite you to a Public Meeting on Wednesday 9th June at 8pm in the Hall of the Presbyterian Church on Highfield Road to discuss the possibility of starting a community allotment project at Highfield Nurseries.

This former market garden is on a 1.6acre site at the end of Oakland’s Crescent.

Local residents co-ordinated by Erik van Lennep, a professional horticulturist, design educator, sustainability consultant, and co-founder of the Cultivate Centre for Sustainable Living, together with the owner and the City Council, are prepared to work together on a community initiative and we need your help!

This initiative also has the support of Grow It Yourself, a national organisation of home and allotment food growers.

It could become a garden allotment for the area.   Among the possibilities for the site are:

  • Allotments both under glass and open air
  • Horticulture training and mentoring
  • Production of seedlings and plants for home gardens
  • Youth development and activities with the possibility of enterprise training

Come along … ideas & energy needed.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to get involved or would simply like some more information then please feel free to get in touch or drop me an email to oisin@oisinquinn.ie

 

Cllr Oisín Quinn

(087) 2520011.

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