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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Good news for Kells with 40 allotments expected to be available to the areas residents this year.
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Tags: 100 square metres, 11 month period, 160 sq metres, agricultural land, allotment kells, allotments kells, applications, Co. Meath, Community allotments, council, Edmund Rice Centre, February, Kells, letting land, Loyd have been set aside for the allotments, March, public meeting, residents, Two acres, €60, €90
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
In previous articles I have looked at allotment culture from both a historical and site owners perspective. Well, in this piece I hope to help the “landless” gardener source their very own allotment, for a years growing at the very least.
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Tags: allotment association, Allotment benefits, allotment culture, allotment growing, allotment society, children, City Council, Community allotments, community development, Composting, county council, Department of the Environment, developing a new skill, Environment Partnership Fund, exercise, fairs, Fas, fresh air, fresh food, funding agency Department of Community, garden centres, gardener, government schemes, grants, hardware suppliers, herbicides, historical, kitchen waste, landless, Leader funding, learning experience, Local Agenda 21 funding, local authority, local community, markets, mental health issues, mentor, parks and recreation, pesticides, privately owned allotment schemes, public allotments, Rapid funding, Rapid programmes, recycled, reduces stress, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Section 67 of the Local Government Act, sense of community, site owners, social benefits, unused land, urban living, VEC, Vocational Education Committee
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
In the first part of this series of articles I had the pleasure of introducing you to a possible business venture for landowners. This venture, partly commercial and partly philanthropic is the provision of allotments close to a village, town, or city.
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Tags: Allotment helpers, allotment insurance, allotment owners, allotment scheme, allotments city, allotments town, allotments village, Antrim, Bark mulch, BBQ, business venture, commercial, communal shed, communal tea area, Cork, cultivating, disabled access, DIY stores Yearly rental allotments, Down, Dublin, farms insurance, farmyard manure, fencing, foundations, fruit tree planting onsite, Galway, garden centre, greenhouses, Kildare, landowners, liability waiver, Limerick, local authority approval, Manure, Meath, mushroom compost, On-site car parking, orchard area, pathways, planning, plot size, Ploughing, provision of allotments, Public Liability, public meeting, rabbit protection, Secure storage, seed shop, Sheds, Tipperary, Toilets, tool shop, tractor, trailer, veg, water stand pipes, Wexford, wheelbarrow, Wicklow, €10000, €250
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
For a country that promotes itself as the Emerald Isle, Ireland has been found badly wanting where the provision of allotments are concerned. This is very apparent when we consider what small quantities of plots our city and county councils throughout the land provide.
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Tags: 10 pole plot, 100 sq metres, 200 sq metres, 250 sq metres, 50 sq metre, agricultural land, allotment funding, allotment grants, allotment landowner, allotment planning permission, Allotments, Beginners, city, city councils, county councils, Emerald Isle, farms, fruit growing, garden sheds, government, Green party, green space, Ireland, Land, livestock, pathways, planning authority, planning permission, planning permission allotments, polytunnels, public allotment schemes, rent, temporary structures, town, urban areas, vegetable growing, vegetables, Village, waiting lists
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
When I think back, allotments always seemed to me to be a typically English pursuit. I always pictured a Jack Duckworth type character from Manchester’s Coronation Street using his allotment for the dual purposes of cultivating cabbages, whilst enjoying some quality time away from his wife Vera. However, my thoughts have changed in past years as I have seen an upsurge of interest in allotment growing right here in Ireland.
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Tags: 1913, 1916, allotment growing in Ireland, allotment history ireland, Belfast, cities, City Allotment Schemes, city councils, Clonmel, commonage, county councils, cultivating cabbages, Dublin, Dublin Corporation, English allotments, farmers, food, General Enclosure Act, growing their own vegetables, healthier living, history of allotments, ireland allotment history, Jack Duckworth, naval blockades, nineteenth century, organic food, square foot, St Vincent de Paul, Victorians, World War I
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Athenry Environmental Network Allotment Open Day Saturday October 3rd 2pm to 3pm - Athenry
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Tags: allotment, allotment scheme, Athenry, Athenry Environmental Network, garden, growing vegetables, growing your own veg, learn, limited spaces, meeting, October 3rd, practical experience, tips on planting, winter veg
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
As the interest in home-produced food reaches fever pitch, a new organisation called GIY Ireland is aiming to inspire people to get growing and give them the knowledge they need to do so successfully.
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Tags: 2009, 3 course lunch, allotment growing, Allotments, back-garden, baking, Ballymaloe Cookery School, community gardens, county, Darina Allen, draw, exchange tips, food, food growers groups, GIY Ireland, GIY networks, growing, health & nutrition, home-produced, Ireland, John Seymour School of Self-sufficiency, Keynote speakers, knowledge, learn, local produce, Michael Kelly, Minister for Food and Horticulture, organisation, permaculture, produce, seed-saving, September 12th, successfully, talk, TD, Tickets, town, Trevor Sargent, vegetable growers, war-stories, Waterford Institute of Technology, Will Sutherland, workshops, €35
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Gortbrack organic farm (Ballyseedy, Tralee, Co. Kerry) is hosting a weekend course on “An introduction to permaculture and how to plant a forest garden” with Graham Strouts (Kinsale permaculture course tutor) on sat 8th & sun 9th august.
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Tags: Allotments, August, Ballyseedy, Co. Kerry, Community Education Programme, community green spaces, design and build, forest garden, fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, Gortbrack, graham strouts, habitat, herbs, Kerry Earth Education Project, Kerry Education Services, Kinsale permaculture course, mulch, no-dig, no-weed gardening, organic farm, Organic lunch, perennial vegetables, permaculture, permaculture principles, permaculture teachers, plants, practical experience, practical skills, public spaces, school grounds, self-maintaining garden, Tralee, tutor, weekend course, west Cork, wildlife
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Nature-Friendly Gardening and Growing for the Kitchen is the name of a one Day course which is being held on 8th August 2009. It takes place on a smallholding near Kiltegan in West Wicklow, 75 minutes from Dublin city centre.
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Tags: 8th August 2009, asian, cooked, Country Market, Dublin city centre, Emma Nelson, families, Fruit, gardeners, gardening, greenhouse, growing, home-grown herbs, keeping hens, Kiltegan, Kitchen, kitchen garden, Mo Osman, Nature-Friendly, one Day course, polytunnel, small groups, small holding, smallholding, Tullow., vegetables, West Wicklow
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