Cashel Library Hosts Planting and Pollinator Workshops for Sustainable Development Goals Week 2024

As part of Sustainable Development Goals Week 2024, Cashel Library is partnering with Grow It Yourself Waterford to deliver workshops on seed sowing and pollinators. These workshops will be hosted by Adrian O’ Connor.   Grow It Yourself provides people with the skills to produce their own food in a sustainable manner and lead a […]

innocent and GIY ‘Big Grow’ Kits now available for primary schools

innocent’s ‘Big Grow’ is back, recruiting a whole new bunch of the littlest veggie growers with the mission to help kids to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. Now in its 9th year, innocent will once again partner with the growing experts at GIY and give primary school kids the chance to grow their own […]

GIY and Energia want to ‘Get Ireland Growing’ with €75,000 fund – Now open for applications from Tipperary

  GIY in partnership with Energia announce ‘Energia Get Ireland Growing’ a €75,000 pool of funding available to enable food growing by community and voluntary organisations all across Ireland including Northern Ireland. The application period is open from today until the 19th of January, 2018. The ‘Get Ireland Growing’ initiative has to date supported almost 500 […]

Open day to launch School of Food’s ‘Market Garden’ to the South East

The South East’s culinary hub, Thomastown School of Food will launch its newly developed ‘Market Garden’ on Saturday, July 2nd with an open day for the public from 11am to 3pm at their one-acre Community Garden site in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. The Market Garden was developed with the assistance of Waterford based, sustainable gardening group, […]

GIY launch ‘al desko’ Food Growing Challenge #givepeasachance

Norah Casey was on hand to join GIY (Grow It Yourself) and Cully & Sully in throwing down the gauntlet for Irish businesses to sign up to the ‘al desko Food Growing Challenge’ with the top budding growers walking away with a prize bag worth €5000. The initiative, dubbed ‘Give Peas A Chance’, aims to get […]

An all-Ireland conference on Community Supported Agriculture in Tipperary

CSA_Ireland-Conference The Cloughjordan Community Farm In association with the National Organic Training Skillnet (NOTS), The Soil Association (UK), Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association (IOFGA), URGENCI – Global Network of CSA’s, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Cultivate, and FEASTA present Growing Together An all-Ireland conference on  Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) 17th, 18th & 19th of February * Cloughjordan, Tipperary […]

Interested in growing your own food?

First Meeting of GIY Tipperary Town GIY (Grow it Yourself) Ireland is a new not-for-profit initiative that is literally sweeping the nation.  Its objective is to get people who are interested in growing their own food together (in the community and online) on a regular basis to talk, learn from each other and exchange tips, […]