Projects
Growing Wild Forest School on Countrywide!!
We were honoured with a visit from Regan Hutchens for RTE Countrywide during our Forest School themed Easter Camp here at Growing Wild in Donadea! There is a gorgeous 7 minutes capturing the magic and essence of Forest School here on my land! We were making dandelon fritters, having tug of wars and stick fights …
Read MoreSummer Camps 2024 – on my land!
In July of 2024, I ran my first two summer camps on my land in Donadea! We had a full house for both weeks, and the kids had a ball roaming wild on my land, in fact I think my land was so happy to haave children roaming free on it! We made nature crafts …
Read MoreLiving Willow Structures Workshop at ISSA
I was invited down to Irish Seedsavers in March 2022 to carry out a Living Willow workshops. We spent a lovely day (in slightly challenging weather conditions) wokring on a pre-existing willow dome, we added a new tunnel onto the dome and we revitalised the old dome by adding new structures into it, great group …
Read MoreAutumn Foraging Session – Digby Bridge, Oct 2021
Gorgeous afternoon on Saturday 30th October 2021leading a foraging session at Digby Bridge near Prosperous in Kildare, we walked and talked about plants and then we came back and cooked our finds by the banks of the canal, beautiful day! It’s been the kind of autumn that the leaves are still on and so are …
Read MoreTY Summer Programme 2021 at IWA Clane
This summer we ran a follow up programme to our hugely successful TY programme funded by Kildare LEADER partnership at the Rathcoffey ZWCG in the Biodiversity gardens at the IWA Clane (https://iwaclanebiodiversitygarden.wordpress.com/). The project was kindly funded by the John Sullivan Resource Centre and by our heritage officer Bridget Loughlin of the County Kildare Heritage …
Read MoreLEADER Education Programme at ZWCG Rathcoffey March 2021
We have just managed to start our Transition year Programme as part of our Kildare LEADER funded programme at Zero Waste Community Garden Rathcoffey. We are running a 10-week gardening – Biodiversity - Living heritage and Zero Waste programme with a group of 14 TY’s from scoil Mhuire in Clane.
Read MoreNationwide feature – tree planting for Zero Waste Community Garden Rathcoffey January 2021
Our tree planting day in Zero Waste Community Garden Rathcoffey featured on this week’s Nationwide.
Read MoreTree Planting Day at Rathcoffey ZWCG
On a brisk, fresh, and sunny day at the start of December, the community came together to plant 250 trees at the Rathcoffey Zero Waste Community Garden.
Read MoreCASTLETOWN HOUSE FOREST SCHOOL – Autumn Sessions 2020
We have just managed to complete a 6-week Forest School term with our ongoing After School Group that we run out of Castletown House, in one of the areas of woodland near the big house, called the Pinetum.
Read MoreThe Learning Series at Rathcoffey Zero Waste Community Garden September 2020
I have just started teaching a series of seasonal sessions at the Rathcoffey Zero Waste Community garden for an adult group, made up of a mixture of gardeners involved in the garden itself and members of the wider community.
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