Autumn 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 …

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TY 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 …

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LEADER 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.

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Nationwide 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.

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Tree 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.

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CASTLETOWN 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.

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The 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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FOREST SCHOOL TRAINING AUGUST 2020 – IRISH LED WEEKEND!

We had an amazing weekend with the current cohort of trainees and despite pandemic madness and Kildare lockdowns, we managed to run a very safe and nourishing weekend in the woods!

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IRISH FOREST SCHOOL ASSOCIATION – ZOOM GATHERING June 2020

Finding new ways in a pandemic! We are adjusting to the use of the word zoom in our vocabulary very quickly in these days of the pandemic! Here we are attempting our very first what we are calling our Virtual Campfire Zoom hangout!

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Biodiversity Garden, IWA Clane June 2020

As part of our Citizen Science Project this year, we have been installing additional habitats in the garden here at the IWA Clane.

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