Urban Farm Project

24/04/2024

The urban farm would be focused on market gardening, agroforestry, and educational activities

20/10/2023

18/04/2023

Creating sustainibility and access to food in an urban environmentAndrew Douglas at CreativeMornings Dublin, August 2016. Free events like this one are hoste...

12/02/2023

Green Earth Organics - Healthy eating starts in your fridge! 100% Certified Organic fresh fruit and vegetables! Order online direct from our farm shop. We deliver locally in Galway, Mayo, Limerick, Dublin and courier nationwide....

12/02/2023

Provision of Community Growing Spaces in Ireland: Community Gardens Ireland Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage debate - Tuesday, 1 Mar 2022

27/10/2022

Council commits 6.6 acres for an urban farm in Ballymun, Dublin.

https://dublininquirer.com/2022/10/26/council-promises-6-6-acres-in-ballymun-for-a-community-farm

The Ballymun City Farm group envisions farm animals, a community garden, and a nature trail. But first they need a lease from the council, and funding.

10/03/2022

A National Fodder and Food Security Committee is being established in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed. (Ireland)

A National Fodder and Food Security Committee is being set up in response to the invasion of Ukraine, the Minister for Agriculture confirmed.

10/03/2022

Belvedere College Urban Farm, Dublin, Ireland.
The future looks bright with the expansion of the farm space into it's own building with multiple learning opportunities for the students of Ireland

https://youtu.be/AtWi_Tgp1Zw

Video Production by Jacl Productions. Dublin, Ireland

06/09/2021

Hello Hoppers!
It's Harvest Time for 2021 @ Social Hops!!

It's been a socially quiet year for Social Hops what with all the restrictions and such, but it's now HARVEST TIME!!

Rascals would love to see you all at the Brewery on 18th September with your fresh hops for this year's brew 🍻

Rascals will need all the hops ready to be put into the kettle by 2pm.

So can all the Social Hops growers come to Rascals between 11:30am and 1:30pm on Sept 18th with their hops already pre-picked from the vines in cardboard or paperbags or alternatively they can pick them off the vines here with the other hoppers.

If Saturday doesn't suit people, they can drop the pre-picked hops into Rascals at any time on the Friday 17th September and they will be put straight into the cold room for use the next day.

Rascals will likely do a Red Ale with all of this years freshly harvested hops and the beer will be ready on the week commencing 4th October 2021🍺

Emails will be sent out with full details 👍🍻

20/02/2021

30/01/2021

This weekend we launched our new grow your own initiative with Blessington Educate Together National School!

Every student in the school will receive a bare root strawberry, raspberry & blueberry plant, apple or pear tree & seeds.

Books from GIY have also been provided for each class!

This project was possible following our receiving of a Wicklow County Council community award grant in 2020.

Special thanks as well to Blessington Lakes Garden Centre for their donation of peat free compost, and Blessington Educate Together National School for their incredible support!

Our campaign has always called out the numerous benefits from communities and families learning to grow their own, even more important now during COVID.

We continue to campaign and seek land in Blessington to provide families & the local community a space to grow together!

21/01/2021

“I’m thinking more about stuff with a longer shelf life,” said Rossa Cassidy recently at his farm in Glasnevin.

15/01/2021

The Gavins are going to develop a former KFC fast food outlet into an organic drive through, supplied with homegrown food from their Roscommon farm.

09/12/2020

Today we are thrilled to be announced as an Awardee of the Fund from - The support is to develop an Open Food Hub (OFH) as a model for all communities to strengthen food security and local economic resilience through the distribution of local food through the utilisation of an open-source digital marketplace called Open Food Network (OFN).

See all the awardees here https://rethinkireland.ie/awarded_fund/innovate-together-round-2-awards/

03/12/2020

FOR all that pottering about in one’s garden might sound fulfilling, there are many of us who are daunted by the prospect of growing our own plants.

29/11/2020

Exclusive: Brighton has won the first gold Sustainable Food City award – with its pay-as-you-feel cafes, cooking classes for teenagers and a zero-waste community pub o...

23/10/2020

Food business owners are coming up with inventive ways to stay in business, including a pizza ’n’ pints drive-thru in Dundrum

20/10/2020

Official soundcloud page of 103.2 Dublin City fm. Search through the playlists on this page to find your favourite show.

21/09/2020

In Almería’s vast farms, migrants pick food destined for UK supermarkets. But these ‘essential workers’ live in shanty towns and lack PPE as Covid cases soar

12/09/2020

Inspiring Urban Horticultural Enterprises with the newly built Cork Rooftop Farm and the ever amazing Market Gnomes

In metropolitan areas around the world, waste lots, abandoned spaces, empty buildings, and rooftops are being repurposed to grow fruit and ...

10/09/2020

The Gnomes talk with RakeAround all about their urban horticultural enterprise 🌱

Three young urban farming entrepreneurs are generating positive changes in Dublin with their micro-farm.

09/09/2020

BOOKING ESSENTIAL: Many hands make light work. Fancy a day on a farm working with great people in return for lunch and a small bit of veg??? We are holding a meitheal weekend SEPTEMBER 19th &20th. We are looking for volunteers to come and help us out for one or two days. If you come for two days you are welcome to camp overnight for free.

We are hoping to prepare our garden for winter and harvest our potatoes and basically spruce the place up. There will be a range of jobs from hauling manure to make compost, to cleaning the polytunnel, weeding etc... it's a good old day of work and not for the faint hearted. So dig out the wellies, dust off the gloves and join us out in nature for a day.

Due to covid restrictions we are limited to 15 people each day so we are asking people to book. Please do not just turn up.

To book simply send me a private message on Instagram or email me on [email protected].

26/08/2020

25/08/2020

Organic food should not be preserve of rich say volunteers helping provide food banks with fresh produce

03/08/2020

13/07/2020

29/05/2020

Hey Guys!

Our Salad Subscription will be coming to an end next Friday the 5th of June.

Harvesting and delivering fresh produce is a real joy for us and to be able to talk with you directly and get your feedback!

https://marketgnomes.com/products/gnomes-seasonal-salad-box

Why Choose Us?
> We only sell produce that WE grow.
> Our produce is produced using super high quality growing standards. We feed the soil with organic compost, extracts and feeds. This results in a very healthy LIVING soil as apposed to over rotovated soils which lose their structure and in turn ability to produce healthy crops.
> We have NEVER used nasty chemicals.
> Our produce is local, fresh and nutritious.

When You Purchase From Us...
Purchasing from us is worth the extra cost! You are seeing the upfront cost of truly sustainable agriculture. You are paying for the produce which inturn pays to keep the soil healthy, chemical free and building every season. Our soils are getting healtier every season!

Our Guarentee!
We only harvest fresh quality produce for you as, it will last longer, taste better and keep you topped up with the essential nutrients your body needs!

We are opening it up for another 4 weeks and we already have people signing up! So if you would like fresh grub, grown with care by use, delivered directly to you door then don't hesitate and FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW!!

https://marketgnomes.com/products/gnomes-seasonal-salad-box

"Operating in the North Dublin Area within the M50"

20/05/2020

We are very grateful for all the orders the past week, absolutely hectic keeping on top of it! Loads more kits ready for shipping 🍄☕ available online
http://www.urbanfarm.ie/urban-oyster.html

13/05/2020

Shoppers cut spending on ready-made meals and bought more fruit and vegetables, turning to healthier eating during coronavirus lockdowns, preliminary results of a research project showed.

12/05/2020

Dublin City Council has launched a new initiative aimed at mapping the trees we have throughout the city, and seeing where the deficits are. Get involved and download the app today.

More: http://www.dublincity.ie/dublin-tree-map