Green Ribbon Event 2019 “Untangle Your Thoughts”

This year we have planned an event in St. Anne’s Park Raheny on May 8th at 11.00am to promote the Green Ribbon Campaign.

It’s entitled “Untangle Your Thoughts” and will invite people to free themselves of negative thoughts by replacing them with positive ones – The aim of this is to promote the campaign to as many people as possible in our (soon to be) new community of Raheny. 

We have been granted permission from Dublin City Council to use a small section of the park for our exhibition.

It will consist of two sections of trees – one chaotically decorated with green ribbons and string which will represent tangled thoughts. The other section will be decorated in a more calm, thoughtful way representing untangled thoughts.

People will be asked to write any negative thoughts they may have had on tags and hang them on the tangled section and then write new positive thoughts or affirmations and place them in the untangled section.

The idea is to promote the power of positivity. If we all got into the habit of shutting down the negative thoughts as soon as they enter our heads and replacing them with positive ones maybe we might actually start to believe them!

NEW Horticulture Programme!

Last Thursday marked the start of our brand new Horticulture programme funded by CDETB. We where granted 40 hours which we are very excited about! We were introduced to our instructor Des who really impressed us with his knowledge on horticulture and gardening.

We made plans for the coming weeks and didn’t hang around…we got stuck right in! We started by relaying our strawberry beds, We then pruned our fruit bushes and learned how to take cuttings to be able to replant other bushes in the future.

We are looking forward to the next class!

St. Anne’s Park Rose Festival 2018

Every year during the St. Anne’s Rose festival the allotments open their gates to the public. We are really proud of our allotment and put in a lot of work throughout the year so we were delighted to get a chance to show it off!

This year we planned to make a structure from flower pots but this idea grew legs…pardon the pun and became the tin man! 

We then decided to go all out and give our allotment a “Wizard of Oz” theme for this years festival! We were so happy with the results and would like to thank everyone who gave a helping hand!

“Its not where you go, It’s who you meet along the way” – The Wizard Of Oz

 

Allotment May 2018

A gang of us took a trip down to our beautiful and did i mention award winning allotment yesterday 😉 We had lots to do, we weeded the beds, relayed bark, added entrance stepping stones and pruned the animal shaped hedges in whiskey corner…some of the chickens were in bad need of a hair cut!

Our crops are thriving and we cannot wait to harvest and more so taste them…we have strawberries, lettuce, potato, carrots, chives, an abundance of different herbs, rhubarb, scallions and some beautiful bedding plants to add some colour to our plot.

We are really proud of our allotment and would like to thank everyone who pitched in yesterday! Many hands certainly did make light work!

Our Allotment 

Whiskey Corner

Allotment Update 2018

Well Folks…Due to the bad weather we haven’t got down to our allotment as much as we would have liked  over the past couple of months but we have big plans  now that the good weather decided to make an appearance.

We will be planting a lot of salad vegetables this year so they can be used in Suaimhneas for lunches. We also hope to grow pumpkins for Halloween and have planted some sunflowers so hopefully they’ll take off! We also have planned some really cool art projects including a man made out of flower pots…watch this space!

Last year was a great year for us winning first prize in the best turned around allotment category. Hopefully this year we will  bring home another award!

Last week we had the pleasure of showing Jibrael Younis (previously worked in Genesis Clubhouse) around our allotment!

 By Chris D

 

 

Allotment July 2015

This July our allotments annual BBQ and Open day which is interwoven with the St. Anne’s Rose Festival is coming up and we have been busy here in Suaimhneas getting our Allotment in tip top shape for the day!

This years Rose Festival will be on the 19th of July and all allotments will be open to the public – We would love you to come down and have a look!

Currently growing in our allotment we have potatoes, beetroot, onions, cabbage, leeks strawberry’s, Rhubarb and a herb garden. Chris has been germinating beetroot and carrots in Suaimhneas which will be ready for planting in our allotment next week. They are all coming on really well and we cant wait to taste them – we have been planning delicious meals and desserts that will include some of our home grown produce, we will keep you updated!

Cabbage

 Rhubarb