Throughout September

This is a great time to be visiting our gardens as nature is once again waking up and all the trees and plants are starting to flower and blossom. Our workshop is based around a nature trail and where our food comes from, mini beast identification, native tree sapling sowing, pond dipping, the pollination cycle, composting and decomposers lifecycle. We are an accredited DPS centre and worksheets and teacher notes are included. 

€8 per child

ISSA exists as a living testimony of the richness and wealth of the agricultural legacy of our ancestors.
Our aim is to:
1) To protect, conserve, research and utilize non-commercial seed, grain, vegetable and fruit varieties.
2) To promote the benefits of agricultural biodiversity.
3) To provide information and to educate the public on agricultural biodiversity locally and globally.
4) To be a working example of successful organic seed and crop production, through growing and distributing Irish grown seed, grain, vegetable and fruit varieties.

Irish seed savers will, with our community subscribers, protect and keep alive open pollinated and non-commercially available vegetables and fruit which yield well in Ireland’s changing climate in order to ensure food security for the future. We will strengthen our knowledge and practical expertise through research, and we will teach and share with others how to produce organic food and seed in a sustainable way.

Seed Saving               Sat4th Sept

Preparing the kitchen garden for the winter season      Sun 5^th Sept

Making the most of your polytunnel all year round    Sat 11^th Sept

How to store and preserve the harvest          Sun 12^th Sept

Making the most of your polytunnel all year round    Sat18^th Sept

Getting the bees ready for winter       Sat 19^th Sept

Apple day for subscribers       Sat 25^th Sept

Apple day Open to the public             Sun 26^th Sept

Introduction to herbal medicine          Sat 2^nd  Oct

Thinking aheaad                     Sat 9^th Oct

Fungi for beginners                 Sat 16^th Oct

Halloween activities                Thurs or Fri 28^th or 29^th Oct

Preparing for a polytunnel      Sat 6^th Nov

Introduction to herbal medicine          Sun 14^th Nov

Christmas activities for children         Sat18^th or Sun 19^th  Dec