new community garden up and running in Phibsboro

by dunk Sun Feb 26, 2006 22:01

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garden signpost @ cross guns bridge

new garden on botanic spine attempted CPUL

canal is situated between the canal and the railway, look for the second sign

3 minutes from town and you feel your in the countryside

by dunk Sun Feb 26, 2006 22:06

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the soil is ready for planting

the herb garden

herb garden as heart with squat symbol

the compost heap

....and its contents

by dunk Sun Feb 26, 2006 22:19

forgot to mention; the dolphins barn crew got a couple of hundred euros grant from the city council and the "greening the city" exhibition will appear in this weekends anarchist bookfair which is happening in the nicholas of myra centre on francis st.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/73771
http://anarchistbookfair2006.blogspot.com/

willow cuttings for new den

life happens, bulbs begin to grow

snowdrops in the garden

gardener reads about a very successfull 20+ year old project in central london

a rough plan for the future garden

by dunk Sun Feb 26, 2006 22:27

link to publicity of this weekends tree planting:
greening the city - tree planting weekend
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74481

alexis plants an aqualigia flower into the garden

the trees arrive

laura plants a baby beech

a bag of beech and a bag of larch

job done, hands dirtied

by redjade Mon Feb 27, 2006 00:34

Dunk

are you aware that with Oscailt 3.0 it is no longer necessary to cross link every post you ever made?

At the top of the screen it says: 'Recent articles by dunk'
which leads to http://indymedia.ie/newswire?author_name=dunk
which has ALL of your authored posts

yet another cool thingie from the Oscailt crew :-)

by dunk Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:31

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map of phibsboro community garden

by dunk Mon Feb 27, 2006 15:07

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74397&comment_limit=0&c...40096

we will hopefully have a mail list up and running soon for the phibs garden

by dunk Tue Mar 07, 2006 15:04

1- intro
2-mosaic art bench/ ground art
3-communication
4-paddys weekend
5-trees
6- more info

intro; greening the city, connecting communities
since last year in dublin we have set up 2 new community gardens and made attempts to create a greenway for the city. we hope to do more and more, a lot of people from all walks of life and backrounds are involved; its a really great project to be invovled in- we hope to push it more this year

mosaic art bench/ ground art
ruths proposal for a mosaic piece in dolphins barn garden is great
maybe a little, or not so little, mosaic bench could be made like gaudi's lovely bench in parc guel in barcelona, see link for more images
maybe this could be a really nice event to happen during the paddys weekend
architect herman hertzberger did a community garden in a housing block exactly like this; invited the whole community for a big day or weekend of smashing plates and setting bits in benches, really lovely stuff

communication- article
we are trying to take things up a step with communication about the project and to whom- we are currently putting an article together about the project ; greening the city, sustainable cities, community invovlement, dolphins barn garden, phibsboro garden and a lot more....... we hope to circulate this around so the article is a joint effort

communication- website
we said in the garden last sunday that we could do a worksop to update the website, include links to a lot of the stuff which is all over the place at the moment ; audio, posters, text, links to other gardens etc.... we can pick a date for this later

communication- exhibition
the exhibition we had in dolphins barn public library might make its way to phibs library soon
we had a greening the city stall at the anarchist bookfair which went down pretty well, audio and film interviews were done, more on that later

greening the city ; because we have only 1 home

communication- film
we are trying to get vid cameras down to get stuff to make a short film with revolt

communication- website
perhaps we could contact duncan stewarts eco eye show and see if he would highlight the project

communication- outreach
further outreach is needed, maybe we can make up a groovy poster to put up around the dolphins barn, teresas gardens, rialto, fatima mansions area, shop windows, community centres etc- also submit it and article to all local newsletters, websites etc

communication- network
improved system to network with other irish groups etc, should come into website, but maybe a few visits later in the year, and also with seed savers and celt in clare
the phibs crew are getting a riseup list similar to dolphins barn list

paddys weekend
really make a lovely event for paddys weekend
that weekend will be followed by a weekend in phibs garden.
coincidently enough, it is great that the 19 bus connects the 2 gardens
belfast garden are having a garden birthday party on paddys day, picnic and all the rest
not sure what cork crew are up to

trees:
theres a load of fruit trees in, so maybe in a few short years we can be enjoying a meal with our own home brew wine and beer
kevin has talked about another tree walk, hopefully we can visit the old trees in sheriff st and see how they are doing, maybe get another garden going
theres been tree walks in cork

more info see

that eco city idea is starting to take off in china
http://easa.antville.org/stories/1294501/

by dunk Mon Mar 13, 2006 14:18

info about group
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/phibsboro_community_garden
to email the phibs garden crew send email to :
phibsboro_community_garden@lists.riseup.net

by Organic Thu May 14, 2009 03:24

Community Gardens are nice in many ways. It's also helpful to add information regarding organic gardening.