Mayo community garden wins distinction

Irish Seed Savers Association has announced that the Ballina Karen Community Garden is among the ten groups awarded a place on the Community Seed Guardian Programme.

Irish Seed Savers will provide these ten community gardens training and mentoring in seed growing and seed saving with experienced facilitators, learning the steps to enhance seed supply for community gardeners around the island of Ireland, without having to rely on food seed imports to grow their own food.

Training community growing groups to grow and save their own food seed will increase access to seed availability and create greater community engagement with the full food supply from seed to plate.

This training and mentoring programme for communities across Ireland to grow and save their own food seed was developed with funding received through Rethink Ireland’s Innovate Together programme and Community Foundations Ireland.