Fingal Integration Funding Scheme

I would like to announce that we have been sucessful in our application to Fingal county council Integration funding scheme. Fingal Integration Funding Scheme for 2011 aims to promote intercultural integration in the County. The Scheme, which is funded by the Office of the Minister for Integration (OMI), may provide grants to groups and projects working towards enhancing the participation and integration of Fingal’s Ethnic Community.

Our littlest members!

Flowers For Applewood

To say a big thank you to Damien and Florence from the Boulangerie Francaise two members Aiveen and David planted flowers outside the bakery on the weekend. Damien and Florence have been very supportive throughout all the planning. Letting us have meetings in their bakery and donating pastries to our bulb planting days, not to mention the fantastic soup on our tree planting day! The panseys were donated by B & Q in swords. Thanks guys they look lovely!

Grow You Own Classes

On Sunday the 26th March Michael Connolly was very kind and opened up his Rolestown Garden Centre early for a special grow you own class for Broadmeadow Community Garden and GIY members. Michaels expertise and knowledge of gardening and growing veg is amazing. We all learned how to sow seeds, what type of soils to use, how to pot on and how to give our little baby seedling the best growing environment to grow great Veg. Even the littlest of our gardeners got to plant some seeds! We visited the Veg plot in the garden centre which has raised beds, fruit bushes, chickens and ducks! All the members who were there got so much from the class. We would like to give a big thank you to Michael and the staff in Rolestown for all their help.

Tree Planting Day! 12 Mar 11am

11am - 12pm Planting fruit trees

12pm - 12:30 pm Break and refreshments

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Finish planting trees, herb and seed sowing.
Childrens painting

Please RSVP to broadmeadowgarden@gmail.com

It's starting to take shape!!!

Our garden is starting to take shape!

Even with the awful weather the students of Teagasc struggled on and began building the fencing on our community garden. It looks fantastic!.

There will be some alterations to the plan needed as the council said the maintenance entrance was too small but that's only minor.

We will be meeting at 11am Saturday 19 Feb at our new garden!. This is just an informal meet up and we can plan then when to continue on with the wonderful work that was started!.

Take a look at our garden so far!

A huge thank you to Teagasc for their great work

Newsflash: Community Foundation Grant

More great news!!!

The Broadmeadow Community Garden received a letter from the Community Foundation for Ireland stating that we have been awarded a grant for our garden.

About the Community Foundation for Ireland:

The Community Foundation for Ireland seeks to inspire donors and support charities and community groups. Established in 2000 we have made grants on behalf of donors of over €6million, mostly in Ireland.

Things are looking good for our garden project.

Don't forget the meeting on Saturday!.

Sat 12 Feb 11am Applewood Village empty unit as usual.

We will be doing the following for the Garden:
- Writing a health and Safety Statement/ Assessment for fencing next Tuesday.
- Assessing materials needed and purchasing.
- Future planning.
- Grants

Please also return membership forms asap to Deirdre our treasurer with relevant fees.