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South Dublin Allotments Association is listing the following as sources of useful and interesting information on allotments and growing your own food, but does not necessarily support every viewpoint expressed on each website.
A new but rapidly growing(!) organisation is Grow It Yourself Ireland. GIY groups are setting up all around Ireland. Check out www.giyireland.ie for more details.
Grow Ireland provide free blogs for allotments, community gardens, transition towns, etc. and also has links to other blogs, news items and so forth.
Dublin Food Growing. A network of people dedicated to increasing the amount of food grown in Dublin. They are involved with developing food growing projects, advocacy, research, policy, networking, education, and of course growing food.
http://dublinfoodgrowing.org/
Last June 2007 RTE's Nationwide programme came out to the allotments in Tymon Regional Park and chatted with the allotmenteers there. Click this link and then the item labelled 'Allotment gardens growing in popularity' to watch the programme aired on 1st July 2007.
Rathbeggan Lakes Allotments. Another new private allotments site, located between Clonee and Dunshaughlin just off the N3 in County Meath.
http://www.rathbegganlakes.com
Dublin Food Growing. This association aims to promote urban food growing with an eye to food security in the future.
http://dublinfoodgrowing.blogspot.com
Grow Your Own, Ireland's first private allotments site, Oldtown, Co. Meath.
www.growyourown.ie
The Organic Centre, Rossinver, Co. Leitrim
www.theorganiccentre.ie
Wild About Veg, a catalogue of heritage seeds from Heritage Gardening, based in Westmeath.
www.wildaboutveg.com
Irish Seed Savers Association, Capparoe, Scariff, Co Clare
www.irishseedsavers.ie
South Circular Garden, Dublin City
southcirculargarden.blogspot.com
An Irish woman's urban farming diary, recipes, tips etc.
www.growyourownfood.blogspot.com
Slow Food Ireland
www.slowfoodireland.com
Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association
www.irishorganic.ie
Composting Association of Ireland
www.compostireland.ie
An Tairseach - Dominican Farm and Ecology Centre, Co. Wicklow
www.ecocentrewicklow.com
Cultivate, sustainable living and learning centre
www.cultivate.ie
Bakker, a major seed and plant catalogue company
www.bakker-irl.com
An allotmenteer's diary
www.digmyplot.co.uk
National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners (UK)
www.nsalf.org.uk
The Allotment (from the TV programme)
www.allotment.info
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