Community Gardens for Wellbeing
What is ‘the good life’? Am I in charge of my own health? How does access to green space affect me and my community?
A recent study by TU Dublin researchers has shown that community gardens are crucial parts of local communities, and can have many positive benefits for people's physical and mental wellbeing.
In this Community Gardens for Wellbeing workshop led by GAP, we will:
- Highlight some of the challenges people experience globally and locally to our pursuit of a healthy, good life,
- Identify how a community garden can support better local communities and be a site for action for sustainable living,
- Discuss how people's health and wellbeing is being - and will be - impacted by the climate crisis, and how community gardens can be spaces to respond meaningfully and locally to these challenges.
Places are limited to a small group - secure your ticket here
Event details: Friday, 21 Jun 2024 12:30 - 14:00pm, at the Grangegorman Community Garden, TU Dublin, Grangegorman campus, Grangegorman Lower, D07 H6K8 Dublin 7. Garden is located behind the Church of Ireland Church.
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About the Grangegorman Community Garden
A new community garden living lab is piloting at the 73-acre TU Dublin Grangegorman campus, as a collaboration between Technological University Dublin, Dublin 7 Educate Together National School (D7 ETNS), the Grangegorman Development Agency (GDA), and Workday, with support from Hooke and MacDonald through TU Dublin Foundation. This corner site, located between the sports pitches and the back of the Church of Ireland Church, is made up of four allotment-style beds and was developed as part of the initial planting and landscaping plan for the Grangegorman Masterplan. The vision for the garden gained momentum at the start of 2024, when the Grangegorman Community Garden Committee was put in place to restore this space and to offer educational experiences around sustainability and horticulture, and to develop a sustainable collaborative governance model for a community garden.