Grangegorman Community Garden - Meet the Committee members - School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology
The School of Culinary Arts & Food Technology at TU Dublin is heavily invested in the Grangegorman Community Garden, with cross-disciplinary participation, offering education, support, and expertise to the pilot project. As members of the Grangegorman Community Garden Committee, and active growers in the garden, the school play a key role to develop the garden space and offer practised-based learning to students.
We want to provide the opportunity for our allotment in the Grangegorman Community Garden to act as an outdoor classroom, where students can learn first-hand about the soil and where all our food comes from. This experiential learning will enable our students to create a favourable food environment for a sustainable and healthy future.
Interest
To bring students with a passion for food and show them where food comes from and how it grows - the beds will enable hands-on, experiential and applied learning about growing and producing food sustainably while also learning about soil and biodiversity.
Desired Outcome
We want to build on our existing amenities located at our Blanchardstown (GLAS @TU Dublin) and Tallaght campus (Airfield Community Garden collaboration) - enabling students at Grangegorman to build their capacity and awareness of sustainable horticultural practices, taught through peer learning and with expert advice from horticultural lecturers. We want to advance what they learn in the garden to what happens in the kitchen: cooking and preserving techniques and sharing newly developed recipes to our community.
Contribution
We would like to organise field trips with students from primary and secondary schools showing them the link between soil, growing food and cooking.