Sowing the Seeds of a sustainable community garden on campus
The GLAS at TU Dublin Community Garden on TU Dublin's Blanchardstown campus was originally the site of the Horticulture discipline practical area. When the new Horticulture Complex opened in 2014 at an adjacent site on campus, the process of creating the community garden began.
The garden had many successes and many years of community involvement albeit on a sporadic basis. For a period, anti-social behaviours at the site took over and then the garden fell into decline. Through the peaks and troughs of juggling classes and trying to develop the garden on limited resources, the full potential of the garden was still in a visionary phase.
Senior Lecturer from TU Dublin's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Michael McKeever, proposed re-establishing the community garden with environmental charity Global Action Plan (GAP). It was under this new partnership that the GLAS at TU Dublin Community Garden came to life as a shared space for growing, learning, and community engagement.
Since 2022, the garden is under the management and care of former B.Sc. (Hons) Horticulture graduate Lee Geoghegan. Lee has transformed the space into a bountiful, joyous and welcoming garden for the whole community.
