Grangegorman Community Garden
Nestled within the corner of the 73-acre TU Dublin Grangegorman campus, the new Grangegorman Community Garden is a collaborative garden project 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, divided by gravel paths and surrounded by 12 foliage beds on the periphery. This purpose-built site was developed as part of the initial planting and landscaping plan for the Grangegorman Masterplan, and has been publicly accessible since 2015.
The vision for the community garden gained momentum at the start of 2024, when the Grangegorman Community Garden Committee was put in place to restore this green space as part of a year-long pilot project until December 2024. The aim of the group is to offer educational experiences around sustainability and horticulture, and to develop a sustainable collaborative governance model for a community garden, co-created and trialled by a multi-stakeholder group.
Interested students can sign up here to volunteer.
Follow progress updates from the garden project in the stories featured below.
Meet the Committee Members
Research and References
A short survey of flora on TU Dublin campus, Grangegorman 2022
By Dr Melinda Lyons and second year students of TU835 Environmental Management
Living Lab initiation
To develop the garden pilot, the Committee work under the three-phase structure of the Living Lab Framework; Exploration, Experimentation and Evaluation.
Living Lab experimentation
To develop the garden pilot, the Committee work under the three-phase structure of the Living Lab Framework; Exploration, Experimentation and Evaluation.
