tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73773490287980590592024-03-12T01:25:53.857+00:00the GROW networkGROW is a network of environmental educators and energy specialists based in Co. Kildare.
GROW specialises in setting up organic school garden projects, teaching organic horticulture and gardening, setting up 'grow your own' plots in peoples gardens and developing community gardens in various settings. GROW also works in natural and recycled art.theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065497440034884541noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-20074676810326579412015-04-27T18:10:00.003+01:002015-04-27T18:13:30.846+01:00Forest School Training - Galway, July 2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">There a still a few places left on the Forest School training course in Galway, well worth doing if you're interested in getting kids out into nature again and if you're inner kid is dying to go an play in the woods!</span><br />
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There has been a bee study done in the UK by Friends of the Earth which has had some pretty interesting findings regarding the best habitats for the stuggling bee populations both bumble and honeybee - with Allotments coming out on top! Have a read.</div>
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theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996126885892122527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-86092324408905753982014-06-25T16:46:00.000+01:002015-02-13T15:11:30.649+00:00SEAI CPD Training-Exploring our Energy<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Training up to train teachers in energy science education for primary schools! Kids are gonna love this! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The programme explores the current science curriculuum in a pracitcal way, using all of the new spiral learning approaches and incoroporating activities such as design and make and a load of fair test science experiements, you'll never look at an egg or a chocolate button in the same way again.</span></span><br />
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Mission accomplished, group members stand around and admire their handiwork. Okay, they are not going to have to sleep in it tonight but that doesn’t stop them clambering in to get a feel of it – the leaf-covered, earthy base and the scratchy, twig walls of the dim interior.</div>
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It’s the stuff of childhood – at least it should be. But within the space of one generation, a gulf has opened between children and nature as their freedom to roam and play outdoors has been drastically curtailed.</div>
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Instead they turn to television and the internet for entertainment while, in the words of <em>Last Child in the Woods</em> author <a class="search" href="http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Richard%20Louv&article=true" style="color: #003399; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none;">Richard Louv</a>, they are kept under “well-meaning, protective house arrest”.</div>
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By depriving children of the chance to negotiate outdoor challenges independently, we’re in danger of raising a generation of physically inept, risk-averse softies, with no wish to get their hands dirty.' </div>
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theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996126885892122527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-23779956865083900742014-02-05T15:56:00.002+00:002014-02-05T15:58:10.698+00:00Forest Schools Training Course...in progress.<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Serious concentration a happening during the first ever Forest Schools Training that happened in Wicklow last week, basically we got to play in the woods for the week!!!!</span><br />
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<br />theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02912609382870098530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-62724985802147878952014-01-22T16:30:00.004+00:002014-02-05T15:48:02.383+00:00Summer Camp with a twist...<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wildcraft summer Camp.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your kids will finish this weel with a new curiosity about nature and have creative tools to go outdoors and make fun for themselves!</span><br />
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groups: </span><span style="text-align: center;">Teens</span><span style="text-align: center;"> 13-15</span><span style="text-align: center;"> yrs, </span><span style="text-align: center;">9-12</span><span style="text-align: center;"> yrs, and </span><span style="text-align: center;">6-8</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">yrs</span>.</span></span></h3>
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three days €80, or per day €30 When: <st1:time hour="10" minute="0" w:st="on">10am–3pm</st1:time>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wildcraft * Storytelling * Camouflage *
Wildlife Tracking * Wild-Plant Identification * Games </span></span></h3>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">* Plant Food and Medicine * Folklore
* Ethical Foraging & Eating * Indigenous tools * Camp-Craft</span></span></h3>
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</span><span style="text-align: center;">No. 65 Bus, bus stops just a few minutes walk
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="text-align: center;">To Book:</b><span style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.earthforceeducation.com/">www.earthforceeducation.com</a>
or call Ciara 086 3199 515, or Lucy 087 650 8226</span></span></h3>
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<br />theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02912609382870098530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-42937925211134310672013-04-18T02:39:00.006+01:002013-04-24T00:26:24.614+01:00Tree Nursery Project at Donadea Forest, October 2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qSU-vITGYdm0ONLtNZkOFKhJTDhg9IeYCqhTYt6Ri2CAwy8WOtgEVYlL0Wgh6ZP0v3fDnACejE1R7_1jiAh2V3UfQsSi2KAMxf4qfZK4Ad4rwm_2gnvs-pjOqn8BimpOrjCeJRDS895r/s1600/553773_10151084385121231_87558040_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qSU-vITGYdm0ONLtNZkOFKhJTDhg9IeYCqhTYt6Ri2CAwy8WOtgEVYlL0Wgh6ZP0v3fDnACejE1R7_1jiAh2V3UfQsSi2KAMxf4qfZK4Ad4rwm_2gnvs-pjOqn8BimpOrjCeJRDS895r/s320/553773_10151084385121231_87558040_n.jpg" width="240" /></a>In the autumn of 2012 we carried out our LA21 funded project - Native Tree Nursery Project at Donadea Forest in North Kildare. We worked with three local primary schools, three different classes, 2nd class from Scoil Naomh Mhuire, 4th class from Rathcoffey NS and 6th class from Tir Moghan NS.<br />
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The schools came to Donadea for a full immersion in the woods, we gathered tree seeds from the sweet chestnut, maple, beech, sycamore, Hawthorne berries and rosehips from the wild rose, horse chestnut and a small amount of ash keys, there were no oak to be found this year, and we were too late for hazel.<br />
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We also played various sensory games to raise the childrens' awareness of their surroundings, we did bug hunts and pond dips, and had wonderful days all in all in the woods.<br />
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We followed this up with a trip to the schools to build and set up a tree nursery in the school itself. With the class we built a small raised bed, filled it with soil and leaf mould, and then put in our gathered tree seeds, in separate sections so we can identify the baby trees as they grow, this was topped with leaves to replicate the forest floor, a system called the Dunemann System.<br />
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To finish we made a wire mesh lid to keep the vermin at bay, mice especially love to eat tree seeds. And tree nursery beds done. The class have to keep an eye on the beds, water it in especially droughty periods and take the lid off in spring when the trees hopefully start to grow!<br />
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theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02912609382870098530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-41825875626365271772013-03-20T01:04:00.001+00:002013-04-24T00:20:23.182+01:00ONE MILLION TREES IN ONE DAY at The Acre Project<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Earlier this year I put in an application to the ONE MILLION TREES IN ONE DAY Project for the ACRE Project in Celbridge. We were successful in the application! So, on Friday 26th April we will be planting over 1,000 native trees and hedgerow plants at the ACRE Project in Celbridge! If you're interested in getting involved just let me know, we'll have students from the Salesians, the TY's and LCA's and my adult FETAC class involved on the day. Really excited to be involved and leading the planting project! Check out more about this really exciting project at: <a href="http://www.onemilliontreesinoneday.com/" target="_blank">http://www.onemilliontreesinoneday.com/</a></span></span></span><br />
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theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996126885892122527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-82811055674788098742013-03-05T23:04:00.002+00:002013-03-20T01:06:08.419+00:00From the Ground Up...representing Holy Trinity School Garden<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fionnuala Fallon, horticulturalist and Irish Times journalist has published a book, 'From the Ground Up' that tells the stories of some very talented and very different `ticklers of the earth', all of whom live and garden in Ireland today. From schoolchildren to retirees, amateurs to experts, what they share in common is a delight in growing their own fruit and vegetables.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most notable for me, she visited our amazing organic school garden in Holy Trinity National School in Donaghmede in North County Dublin over three years ago now, I had completely forgotten about it until I saw myself in print and in photos in the book at Christmas. It's a really good read, and really promotes the positive aspects of developing gardens in schools! To read more about rthe book see below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.collinspress.ie/from-the-ground-up.html</span>theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996126885892122527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-40448401793474420652013-03-05T13:17:00.002+00:002013-03-20T01:12:48.796+00:00Heritage in Schools Scheme is Open for Bookings!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was invited in to work with Dublin Zoo this summer on their teacher training course and on their summer camps. They have a purpose built school garden now in the zoo with a vegetable patch, fruit area, composter and pond for dipping in, as well as a purpose built classroom and a kind of urban farm next door complete with cows, sheep, goats and pigs.<br />
I spent 2 days teaching primary teachers about how to set up their own organic school garden, I covered garden design elements and how to re-design your school grounds, seeding seeds, planting potatoes and science in the garden experiments.<br />
The summer camps were run over 5 weeks during the summer, I was only doing one day a week on them, and fair play to the rest of the staff in the zoo for doing them full time during that time, don't know if I would have had the energy! I did some veg tasting, seed in a pot, mini-gardens,pond dipping and bug hunting in the school garden, it was a busy day in the zoo.theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996126885892122527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-71262738425469298002012-11-07T19:09:00.002+00:002012-11-18T22:27:00.900+00:00Team Willow rocking it at Body and Soul Festival June 2012I returned for a second time to the Body & Soul Festival at Ballinlough Castle in Co. Westmeath with an increased Team Willow in tow this time! Myself and Cathy Eastman (good friend from days working down at Kerry Earth Education Project - see link below!) led team willow. Our main project was building and decorating the main entrance into the main stage area, see piccys below. We combined tissue and willow discs with a simple criss-cross willow fence at the base, and our saviour Rob built us the basic archway on which to erect all our art work! We also made large dry willow and tissue trees which decorated the main stage area, the usual ground lanterns in the woods, a few other small projects, oh and most importantly, there was a festival baby born to our decor boss while we were there! very exciting!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Zcj-z04iyNPuqHAQJU6xMpvrYZBYYH2rtlAeUK5JT4DmUsVGYG4oAKOfm_GH-5C4l7x1_CP6zCo77ZFvQS9mF3L461iuwdBoBBts0ijoHZuDm889SPgJ6DGQn2fMrrFu_MnN5Cv95KHM/s1600/woodland+education.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Zcj-z04iyNPuqHAQJU6xMpvrYZBYYH2rtlAeUK5JT4DmUsVGYG4oAKOfm_GH-5C4l7x1_CP6zCo77ZFvQS9mF3L461iuwdBoBBts0ijoHZuDm889SPgJ6DGQn2fMrrFu_MnN5Cv95KHM/s200/woodland+education.jpg" width="160" /></a>Early in 2012 we received LA21 funding from Wicklow County Council to run a Woodland heritage Education Programme in Hollywood Woods,, Hollywood, Co. Wicklow. We worked with four different primary schools in the local area, bring them to the woods for a complete woodland immersion day. We played tracking and hide and sneak game, we deprived the kids of their sight by blindfolding them and leading them through the woods, we hunted for the bugs of the woodland, we tasted all the tasty edibles there are to be found in the ditches, looked at the trees talked about plants and their uses, we packed loads in and the day just flew, with the kids going home exhilarated and mucky and totally immersed in the woods! Job done!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgYy4OMt_MS14LJySP0axHGId3O_VKo2O4EMChyphenhyphenGFzL8eBlgZONVC7kPY_Yf3SiftPmmvpqiIM9ourhcrQMkpwOY0E2nhJTMvOM6D0qBm7E6Sv7EC2ovESensik2EIvts1kGj62Yg7cwO/s1600/woodland+project+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgYy4OMt_MS14LJySP0axHGId3O_VKo2O4EMChyphenhyphenGFzL8eBlgZONVC7kPY_Yf3SiftPmmvpqiIM9ourhcrQMkpwOY0E2nhJTMvOM6D0qBm7E6Sv7EC2ovESensik2EIvts1kGj62Yg7cwO/s200/woodland+project+2.jpg" width="200" /></a>For this project I linked up with my good friend and colleague Ciara Hinksman at Earthforce Education, you can check out what Ciara does here: <a href="http://www.earthforceeducation.com/">http://www.earthforceeducation.com/</a><br />
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<br />theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996126885892122527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-2543549389923512962012-09-10T18:54:00.002+01:002012-11-07T19:14:45.545+00:00Herb Spiral in St.Finian's NS, May 2012<br />
In May, we continued with our ongoing school garden programme at St. Finian's NS in Finglas. This time we built a herb spiral in place of the old herbacious border that the school wanted removed from the front of the school. With 4th class we built a very magical spiral bed into which we planted a huge variety of herb plants, from medicinal to colourful to culinary herbs, rosemary, sage, thyme, marigolds etc.<br />
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It had been a while, but I went across to Tullamore today to work with Geraldine O'Toole from Sonairte. We did a school garden design day for the school. We worked with 4th class for the day, bringing them through the whole process of redesigning their school grounds from the perspective of making it into an Outdoor Classroom. so we went through the possible elements - vegetable patch, woodland, pond, orchard, fruit area, wild area etc, then we went outside and mapped the grounds, measuring the buildings and green spaces and auditing the site so we knew what the school already had onsite. Then in the afternoon we returned to the classroom and together with the kids we came up with the design that you see here in the picture, a fabulous 10-year plan for the school to work towards. We already made some preliminary plans to come back and start building the vegetable patch in a few weeks!theGROWnetworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996126885892122527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377349028798059059.post-111723849121438842012-09-10T17:52:00.000+01:002012-11-07T19:17:04.886+00:00Progress being made at Piper's Hill, April 2012<br />
The ladies are making huge progress in the new school garden we're building for the students down at Piper's Hill School in Naas, Co. Kildare. I'm working with a parent's group to develop the garden, and it has turned out to be an all women's group, but let that not deceive you, there has been trojan work done by the ladies, during April we built the beds for and planted up the herb and fruit areas in the garden. We planted raspberries, currants, strawberries, and rhubarb to name a few!<br />
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