We live in strange times and all must make sacrifices of some kind or another but here in Ireland the covid outbreak has had an unexpected consequence: an upsurge of interest...
Sabine McKenna writes: I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. While on a train. While walking. While in the garden. Folding laundry. Packing a suitcase before going away. Doing the...
Sustainable Skerries recently held their second Repair Café, and it was an even bigger success than the first. The venue was changed for this event; being held this time in the...
Charlie Heasman; 6th Nov 2019 Hi, to start off I should apologise for the blatant click bait that is the heading above; allotment gardening cannot save the planet, but I...
Back in September Charlie Heasman from Sustainable Skerries was invited to talk at the Wellness Festival in Skerries Mills. The talk never took place. Unfortunately he had been allocated the first...
Charlie Heasman; 10/10/2019 Skerries allotment holders have been focusing their attention a lot lately on issues of soil management and sustainability. First was a visit from Klaus Laitenberger during which...
Sustainable Skerries scooped two awards at County Hall, Swords on Thursday. The occasion was the Fingal Greener Communities awards presented by Fingal County Council. Forty awards were given to individuals and...
Charlie Heasman, 30th Sept 2019 Last Saturday Skerries Allotments played host to Irish organic gardening guru Klaus Laitenberger. To call him Irish is perhaps a misnomer; he is an introduced...
Charlie Heasman; 12th July 2017 It’s been a funny old growing year so far – but then aren’t they all? – and in our allotment we’ve so far had our...