Sustainable Skerries

Sustainable Skerries has just won the Comhar /Tidy Towns National Sustainable Development Award for 2011. This is fantastic news for Skerries and a great recognition of all the work and effort...

The skerries allotments, community area got its baptism of fire with the Pig BBQ, which was a great success. The weather turned a little damp in the evening, but that didn’t deter many...

Short notice: We will be holding a barbeque today (Sunday 31 July) up at allotments. Starts at 6pm, come early and help, we will be BBQing a pig over a fire. We...

The evening of Wednesday 8th June, Sustainable Skerries hosted Eanna ní Lamhna, botanist, educator and broadcaster on RTÉ radio’s Mooney Show, in the Little Theatre. Eanna gave an extremely interesting talk on Climate...

 Sustainable Skerries are pleased to host Éanna Ní Lamhna for an informative talk, and question & answer session on Wednesday 8th June in the Little Theatre. Éanna is a well known environmentalist, author,...

The Post Carbon Institute based in California have just published this excellent article on security and resilience in a post carbon world. Although the article mainly discusses the issue from an American perspective,...

The Skerries Community Harvest Group got off to a flying start on Saturday morning, at 11am at the Farmers Market by Skerries Mills! The vegetables boxes were all beautifully presented, thanks...

Here’s the thing, I’m not big into joining associations, clubs and such like. But. (there’s always a but…) after being up working my new allotment for the past month, I really...

Launch of Skerries Community Harvest Group (CHG) The Skerries CHG first veg boxes will be ready on Saturday May 7th, and to celebrate the CHG will be holding a launch at Skerries Mills at 11am...

At last we are digging up our own allotments. The sun shone on us all last week as we started to get the plots ready for the first early potatoes going...