Sustainable Skerries

Just to let all allotment holders know that the conventional and transition allotments were sprayed with weedkiller last week by Fingal COCo. It is advisable not to dig for at least 10 days, so that the...

Skerries Allotments Association (A subgroup of Sustainable Skerries) have organised two work sessions this weekend Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th Feb at 10am finishing at 12 noon. Bring your wellies and...

Sustainable Skerries’ Community Harvest Group held its second public meeting on Thursday 20th January in the Sailing Club. The Community Harvest Group (CHG) is a partnership between a local organic farmer and...

I don’t normally make New years resolutions, but…. this year I have decided to learn some new resiliency skills. Learning to sew, make bread, that type of stuff. One of the...

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) is a Paris based intergovernmental organization established within the framework of the (OECD) in 1974 right after the oil crisies of 1973. The IEA was initially dedicated to...

This is a short update on the status of the Community Harvest Group – Skerries. We have replied to everyone who expressed an interest in joining the CHG. At this stage...

Risk of Flooding in Skerries Sunday night and Monday morning Met Eireann have issued a flood warning for Dublin coastal areas, for Sunday night and Monday morning. They are tracking an area...

Sustainable Skerries is launching the Community Harvest Group. This is a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). CSA’s are a partnership between the people in the local community and the grower where we all work together to...

Sustainable Skerries has started running a series of workshops with the Skerries Community College transition Year students. Subjects we are examining are Peak Oil, Food, Water, Transport and Resilience. We will...

Another very successful day up at the allotments. We got up to the fields at 10am, finished up at 1pm, just before the heavens opened and watered the newly sown grass...