Our famous Mudisland Community garden 🎄 Christmas Market 🎄 is back! As always, it will be full of local crafts & produces 🥳 Join us to celebrate the merry season... […]
3pm: Circus Workshop during Mud Island Christmas Markets! We supply all of the props. Let the kids find a new obsession that isn't video games. Circus skills are great for […]
🌿 Join Us at the Mudisland Community Garden Repair Café! 🌿 Discover the joy of fixing things together at our Repair Café! Bring your broken items (nothing with a plug) […]
We will be re-opening the garden on the 1st of February with music and stories, Bridget's cross making and even a Céilí! Join us to shake off the winter months […]
The return of Liam O Maonlai to Mudisland to celebrate IMBOLC, the start of growth in the new year bringing hope for us all! 6:30 Spoken Word with Roxanna Nic Liam & Brian Treacy 7:00 Liam O Maonlai 8:00 Tornaido Fire Show NB: This event had to be moved indoors because of the weather...
Mary is a reformed internationally acclaimed landscape designer who launched her career at the Chelsea flower show in 2002, the story of which was made into a 2016 movie called “Dare to be Wild”. Bestselling author, inspirational speaker, occasional television presenter and founder of the global movement “We are the ARK”, a practical groundswell movement […]
Come to the garden to take part in our "meitheal' - Hometree will be talking about the importance of hedges for biodiversity in Ireland. 2pm: Intro - history of Ireland's woodlands 2.15pm: benefits of native hedgerows and trees in community gardens 2.20pm: prepping group and planting 3.20pm: Tea /coffee and cake. Clinic - Q&A re […]
We're back for the first Repair CLUB instead of Café from 2:30 to 5:30. Come along if you want to check or mend your clothes, bags, soft toys, crockery, jewellery, bikes and garden tools or knives / scissors. We also always welcome volunteers (skills with sewing, mending clothes, jewellery, bike TLC, care of garden tools […]
Our annual party in the garden! We'll have face painting, Richard the clown will be roaming the garden to entertain children, and he'll run a circus skills (plate spinning & juggling) workshop for older children. The Cottage Cafe will be open selling refreshments and we might even have the pizza oven going! Lineup for Open […]
Lavender wands - Saturday 1st August from 2 pm, a peer-led gathering. We're always keen to close the circle on sowing, growing and consuming as well as reducing, reusing and spending […]
Join Hometree (https://www.hometree.ie/) in Mud Island for a fun, hands-on family workshop exploring Ireland's native trees, wildlife and the importance of restoring nature. Through interactive activities, nature based crafts and simple ecological games, children and adults will discover how healthy woodlands support biodiversity, tackle climate change and create thriving places for people and wildlife. Together, we'll explore the […]
Singer and artist Siobhán Kavanagh welcomes you to a discussion about the joy of wild food and how she sources inspiration from wild plants and flowers for songs. Come sample, taste and curiously explore a selection of wild foraged tea. Wild food and knowledge is present in traditional/folk song and for this workshop – participants […]
This year’s FSAS Summer School focused on reanimating the bonds of community by exploring histories of resistance, looking at how to sustain urban commons and learning from people who are actively trying to do these things in their communities. It provided a space to come together and learn, with the hope that participants will bring […]
We surveyed 16 m2 in total around the margins and found 21 plant species (maybe a couple more if we can identify the different grasses) – of these at least 2/3 are native species which is great! The Biodiversity Action Group meets on the 1st Sunday of the month in the garden from 10 am […]
