Coole Eco Community, Co. Offaly

27/05/2025

Siobhan Lavelle, qualified horticulturist, who created and maintained forest gardens, agroforestry, edible ornamental gardens, windbreak hedges and vegetable gardens at Coole Eco Community is now offering her gardening services to the public.

She specialises in food and biodiversity but does all kinds of gardening jobs, including weeding, hedge cutting, specialised pruning, planting and soil improvements.

Design, consultancy, setup and maintenance. Midlands and Dublin.

We highly recommend her. This is her business page:
https://www.facebook.com/wildcraftgardensireland/

Qualified horticulturist and permaculture designer, specialising in low maintenance gardens that incorporate biodiversity and/or food. No harmful chemicals. 15 years' experience designing, creating and maintaining gardens and innovative food systems.

14/05/2025

Lupins, ground ivy and garlic mustard - all edible, beautiful and supporting biodiversity!

12/05/2025

Break free from our current crisis of imagination and start creating a better world! Permaculture is a set of design tools that can help us to care for the natural world and make our own lives easier at the same time. It starts with observing and understanding nature. When we let nature teach us, we can become co-creators in the processes that are already happening instead of fighting against them. Join us for this introductory online workshop and begin your adventure into this realm of innovative, holistic problem solving and endless possibilities.

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01/05/2025

Preparations for Bealtaine Celebration. On Saturday, from 12pm until late, We will have a shamanic drum journey, market crafts, celtic fire ceremony, potluck meal and music session.

You are welcome to join us for all or any parts of it. This is a free event. Donations are welcome for some parts and we ask people to bring food and firewood if they're attending the evening.

DM or call Siobhán on 0892196045 for more info or to reserve your place.

18/04/2025

Learn a whole new way of gardening that is more relaxed, more natural and easier on your back.

7th of June
10am to 5pm
€40 to €70

This is a practical workshop in which participants will have the opportunity to learn from and further develop our on-site forest gardens. This workshop includes theory, design, group work and planting. It is suitable for beginners and more experienced gardeners and the techniques you will learn can be applied to any sized garden.

For more info and tickets:
https://cooleecocommunity.ie/forest-gardening/

15/04/2025

Join us for a stroll in nature as we identify and taste the beautiful wild plants growing around us.

https://cooleecocommunity.ie/foraging-walk/