Group calls on Taoiseach to add food-growing to school curriculum

SELF-SUFFICIENCY organisation Grow it Yourself (GIY) has called upon Taoiseach Enda Kenny to add food-growing to school curriculums.

Furthermore, unused land should be available for community gardens and allotments, GIY told the Taoiseach, when he recently presented the organisation with a 2011 Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Award.

In accepting the award, GIY founder Michael Kelly recalled being in a supermarket five years previously and discovering that the garlic he was about to buy was imported from China. Spurred on by his “garlic incident” to grow his own food, he set up GIY to inspire others to do likewise.