The menu: Grow it yourself

The Menu believes the GIY (Grow It Yourself) organisation, founded by Michael Kelly in Waterford in 2008, to be one of the most important new food movements in many a long year.
The menu: Grow it yourself

and so it is with great pleasure that he heralds the recent official opening of GROW HQ, the GIY National Food Education Centre, to serve as an urban grow school, cookery school, cafe, farm-shop and food gardens.

What’s more, GIY aim to ensure this self-sustaining social enterprise, which has already generated 16 new jobs in Waterford, will attract 250,000 visitors and teach 17,000 people to grow and cook their own food, offering 15 different courses each month for both adults and children, covering growing, cooking, nutrition and sustainable living.

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