The Menu: Hosting a Community GROWbox and a look into an apple farm in Tipperary

Joe McNamme gives up the latest news from the Irish food world.
The Menu: Hosting a Community GROWbox and a look into an apple farm in Tipperary
Thu, 02 Jul, 2020 - 14:00
Joe McNamee

Waterford-based GIY are collaborating with Energia for a Get Ireland Growing initiative with €10,000 worth of food growing kits to be given away to budding horticulturalists of all ages and levels of experience. A Community GROWbox features a bespoke ‘seed library’, enabling hundreds of growers to grow their own food and provide sustenance for the pollinators this summer.

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