Menu: Blood orange gin and hand-painted chocolates for Valentine's Day 

— and teachers can sign up for growing kits for schools 
Menu: Blood orange gin and hand-painted chocolates for Valentine's Day 

Sisters, Millie and Pippa Foley, launching GIY and Innocent’s Big Grow 2021 school growing initiative

Good thymes in the garden with GIY

Domestic horticulture and home growing really took off during the first lockdown but it was merely a more widespread aspect of a movement that has been bubbling away underground for quite some time and one organisation that has lit the passion for same over the last decade has undoubtedly been GIY (Grow-It-Yourself), the Waterford-based international NGO. And one of the primary reasons for GIY’s huge success as the most important and progressive food-related advocacy groups has been its focus on children.

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