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Leighlin Parish Community Garden, County Carlow – Photo credit: Philippa Jennings<\/p><\/div>\n

When people connect great things can happen and community gardens are no exception. On the 8th March community gardeners from Ireland and Northern Ireland will be meeting in County Galway to help and support one another to gain more from this form of group gardening. The following gives an insight into the network as well as Doorus Community Orchard, the location of our March networking event.<\/p>\n

Community Gardens in Ireland<\/h2>\n

Many of you will be aware that I’m one of the coordinators of the Community Gardens Ireland<\/a> (CGI) that was established in 2011, primarily to support community gardens in Ireland and Northern Ireland, but also allotments and Community Supported Agriculture schemes.<\/p>\n

Generally CGI offers a virtual network of support with its Facebook Group.<\/a> However, we also run a Twitter<\/a> feed as well as a Facebook Page<\/a> and Group<\/a> for anyone who doesn’t want to register for the forum and we aim to meet up in person every three or four months in various locations around the country.<\/p>\n

Apart from getting a glimpse at other community gardens when we get together in various locations, the networking events also give us an opportunity to meet fellow community gardeners who we’ve struck up friendships with online, as well as swap ideas, pick up tips and learn from one another or any of the expert speakers invited to join us.<\/p>\n

Doorus Orchard Community Garden, Kinvara, Co Galway<\/h2>\n

The next Community Garden Network get together will be taking place in Doorus Orchard Community Garden in Kinvara, County Galway on 8th March from 10am until 4.30pm<\/strong> and anyone involved or interested in community gardening is welcome.<\/p>\n

The community garden network is mtg in #Galway<\/a> on 08\/03, would be great to see lots there for the first one this yr. pic.twitter.com\/xPO2jlkYbd<\/a><\/p>\n

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