Hi everyone. The next GIY Dundrum meeting is on Saturday March 12th in Airfield House at 10.30. We will have a talk by Colm O'Driscoll, who is the head gardener in Airfield. His talk is entitled: Grow Soil, Harvest Food

In this talk Colm will discuss vegetable production with a focus on working with the soil biology to produce healthy soil which translates to healthy vegetables. Learn how to reduce your inputs, cut your labour and reap the reward of a more environmentally sustainable method of growing vegetables. The talk will also discuss the evolution of the food garden in Airfield Estate and will include variety recommendations of some of the tastiest vegetables he has grow.

We are paying a fee for this talk so we would ask that those of you who can afford it would make a contribution on the day.

We will meet by the ticket desk at the entrance at 10.30 and go to the Education Cabins from there so that no one gets lost! It would be very helpful if you would let us know if you plan to attend so that we have a sense of the numbers attending.

Looking forward to seeing you all then.

Hi everyone - our GIY monthly meeting on Saturday February 12th 2022 will be first one indoors in Airfield for two years!! If you would like to come along and tell us about your plans for your garden this spring please join us. You can also bring along any spare seeds/seedling to swop.

We will start at the usual time -10.30am and will meet by the ticket booth. If you come along later the staff will be able to tell you where to find us.

Looking forward to seeing you all then.

Hi everyone - our GIY monthly meeting on Saturday October 9th will be a foraging walk around the Airfield Estate. We will be led by a member of Airfield staff and when we arranged these walks before they were very interesting and enjoyable!

We will start at the usual time -10.30am and we will meet near the ticket sales booth. Because we will have the services of a member of Airfield Staff there will be a charge of €15 for attending. Please email [email protected] if you would like to attend.

Looking forward to seeing you all then.

Hi everyone - our GIY monthly meeting on September 11th will feature a talk by Patrick Hunt on growing a wildflower meadow. Patrick has spoken to our group before and is a really wonderful speaker and very talented gardener and biodiversity specialist. You can read more about his work on his website patrickhuntgardening.com.

We will start at the usual time -10.30am but our venue has changed for this meeting only. We will be in room AGR 1.19 in the Agriculture and Food Science Building in UCD Belfield. A member of the committee will be at the entrance of the building to show everyone where to go. We will only be able to accommodate 20 people so please email [email protected] if you would like to go by 1pm on Friday 10th. We will send a map and full directions in reply to your email.

Patrick will have packets of his own yellow rattle seeds for sale on the day.

Looking forward to seeing you all then.

Hi everyone - our GIY monthly meeting for August will take place on Saturday 14th at 10.30am in Airfield House - we won't have access to a room but we will be able to walk the grounds together and catch up on our gardening news. Unfortunately numbers will be limited so please email [email protected] by 1pm on Friday 13th if you are interested in attending. We will need your full name and a phone number as these need to be supplied to Airfield. This time we will also be sending you a link to a form that Airfield has asked everyone to fill in. Also please note that Airfield has asked that we don't park in their car park (there are plenty nearby). Looking forward to seeing you all then.

Hi everyone - our GIY monthly meeting for July will take place on Saturday 10th at 10.30am in Airfield House - we won't have access to a room but we will be able to walk the grounds together and catch up on our gardening news. Unfortunately numbers will be limited so please email [email protected] by 1pm tomorrow Friday 9th before 1pm if you are interested in attending. We will need your full name and a phone number as these need to be supplied to Airfield.

Hi everyone - we have had good news from Airfield! GIY can hold our June meeting there on Saturday (12th) - we won't have access to a room but we will be able to walk the grounds together and catch up on our gardening news. Unfortunately numbers will be limited so please email [email protected] by 1pm tomorrow Friday 11th before 1pm if you are interested in attending. We will need your full name and a phone number as these need to be supplied to Airfield.

Hello everyone and a particular warm welcome to the new members of the Group.

Our March GIY Dundrum meeting will be on Saturday next, April 10th at 10.30 via Zoom.  We had hoped that it would be possible to meet in person this month but unfortunately that is not the case.  However, we have been delighted with the response to the Zoom meetings so we hope you will join us again.  

As usual we would welcome photographs as these are great for starting conversations and the recent cold weather will probably have made lots of people very creative in finding solutions to keep seedlings and young plants frost free.  Please share your solutions with us! For security reasons we only share the Zoom link for our meeting with individuals who are interested in taking part.

Please email [email protected] if you would like to be part of the meeting and we will send you the Zoom link. If you have never used Zoom before don't be put off, it is quite easy to set up on phones, laptops and tablets.Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!

GIY Dundrum Committee

Hello everyone and a particular warm welcome to the new members of the Group. Our March GIY Dundrum meeting will be on Saturday next, March 13th at 10.30 via Zoom. If you are interested and available please also put March 20th in your diary when we have been offered space in the Farmers' Market in Airfield.

We had hoped that it would be possible to meet in person this month but unfortunately that is not the case. However, we have been delighted with the response to the Zoom meetings so we hope you will join us again.

Since our February meeting we have been following up on some of your suggestions. We hope to spend the first part of the meeting on Saturday talking about the organisation of the GIY Dundrum group and in particular how we might adopt a formal constitution. This has many advantages including allowing us to become eligible for DLR CoCo small grants.

The second part of the meeting will be all about spring and planting our fruit and vegetables. As usual we would welcome photographs as these are great for starting conversations.

For security reasons we only share the Zoom link for our meeting with individuals who are interested in taking part. Please email [email protected] if you would like to be part of the meeting and we will send you the Zoom link. If you have never used Zoom before don't be put off, it is quite easy to set up on phones, laptops and tablets.

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!

We were delighted to have so many of you at our February meeting and are very grateful to John O'Toole from Airfield for joining us.  We are continuing to liaise with the team in Airfield to get a little more information on what the various volunteering opportunities are and how we could go about arranging a stall in the Farmers' Market.  As soon as we have a little more information we will get back in touch and make use of the questionnaire that Pauline has drawn up.

Our next GIY Dundrum meeting will be on March 13 and unfortunately because Level 5 restrictions will still apply we fully expect that it will be another Zoom meeting.  However, we will be in touch again next week with more details.

Hello everyone and a particular warm welcome to the new members of the Group. Our February GIY Dundrum meeting will be on Saturday next, February 13th at 10.30 via Zoom. The first part of our meeting will have a short presentation from John O'Toole who is Director of Operations in Airfield House. He is going to tell us about Airfield's ambitions for the future and how we can be involved. Then we will have some time to talk about our own gardens and our plans for the spring. As usual your photos are very welcome as they are a great starting point for discussion and it is great to get advice and suggestions.

For security reasons we only share the Zoom link for our meeting with individuals who are interested in taking part. Please email [email protected] if you would like to be part of the meeting and we will send you the Zoom link. If you have never used Zoom before don't be put off, it is quite easy to set up on phones, laptops and iPads.

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!