For the
fourth annual harvest festival of a community garden located in the Terryland
Forest Park, there will be a focus on promoting the concept of residents
getting to known each other better by the simple approach of sitting down
together to enjoy fresh food produce grown in the community organic garden. Tarts,
jams. salads, baked potatoes and pizzas will be on offer, local musicians will
be playing and all attendees are asked to make a small donation towards the project’s
overheads and a special local charity.
As Ireland experienced unprecedented economic and social
change over a few short decades changing from being a rural society to that
of an urbanised environment, alienation has become a huge problem in our
country. A housing estate or any suburban development can often be a lonely
place for an individual even though he/she is surrounded by hundreds even thousands
of people. We have to reverse this trend and start turning 'urban sprawl' into
'urban villages' by amongst other things promoting the hosting of local
neighbourhood events in order to give residents a ‘sense of place’ and a feeling
of ‘community’.
The Neighbourhood Food Together and Harvest Festival in
our community garden is part of this movement of change.
We are asking people to come along and experience a wonderful
neighbourhood facility that inclues an orchard, vegetable plots, herbal
garden, outdoor stage, polytunnel, clay oven, drystone walls and fairy garden
developed over the last four years by local volunteers.
