A green Christmas gift to the people of Galway: Connecting Galway's past to Galway's future.
Thanks to the genoursity and foresight of Tuatha volunteer Ruan Kelly
and his mom, we now have in Terryland Forest Park a sapling grown from a
seed of the elm tree which has stood proudly for decades at the front
of Galway city's oldest church that dates back to 1320.
Ruan's
family for years had a lovely popular food stall at the St. Nicholas
Market serving the most beautiful vegetarian dishes. Thankfully for us
they managed to obtain some wind blown seed and then nurtured it in
their home garden for many years.
Tuatha
volunteers Andreas Almqvist, Victor Whitmarsh and myself recently
planted this heritage sapling at a prime location in the grounds of
Terryland Forest Park.
The
church of Saint Nicholas (aka Santa Claus) now has a direct connection
to the community-driven public park which serves as a key wildlife
sanctuary and 'carbon sink' in the heart of the city leading the way in
urban reforestation and in reversing biodiversity loss.
Hopefully
the tree of St. Nicholas will bring some much needed heavenly
protection to the Green Lungs of the city in the years ahead
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