Food Security through Seed Saving and Exchange
With Social Farms and Gardens NI
Amach Anseo continues to be involved in this programme, meeting regularly online with the 30+ participants from across Ulster and activity contributing to the WhatsApp group. Amach Anseo have successfully grown Urbikany Tomatoes and Roveja Peas to save and distribute their seeds.
Gone Fishing
May – July 2021
Amach Anseo have been participating in Greencastle Community Centers project Gone Fishing where we have been learning how to make a ink well lobster pot from willow. Big Green Art aka Brendan Farren has guided us through each step and we are proud to be exhibiting our pots at Greencastle Maritime Museum on Thursday 22nd July.
Home Ed Art Club at Amach Anseo
Since Thursday 23rd September and continuing every week a group of Home Educators, parents and children visited the community garden at Amach Anseo to take part in arts/crafts and horticultural activities. The children range in ages from newborn to 15 and a variety of activities have been offered, including scavenger hunts, rock painting, seed saving and a long term project where we are building a friendship seat from Ecobricks, recycled plastic drinks bottles stuffed with waste soft plastics which can can be join together to build with.
Donegal Women’s Network
(at The Potting Shed) 19th June
Last September Danielle Bonner of Changemakers and Donegal Women’s Network first visited The Potting Shed as part of Artlink’s Culture Night programme. She promised then she would be back. We were delighted to provide a space for her and Eco therapist Michaela McDaid to facilitate a day long workshop that included a mindful wander, meditation, lunch and a dip in the sea at Crummies Bay.
- September 23, 2021
