This (not exhaustive) list shows a sample of the gardens and projects with which Localgrowplanet and SeasonsPace are in contact or others where we have no personal contact as yet, but are also innovative in some way. Depending on where you reading this from, Ireland may be “international” for you, so some Irish resources are included here too.

Gardens that welcome schools

• West End Women and Girls (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)

• Saint Brigid’s Community (and school) Garden (Stillorgan, Co. Dublin (IRL)

• Gardens to Bellies (Copenhagen, DK)

Community gardens and associations

• Dublin Community Growers (Dublin, Ireland)

• Community Gardens Ireland (Nationwide, Ireland)

• Social Farms and Gardens UK (including Northern Ireland)

• The Comfrey project (Gateshead, UK)

• West End Women and Girls (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)

Local food networks including Community Supported Agriculture Schemes

• • Open Food Network for buyers and sellers (IRL)  

  • Derrybeg Farm, intergrating community and agriculture in Celbridge, County Kildare (IRL)

  • Open Food Newtork for buyers and sellers (UK)

  • Permaculture association page on local food networks (UK) 

• • La Ruche qui dit Oui network of local producers supplying local residents (France), and the same organisation in English: The Food Assembly 

  • Community Supported Agriculture in France (AMAP and ASC), overview by URGENCI (FR)

  • URGENCI (Urban-Rural network Generating new forms of exchange between Citizens Internationally: grassroots network of regional and local solidarity-based partnerships for agroecology (LSPAs),including CSA initiatives  (INTERNATIONAL)

• • Fermierdefamille.org (Québec network of CSAs/AMAP et ASC, CANADA)

Novel gardens (Vertical, Rooftop, Anything goes)

• • Enormous rooftop garden at Porte de Versailles, Paris (NU-Paris, FR)

  • Vertical gardening tips for growing veg in small spaces at Gardeningknowhow.com (Online)

  • The Grow Dome Project (Dublin, IRL)

  • Québec experiment with plants cleaning the soil (Michel Labrecque, Esther Lapierre-Archambault, Université de Montréal, CA) and also here

  • Québec campus gardens (e.g. McGill Campus Crops 2021 and Université de Montréal green rooves, CA)

Biodiversity, Bees and Beekeeping

• The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan (Nationwide, IRL)

• Wildacres Nature Reserve (Wicklow, IRL)

• Buzz project, Newcastle Young Lads and Dads (NEYDL), UK

Local flower farming

• • Cutting edge flowers without the airmiles. Irish Times, 29 April 2017
  • FlowerfarmersofIreland.ie (Online information hub)

Grow it yourself Information hubs

• GIY Ireland (project in Ireland and the UK)