What I Offer
I offer a range of services. My focus is on creating spaces for wild nature and food everywhere. This can be a private garden, school grounds, community spaces or business grounds. I like to use Gaeilge in my work and can deliver sessions through both irish and English. I like to work one to one and with small groups.
- Practical Workshops & Sharing Skills
- Practical Habitat Creation and Maintenance Skills
- Hands On Growing Food and Plants Skills
- Nature & Biodiversity Walks and Talks in Your Own Garden or Community
- Garden Tour with Examples of Ongoing Practical Projects
- Get to know your Soil
- Home & Garden Composting Systems
- Identifying & Using Your Local Resources
- Native, Wild & Useful Plants – Practical skills to Learn how to Propagate and Transplant to Your Own Garden
- Advice on How to Develop and Interact with Your Evolving Garden Habitats
- Outdoor Conversations and Talks & Walks
- Meeting Spaces – Outdoors and Protected from Weather
- Polytunnel as an Outdoor Classroom Space
- A Small Range of Native, Wild & Useful Plants for Sale
- Connecting with Nature Activities
- Advice and Development of Resources and Educational Programmes
- Online consultations option available when appropriate or necessary
My Ethos
My work is based around the principles of Organic Gardening, Permaculture and Biodynamics
- Biodiversity Gardening Skills
- Creating Natural Habitats
- Growing Food Skills
- Organic & Ecological Gardening Skills
- Propagation of Native Wild Plants
- Growing and Foraging Wild Plants Sustainably in Your Own Garden
- Seed Saving & Becoming a Seed Guardian
- Soil & Composting
- Harvesting Rainwater
- How to establish a Small Scale Food Forest
- How to Establish a Small Scale Native Tree Nursery
- Ecosystem and Habitat Restoration
- Nature Based Solutions
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- Nature Connection Activities
- Improve Your Wellbeing in Nature
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- Training Trainers and Educators
- Upskilling Programmes for Landscapers Making the Transition to Chemical Free Gardening
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- Training in Citizen Science Monitoring, Recording & Reporting to the National Biodiversity Data Centre
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- Visit to Assess Garden or Land
- Get to know Your Existing Soil, Plants & Habitats
- Advice on Actions to Take
- Biodiversity Garden Planning & Design
- Drawn Plan if Required
- Project Priority & Timeline
- Intentional Rewilding Approach to Gardens and Land
- Growing Food and Food Forests – using a Permaculture Approach
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- Ecological and Habitat Protection, Restoration and Care
Habitat Audit and Assessment
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Submitting Records to the National Biodiversity Data Centre
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Simple home garden plans:
- Kitchen Food Garden
- Home Remedy Garden
- Rewilding your Garden
- Using your Garden Resources
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- Advice on Timelines for Projects
- Guidance with Costing for Garden Projects
- One to one Support & Guidance with Establishing Your Garden
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- Provision of Information about Resources and Suppliers
- Advice on Appropriate Home & Garden Composting Systems
- Advice on Appropriate Water Harvesting System
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Growing Plants | Harvesting Plants | Drying | Processing | Storing | Sharing Plants and Seeds
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Making Simple Home Remedies | Herbal Teas | Healing Herb Baths | Herb Oils | Herb Vinegars | Ointments | Tinctures | Simple First Aid using Plants | Using Flower Essences
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Visit to My Garden to See Habitats In Situ | To Understand How They Will Develop Over The Years (By appointment only)
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Visit to My Garden to See Native, Wild, Edible and Useful Plants In Situ and How They Will Grow Over Time (By appointment only)
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Practical Skillshare and Advice on How to Propagate, Divide and Transplant Native Plants Back Into Your Own Garden
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- Development of Information Material, Public Signage, Educational Information Sheets, Publications, Booklets, etc.
- Site Visits – Guidance on the Assessment of Current Habitats & Biodiversity
- Advice and Recommendations on Caring for Existing Habitats & Biodiversity
- Biodiversity Project Plans with Actions, Timelines and Recommendations
- Guidance on Monitoring, Recording and Reporting about Habitats and Biodiversity
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Support to Groups Making:
– Funding Applications and Report Writing
– Public Submissions
– Inputting into both Local and National Policy
Support with Participation in Biodiversity & Climate Action and Conversations
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- Links to Local & National Biodiversity, Food, Environmental and NGO Networks
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- Guidance with Creating Public Events and Celebrations, such as Small Nature Festivals & Sustainable Social Gatherings
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Education & Training
Ecosystem and Habitat Restoration
Organic Gardening Skills Biodiversity Gardening
Training Trainers
Garden & Land Consultation
Biodiversity Mapping, Planning & Design
Natural Kitchen Gardens
Home Remedy Garden
Rewilding your Garden
Project & Resource
Development
Assessment of current Biodiversity
Advice and recommendations on caring for Biodiversity