About Us

Our Mission

To operate a sustainable community allotment garden through memberships and community events and education. Provide a community resource on sustainability, gardening, healthy eating, and biodiversity.

Our Approach

Our members all feel the Garden is a precious gift to the community and the environment — we want to make sure it is well utilised as a place to live more sustainable lives, share wisdom and food, and make connections between people and nature.

We favour a co-op, club-type model, where members pay an annual fee to support our activities and costs. Members can vote at meetings, be elected to the committee, and also get first dibs on renewing for the following year. Paying members get seasonal use of a designated raised bed for their own growing. Free memberships support our Community Beds Growing Project where volunteers garden together to grow produce that is delivered to Five Loaves Day Centre in Bray. A system like this is needed to keep it going for years to come and to build the type of community governance that the garden was intended to support. We have been operating in this way since 2019/2020.