Waterford Festival of Food in conjunction with Waterford County Council, GIY, Glanbia and Primary Schools in County Waterford

This is a two part Environmental Project:

a) Construct a GIY container from recycled / reused materials and must be mobile by first week in March.
b) Plant up the containers with a view to presenting pot and plants at a review ceremony on Thursday April 12th in Walton Park.

Entry form' and 'guidelines' were  posted/emailed to primary schools during week beginning December 5th and completed entry form were to be returned by Wednesday December 21st. All schools were contacted again in January to offer a 'getting started' advise session with GIY volunteers for teachers & students in Glanbia's Country Life shop, on Saturady January 14th at 11:00am.  

Session 1 14th January- 10 Schools attended this session which was a great start see picture below

 Session 2 was on Saturday 28th January  in Glanbia Dngarvan which was well attended by Teachers, Parents and Children from various primary schools.

Jodi Smith Horticulturalist with Glanbia gave advise on the soil type for your container  Using an old  wheel barrow, Jodi placed broken pots in the bottom of wheelbarrow fo drainage and suggested can also use polystyrine . He then placed some multi purpose compost followed by a little topsoil and lastly placed some perlite on the top. This was all mixed together and  will be a good soil for your mobile garden. Information and ideas for mobile containers was circulated to all present and again the emphasis was on creativity and to ensure that your garden is indeed mobile and also relate to your instructions. Information on suitable herbs /plants was issued by GIY Jill O'Connoravailable regarding container and suitable herbs/vegetables etc.

If your school would like to participate you can still get involved. For further information press on the link  GIY (pdf, 159 kbs)  and complete this application GIY Entry Form (PDF, 123 kbs)

For further information contact Anne Sullivan 05822116/086 8516227 or email asullivanwaterfordcoco.ie