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Longford communities urged to sign up for Get Ireland Growing initiative

Longford communities are being urged to sign up for Get Ireland Growing initiative. This year the Energia and GIY 'Get Ireland Growing' initiative aims to sow the seed of community food growing by giving away 300 community growing starter kits across...

26 Apr 2022 at 17:12

National News

Non-profit aims to raise €1m for food and mental health programme at Irish primary schools

...for a food education and mental health programme for primary schools across Ireland. Social enterprise Grow It Yourself (GIY)'s 'GROW At School' programme was previously piloted at 32 Irish schools to "overwhelmingly positive" feedback, and...

10 May 2023 at 11:08

National News

Bord Bia Bloom to promote sustainable living with over 100,000 visitors expected

...Living’ stage with five days of talks planned to cover everything from food waste and beekeeping to biodiversity and GIY. We look forward to warmly welcoming visitors in just a few weeks' time!” In addition to live cookery demonstrations from...

04 May 2023 at 10:20

National News

REVEALED: One third of Irish families are growing their food at home

...who do grow their own produce, 87% believe that homegrown food leads to less waste. A new report published by Supervalu and GIY (Grow it Yourself) also found that at school, 55% of children have practiced grown food in the classroom. Almost all (94%)...

18 Apr 2024 at 13:44

National News

Symptoms of one virus to watch, amid spike of people in Ireland getting very sick

NOROVIRUS, one of the most common causes of gastroenteritis, is one to look out for this winter as it is currently increasing in Ireland. In November, HPSC data showed norovirus diagnoses in Ireland tripled to more than 30 per week. There has also ...

12 Dec 2023 at 15:38

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Free growing kits for classes in Longford with The Big Grow

GIY and innocent aim to get Longford children growing their own food in classrooms this spring with The Big Grow. Primary school teachers nationwide can now sign up for a free food growing kit for their pupils at www.innocentdrinks.ie/big-grow which...

05 Feb 2022 at 18:01

Local News

Longford public urged to row in behind Grow It Yourself campaign

Grow it yourself (www.GIY.ie) have supplied the libraries across Ireland with free seed packs to distribute to all those who register to participate in the Grow it Forward programme. Each food growing pack includes seeds for beetroot, carrots, salad...

17 Apr 2021 at 10:00

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Longford library offering free seeds as part of Grow It Foward campaign

...at home as part of a new drive aimed at encouraging healthy eating. The Grow it Forward campaign by Grow It Yourself (GIY), in partnership with Healthy Ireland and Libraries Ireland, are giving free food-growing kits to budding green-fingered...

27 Mar 2021 at 15:00

Features

Applications for Community Seed Libraries wanted from Longford

Energia and GIY have been getting Ireland growing with the distribution of 1,000 free GROWBoxes to homes nationwide during lockdown. Now they have announced the next round of prizes in the Get Ireland Growing initiative, with €10,000 worth of food...

04 Jul 2020 at 13:38

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Energia to give away 1,000 home GROWBoxes worth €45,000 to help Get Longford Growing

...fingers to the test and try to grow some of your own food. Energia has partnered with not-for-profit social enterprise GIY, to give away 1,000 large GROWBoxes to people across the nation to Get Ireland Growing and help power a more sustainable...

01 Jun 2020 at 16:00

National News

The Big Grow 2021: Registration for free food growing kits now open to Longford primary school teachers

Schools may be closed, but innocent and GIY are calling on teachers to sign up for free food growing classroom kits to welcome them back when the doors are open again. Today kicks off the tenth year of The Big Grow, a campaign started by innocent...

26 Jan 2021 at 16:18

Business

People of Longford encouraged to apply for €75k funding pool to 'Get Ireland Growing'

...to apply for grants, which will enable them to start or further develop a community food-growing project in their area. GIY and Energia are calling on people across to the country to get growing their own food in 2019 and are offering all budding...

06 Jan 2019 at 17:00

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