Community Talking: 2009

Welcome

Welcome to Community Talking.

This blog was created after a group of local people living in South Dublin attended a Café style forum in Tallaght Priory.

Sixteen people attended the first of the series of four meetings on 14th March. The meetings were designed to give people an opportunity to come together and tap into their collective knowledge and wisdom.

They were asked to dream the kind of community they would like to live in.

The group came up with many ideas including the following five suggestions:

1. Talk and communicate more with each other.

2. Create a virtual online community linked to the real life of the community. A community blog was suggested. This is it!

3. Create a place in which elders in the community could pass on skills and knowledge to young people

4. Create a register of local skills and knowledge.

5. Create a ‘space’ for people to meet and chat in local areas. The dynamics and facilitation for coming together will be more important than the physical space and the possiblity of replication of this 'space' in various venues in communities in the area.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Final product

Antoinette's garden after Community Cafe makeover. This is what raised beds look like. They make growing your own food a delight!

Monday, May 18, 2009

Antoinette's garden 16th May 09

Hi all,
Between showers we managed to dig Antoinette's garden. Anyone can dig. Ita came prepared with painted toenails to prove it!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Happy Easter

Let the growing season begin.

Here's some basil, tomato, oregano and a variety of lettuce growing in my porch. I hope to make some tasty Italian dishes this year!

I've posted some useful links below.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Community Gardens

The need to raise awareness of how unsustainable our present way of life is was much discussed at last Saturdays café. We watched the "Story of Stuff" and part of the new Cultivate television series called "The Power Down Show".

Sean gave an input on growing your own stuff.

Again there were lots of positive ideas including six people volunteering to work on one members garden, the possiblity of setting up other gardens and also the idea of guerilla gardening!!! See link below.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

The ideas from first Community Cafe

The meeting on Saturday the 14th produced many positive ideas on how to create more sustainable, inclusive and caring communities.

We would like to invite you to comment on your ideas on how to do this.

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