Mullaghmatt Cortolvin JTT

Great work is being done with children of all ages in Teach na nDaoine Family Resource Centre. Clean ups, landscaping, recycling, art, sculputre, eco-camps - you name it they're doing it!
A big thank you to everyone in Teach na nDaoine. 

6 Week Community Garden Programme at Teach na nDaoine

When:        Wednesdays March – April 6pm-7pm
Where:       Community Garden & Portacabin
Who:          Youth Café Wed group 7-11 yr olds

Involves:
·        Sowing seeds – Propagation using recycled materials
·        Organic/Environmentally friendly planting
·        Seed foraging – How to grow, methods of growing
·        Composting
·        Homemade wormery’s
·        Transplanting plants/growing on
Week 1.      Planting seeds in trays using recycled trays for propagation in homemade propagator
Week 2.      Making Homemade plant pots using newspaper and recycled materials
Week 3.      Searching for and collecting seeds from our local environment, introduction to cuttings
Week 4.      Introduction to composting, what to use, important factors, homemade bins
Week 5.      How to make a wormery at home, looking after it, how it works.
Week 6.      Transplant seedlings planted in week one. How to grow from pinning down/staking plants

Thank you to Packie and Michael for liaison on JTT activities