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Who We Are
Recent winners of the 2025 National Climate Action Award, Food Forests Ireland (FFI) CLG is a not-for-profit, environmental educational organisation. Incorporated as a legal entity in 2018, FFI was registered as a charity in March 2023.
What We Do
Food Forests Ireland CLG plants food forests with School and Community groups as part of a series of bespoke, systems-designed environmental, educational programmes which help build national food system resilience at a local level. Collaboration with a wide-ranging group of local, national, and international partners is a key facet of FFI.
Education and Training
Education is at the heart of Food Forests Ireland CLG's work.
Our most recent programme is the Infrastructure Enabled Edible Landscape (IEEL). The pilot IEEL Community Food-Forest Programme began in Westport in collaboration with Westport Tidy Towns and Trinity College Dublin (TCD), was awarded the National Climate Action Award by the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment and is expanding to schools and villages along the Great Western Greenway (GWG) including Mulranny and InishTurk.
Further expansion of IEEL is underway in towns and communities along the Royal Canal Greenway, beginning at TUDublin (Blanchardstown).
Food Forests Ireland's Education Programmes include:
• Food-Forest Design Workshops
Latest Updates from FFI
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Why We Are Circular by Nature
Nature is circular. In healthy ecosystems, nutrients cycle, nothing is wasted, and life regenerates. Our food forests follow these principles — restoring soil health, producing food, supporting biodiversity, and creating local circular economies. We teach communities to work with nature, not against it.
Growing Together Across Ireland
Why Partner With Food Forests Ireland CLG?
• Join a national network of biodiversity and climate educators
• Get expert support in food forest design and implementation
• Align with national climate and biodiversity goals
• Share your impact as part of a growing national movement
Partners and Collaborators Include:
• Community Foundation Ireland (CFI)
• Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Westport Tidy Towns
• TUDublin (Blanchardstown)
• Munster Technological University (MTU)
Food Forests Ireland Partners & Funders
