August 2025
- Aug 23, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 27, 2025
From Waste Ground to a thriving Community Food Forest.
Over the past 6 months, a once overlooked patch of land in Fr Angelus Park, Westport (15m x 5m) has been completely transformed - thanks to a very successful collaboration between Food Forests Ireland - FFI (formerly The Edible Landscape Project CLG), Westport Tidy Towns, local residents and Trinity College Dublin's School of Education - through the European Union's Levers Project,
The result of this collaboration is a thriving community food forest, with everything from fruiting plants supporting native biodiversity, and even a covered pergola, where people can sit, chat and enjoy the space together.
Recently we hosted two fantastic workshops on site:
Organic Gardening with Aine Bell
Biodiversity in the food forest with Pat Fahy
...with several more workshops to follow.
It's all about learning by doing, and the reponse from the local community has been phenomenal.
The success of the project means that plans are now afoot to create an infrastructure enabled edible landscape of community food forests, stretching from Fr Angelus Park in Westport to other towns along the Great Western Greenway, and then nationally.
Building community food system resilience, one food forest at a time.
A small project with a big vision!
