Frozen’s Olaf hosts Ugly Veg
Picnic for School Gardening Kids
Frozen’s Olaf hosted a special ugly vegetable Picnic to
launch the Muintir na Tire School Garden Competition yesterday. Children from Canovee,
Rusheen and Rylane National Schools were invited to the picnic by Olaf in
Griffins Garden Centre Dripsey where they enjoyed all sorts of goodies. Even
Deputy Mayor Councillor Aindreas Moynihan dropped in to wish all the schools
taking part in this year’s copmpetion well. There were plenty of ugly veg were
on display and Olaf reminded us that
this is perfectly good food and should not be wasted. The competition is now in
its third year and continues to grow with many schools recognising the benefits
of having a school garden. Schools have all sorts of options when it comes to
choosing which type of Garden they can enter.
Garden Categories include Edible Garden,
Biodiversity/Wildlife Garden, Up-Cycling Art and colour Garden, Mixed
Garden, Small Garden, Best New Garden ,
Innovation and Creativity and the overall best
Pride of County Cork Garden
All schools all automatically
judged for this Award.
Mary Stack
Environmental Awareness Officer of Cork County council encouraged schools to rethink,
repair, refurbish along with reusing & recycling items in their garden
as this is very important for the environment. Conor Nelligan Heritage urged
schools to think Biodiversity when gardening. He particularly suggested the
inclusion of natural hedges, log piles, bird boxes, bird tables, wildflower
meadows, nature-trails and the use of native flora.
Sean Holland of Muintir na Tire who co-ordinate the
competition thanked Cork County Council and Griffins Garden Centre for all
their support in organising the Competition.
Olaf urged all schools to try and enter online at muintircork.com as this is kinder to the
environment and Deputy Mayor Moynihan said that information packs can also be
ordered online at the Muintir na Tire
Website.
For Full details of the competition
From Muintircork.com
Email admin@muintircork.com
Telephone 0214500688
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