Campaign
Climate Rights
Gairdíní an Phobail
Ná habair é, déan é (Don’t say it, do it!)
We are gardeners and grafters, youth workers and young people, foragers and foodies, builders and bakers - working together to transform the land we live on into healthy ecosystems. We work to reconnect marginalised communities with how the food they eat is grown, offering local, organic alternatives to highly processed food.
At Gairdín an Phobail, Take Back The City has teamed up with a coalition of individuals and organisations to support community led responses to climate change. We provide spaces for campaign groups to convene, support sustainable forms of engagement with local environments and build networks for collective adaptability in the face of a changing climate. By reconnecting marginalised communities with how our food is grown and bringing traditional knowledge and contemporary ideas together, we are providing local, organic alternatives to highly processed food and developing deeper connections with the places where we live.
- Invest in community-led growing initiatives
The state must make land available and adequately resource organisations who are embedded in and supporting communities to respond to the climate crisis, divest from harmful practices, sanction those who do and invest in sustainable agriculture, energy and industry.
- An Sliabh Dúbh (The Black Mountain and Belfast’s Hills)
For decades local communities have been at the forefront of the movement to stop the destructive exploitation of this biodiverse habitat. Already existing community based efforts, such as the Black Mountain Rewilding Project, should be supported to protect our hills as a nature reserve and a critical defense against climate change.
- Self-organised and networked Gairdíní an Phobail (People's Gardens)
We don’t need more green gimmicks. Communities are already reclaiming land, rewilding, growing food and sharing resources. These relationships and industries – which have a much deeper value than private profit - are the kernels for more humane and ecologically sustainable economies and communities in future and must be supported.
What we want
Gairdíní an Phobail in Numbers
13
Primary schools, secondary schools, youth organisations and businesses using the gardens for weekly activities.
50
Community gardeners taking part in weekly activities and distributing harvests.
1000
Native Trees planted in tree nurseries in support of The Black Mountain Rewilding project.
4000
Seed bombs (1 Million Seeds) thrown on derelict or disused urban sites in Belfast.
The need for food sovereignty!
Food parcels distributed by the Trussell Trust
Updates
Climate Rights