@ Diarmuid, my grandfather who was a Dublin city man grew a lot of his own food. I am a Dublin man and we have an allotment like 1000s of other Dublin people do. We grow 40/50% of our own food.
I will be taking on a bigger allotment this year in the hope of growing 80/100% of our own food.

We have 10s of 1000s of acres of excellent land all over Ireland which grows nothing more than grass at the moment.

Ireland could easily produce enough food to feed 40 million people, that’s a fact.

I think more country people with land should begin to grow food again, most stopped doing this a generation or two ago.

Go green, go Ireland!

There’s already a programme in Irish schools, “Incredible Edibles” which teaches primary school children how to grow fruits & vegetables. Schools voluntarily sign up, though. It’s not part of the Curriculum.

Was taught to fish, tie my own fly fishing flies, hunt and track animals (eat what I shoot), and all about nature and how stuff grows from an early age.makes you appreciate everything you catch to eat etc great idea to bring into schools.

Can’t believe there are more no votes. Yay, let’s subject every child to an office job with no appreciation for the foundation that society depends on, or for the no 1 way in which we can positively interact with nature. Money is imaginary wealth, our real wealth is the topsoil.
“Many gardeners view their hobby as the perfect antidote to the modern world, a way of reclaiming some of the intangible things we’ve lost in our busy, dirt-free lives.”
I think it’s a great idea.

Great idea!!! People from the country are generally aware of where food comes from! But people from inner city Dublin need to learn that food can be grown by anybody and everybody and that it doesn’t grow in shops and and comes in plastic!

Its the sad reality that people don’t appreciate where their food comes from and that its safe!

Great idea. Useful basic information, feeds into many other subjects and is the type of knowledge that will stand to the students throughout their lives. How can people make good choices about what thy eat I they don’t understand where what they’re eating came from?

Jim Rogers billionaire Investor as recent as a few weeks ago said “The smart money is in Agriculture .I myself am buying large sections of farmland across the United States because the price of food will be considerably higher in 2 years and will rise considerably for the next 30 .So if you have money invest in being a Farmer and if you dont make friends with one quick” so agricultural education could be this countrys salvation yet so i think this would be a very good initiative by the government for what ever reason but it cant be a bad thing.

Lots of schools do this already outside of the curriculum and it gives the children a great sense of achievement but if it were to be brought into the curriculum, I don’t know how easy it would be for some schools to take part

Kc’s do a mean Philly cheese steak.

Amazing! Nothing new under the sun, in my day (1970’s) we had this in school, it was called GCSE Rural Science. The lessons had a profound effect as now I grow at least 50% of my own food!

Yes it should be,religion and Irish should be optional,more focus on useless life experiences like e.g driving a car,setting up bank accounts,wiring a plug,etc

A school garden not only teaches children how to grow food and other plants and an appreciation for the environment, but it has many more benefits:
- It is a resource to teach all other subjects in the curriculum, including maths and literacy (over which our government is in such a flutter at the moment)
- It is theraputic as it promotes physical activity and also increases mental wellbeing
- It encourages healthy eating and tasting of new foods
- It benefits children with special needs
- It integrates children from disadvantaged backgrounds and minority groups
- It teaches basic life skills (gardening, cooking, wood work, etc)
- It reconnects children and adults with nature
How can we consider NOT to include gardening into the Irish Curriculum?

It seems like every time there’s an initiative or a new piece of legislation in Britain The Journal throws up a poll asking if we should do the same here. How about a poll on whether we should slavishly copy everything that happens in Britain or legislate to our own needs?

I suppose growing a head of cabbage is more important than road safety

From the outset, it was a clear attempt by the Northern Ireland assembly (aided by Westminster ) to discredit Irish meat. I’d argue for the dissolution of the assembly and a return to direct rule , it’s gone too far and they can’t be trusted up there.

I was walking out with a friend of mine in a field a few week,s ago and we came across a couple of milk bottle,s Look he said a cow,s