Create a work of art on a plate and share it with us using the #EatTheStreets!
Create!
Kitchen Creations
Have a favourite recipe that features two or more of the veg on the Grow! page? Share it with us! We also like a good story, so tell us about the recipe. Is it a family recipe? Who created it?
Plate Art
We eat with our eyes, as well as our nose and mouth. Yes, we are asking you to play with your food and show us your plate art! Use the #eatthestreets and remember to eat your plate art after you capture it!
Activities!
Plate Art
Dublin Food History Walking Tour
Enjoy a walk along Dublin’s ever changing inner-city food streets. Finding delicious treats for a picnic in Mount Joy Square.
17th Century Food Walk
Feed your curiosity! We invite you to discover Dublin’s glorious food history in this in-depth walk around Dublin. You can even try your hand at some 17th Century cuisine!
Food Cycles
Why not visit the Dublin City Council food markets by bike? We have a mapped a family friendly route for you! Download the map to travel from the Market in St Anne’s Park with stops in Herbert Park, and Merrion Square and finish at the Bushy Park Market.
Framing Nature Up-Close
The art and science of creative investigation into your local environment! Be an explorer and discover what lives around you in nature!
Leaf Rubbing
Create art and discover more about the plants that grow in your city!
Grow Map Your Street
Be an urban cartographer and get to know what is growing locally through map making!
Visit our Growers and our Chefs
Why not spend a morning, afternoon or evening with our growers and chefs! Find them on our map!
How to Make a Rainwater Planter
Ready to grow with rain in your garden? We’ve got a handy how to guide to help you build a rainwater planter!
Make a Grow Dome
Feeling adventurous? Ready to start a summer project? Why not build your own grow dome!
Check out The Grow Dome article on the Magic of Geodesic Domes to start!
Rainy Day Food Tales
We have pulled together a list of podcasts for you to listen to on a rainy day or a sunny day sitting in the park!
- Sow Wild & Eat the Streets — by Bí Urban
- The Comfort Feed — by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
- The Food Chain — by BBC World Service
- The History of Food — by Holden Wilson
- Grow Your Own Food — by Shanna Smith, Garden Writer
- Ag Future: Innovation in Agri-Food — by Alltech
- Food for Europe — by the European Commission
- Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg — by Food Tank
- Food Systems — by FFA
- All The Dirt Gardening Sustainability Food — by Stephen Wood
- The Sustainable Food Trust Podcast — by Patrick Holden
Good Reads for Good Eats
Sometimes it is nice to curl up with a good book, here are our recommendations:
- Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives — by Carolyn Steel
- Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World — by Carolyn Steel
- Street Farm — by Michael Ableman
- Fields of Plenty — by Michael Ableman
- Ireland’s Green Larder — by Margaret Hickey
- A Book of Cookery: for Dressing of Several Dishes of Meat and Making Several Sauces and Seasoning for Meat for fowl by Hannah Alexander — Edited by Deirdre Nuttall
- One Pot, Pan, Planet. A greener way to cook for you, your family and the planet. — by Anna Jones
- The Irish Cookbook — by JP McMahon
- Irish Seaweed Kitchen — by Prannie Rhatigan
- Wild and Free Cooking from Nature: 100 Recipes and Folklore of Ireland’s Wild Harvest — by Cyril & Kit Ó Céirín
- Wild Food — by Roger Philips
- Zero Waste Home — by Bea Johnson
Have a Good Read for Good Eats? Share them with us!