Natural Wild Gardens

Natural Wild Gardens I help people to create their own ecological gardens, growing food alongside interconnected habitats.

These habitats provide both a home and food for us humans, wild animals and plants. I am Niamh Ní Dhúill and I am based a few miles outside of Tralee, at the beginning of the Sliabh Mish Mountains. I have an acre here where I grow food and create wild habitats. I am a Nature and Biodiversity Educator
There are three main elements to my work
- Habitat Restoration
- Growing Food
- Nature Connection

I do this by working with people to plan, develop and grow their own natural, ecological and wild gardens. Ecological gardening is all about creating interconnected habitats. My main work is in education and takes place mostly outdoors. I focus on:
- Establishing and growing cultivated food and herb remedy gardens
- Establishing and growing wild food in natural habitats
- Creating interconnected habitats such as small woodlands, native hedgerows, wildlife ponds, different wildflower lawns and meadows, compost heaps, log piles….. I work with Schools, Community Groups, Tidy Towns, Parishes, Organisations, Councils, Statutory Bodies, Local Businesses and Private Clients. I also develop educational resources, materials and programmes for clients. Recommended websites:

http://www.irishwildflowers.ie/pages/100a.html

Recommended books:

Hedgerow Medicine - harvest and make your own herbal remedies
by Julie Bruton-Seal & Mathew Seal
(available @ Irish Seed Savers Association - www.irishseedsavers.ie)

06/01/2026

For the first time, people in Kerry can get involved in a biodiversity project which is named after a traditional farming term.

06/01/2026
04/01/2026

🔈New publication alert
is the subject of a new, richly illustrated booklet published by The Heritage Council.

Before people in Ireland started writing in manuscripts made of vellum they wrote on other materials, primarily stone, in a writing system called ogham. Our earliest ogham inscriptions on stone are dated on linguistic grounds to between the 4th and the 7th century AD. Over 400 known examples of ogham stones and fragments of various shapes and sizes have survived, each with their own unique biography or story. The publication explores the writing form; where it can be found; and how we can to future generations.

The Text for the publication was written by Dr Nora White one of our Heritage in Schools Specialists, and features features high-quality colour illustrations from Shadows and Stone - Photography by Ken Williams , the National Monuments Service, the National Museum of Ireland, the Discovery Programme and Dr Nora White.

Read/Download it now at
https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/files/Ogham-Stones.pdf

02/01/2026
01/01/2026
29/12/2025

The Christmas Furze

Have any of you noticed the furze are back in bloom? I noticed it over the past week and they always come into bloom on the ditches near me for Christmas. It’ll dip down again the new year and come to life again for the 1st of May and that is why they were often used them as May Bushes here.

The colour lifts your heart on dark Winters days but sadly they are often cut and chopped and we never see them in their full glory. A few years ago a woman from Wexford told me they didn’t have Christmas trees growing up (like most rural Irish people pre-1960s) and she said they’d bring in a piece of furze and decorate it. I thought that was lovely as it’s all about bringing life and light into our lives in middle of Winter.

Especially noticeable on the past few bright days we’ve been having.

Text: Michael Fortune

29/12/2025

If your work has national or regional significance, this fund is here to help you grow stronger and make a lasting impact.

29/12/2025

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Gortbrack, Ballyseedy
Tralee
V92YC52

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