The Three Sisters Community Garden
@3sistersgarden.bsky.social
A small community garden built on waste ground in inner city Belfast. We've been growing vegetables and herbs to share with local residents and providing a space to build connection and friendships.
It's in the shelter of each other we live 🌱
It's in the shelter of each other we live 🌱
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We haven't had a fundraiser for a few years as there's many causes in need of support, but we're hoping to achieve what we need in the Autumn. Any help is appreciated, muckers 🙏💗
gofund.me/dab5c5b8
gofund.me/dab5c5b8
Our garden is named after this growing method for a reason. Three different crops, sharing space and supporting eachothers growth, works.
Gardeners are the "fourth sister." Sowing seeds and doing a wee bit of minding. Take time to read the chapter 🌱😉
earthlingopinion.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/f...
Gardeners are the "fourth sister." Sowing seeds and doing a wee bit of minding. Take time to read the chapter 🌱😉
earthlingopinion.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/f...
September 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our garden is named after this growing method for a reason. Three different crops, sharing space and supporting eachothers growth, works.
Gardeners are the "fourth sister." Sowing seeds and doing a wee bit of minding. Take time to read the chapter 🌱😉
earthlingopinion.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/f...
Gardeners are the "fourth sister." Sowing seeds and doing a wee bit of minding. Take time to read the chapter 🌱😉
earthlingopinion.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/f...
We're doing all we can to push for urban growing projects to be regarded as essential infrastructure.
There are no losers in this and we have everything to gain.
There are no losers in this and we have everything to gain.
The revolution will not be televised.
It'll be built on waste ground.
belfastmedia.com/community-ga...
It'll be built on waste ground.
belfastmedia.com/community-ga...
Community gardens set to grow and grow, Minister hears during Falls visit
INFRASTRUCTURE Minister Liz Kimmins was on the Falls Road this week to learn more about community gardens that are springing up across the city.
belfastmedia.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We're doing all we can to push for urban growing projects to be regarded as essential infrastructure.
There are no losers in this and we have everything to gain.
There are no losers in this and we have everything to gain.
It's still August but my house smells like Samhain/Hallowe'en.
Loads of sweet, juicy organic apples from The Plough Mens Shed in Grosvenor Road Community Garden, given out and we left with a big bag.
Peeled, added cinnamon (you can see a piece sticking out), cloves, vanilla extract, brown sugar and
Loads of sweet, juicy organic apples from The Plough Mens Shed in Grosvenor Road Community Garden, given out and we left with a big bag.
Peeled, added cinnamon (you can see a piece sticking out), cloves, vanilla extract, brown sugar and
August 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It's still August but my house smells like Samhain/Hallowe'en.
Loads of sweet, juicy organic apples from The Plough Mens Shed in Grosvenor Road Community Garden, given out and we left with a big bag.
Peeled, added cinnamon (you can see a piece sticking out), cloves, vanilla extract, brown sugar and
Loads of sweet, juicy organic apples from The Plough Mens Shed in Grosvenor Road Community Garden, given out and we left with a big bag.
Peeled, added cinnamon (you can see a piece sticking out), cloves, vanilla extract, brown sugar and
As food prices continue to climb, make sure you are working to strengthen your local food system and community gardens. It will take community level efforts to combat this.
Why the UK's food system isn't working and how we can fix it
State of the Nation's Food Industry Report 2024: Food Foundation's Project Officer Alice English looks at key findings
foodfoundation.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As food prices continue to climb, make sure you are working to strengthen your local food system and community gardens. It will take community level efforts to combat this.
Groups like ours come in all shapes and sizes, but our goal is the same. There are no losers in creating green spaces and developing a growing infrastructure in our streets. We just need our politicians to step up.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Revealed: Ireland’s Greenest Places 2025 long list
Nominee places range from the shadows of Croagh Patrick to a once derelict dump site in Dublin’s Liberties
www.irishtimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Groups like ours come in all shapes and sizes, but our goal is the same. There are no losers in creating green spaces and developing a growing infrastructure in our streets. We just need our politicians to step up.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
The need for now essential growing space is widespread, especially in urban communities.
"So much of Ireland’s food supply is imported, leaving the country vulnerable to food insecurity. The community growing movement came about because people started to get really worried about this.”
"So much of Ireland’s food supply is imported, leaving the country vulnerable to food insecurity. The community growing movement came about because people started to get really worried about this.”
There are hundreds of people in queues for allotments across Dublin city, council figures show. The current city development plan sets an aim of doubling allotments, but that is caveated with “if feasibly possible”. www.dublininquirer.c...
Hundreds in queue for allotments across Dublin city, show figures
The current development plan sets an aim of doubling allotments, caveated, with “if feasibly possible”.
www.dublininquirer.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The need for now essential growing space is widespread, especially in urban communities.
"So much of Ireland’s food supply is imported, leaving the country vulnerable to food insecurity. The community growing movement came about because people started to get really worried about this.”
"So much of Ireland’s food supply is imported, leaving the country vulnerable to food insecurity. The community growing movement came about because people started to get really worried about this.”
Carrots are still being harvested from a 1 meter x .5 meter bed. Organic, full of flavour and grown from seed. Found some of our tomato plants have started to fruit! They're called Costoluto Fiorentino and are a rich, meaty tomato, which makes great pasta sauce! Maybe we'll have 1/2
July 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Carrots are still being harvested from a 1 meter x .5 meter bed. Organic, full of flavour and grown from seed. Found some of our tomato plants have started to fruit! They're called Costoluto Fiorentino and are a rich, meaty tomato, which makes great pasta sauce! Maybe we'll have 1/2
A good harvest today, visitors calling in, beds tidied, tomatoes pruned, carrots thinned, and the last of the potatoes bagged up. If this weather stretches into the weekend, we might have to light the bbq on Saturday 😎😉 Fruit trees are loaded and our first try at growing sweetcorn? So far, so good!
July 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A good harvest today, visitors calling in, beds tidied, tomatoes pruned, carrots thinned, and the last of the potatoes bagged up. If this weather stretches into the weekend, we might have to light the bbq on Saturday 😎😉 Fruit trees are loaded and our first try at growing sweetcorn? So far, so good!
We're 25% there, so thank you! We're hoping 500 people can find it possible to throw us £2 which will get us closer to our target.
Building the greenhouse means we can help others get set up food growing spaces.
Thank you 🤝
www.gofundme.com/f/a-greenhou...
Building the greenhouse means we can help others get set up food growing spaces.
Thank you 🤝
www.gofundme.com/f/a-greenhou...
July 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We're 25% there, so thank you! We're hoping 500 people can find it possible to throw us £2 which will get us closer to our target.
Building the greenhouse means we can help others get set up food growing spaces.
Thank you 🤝
www.gofundme.com/f/a-greenhou...
Building the greenhouse means we can help others get set up food growing spaces.
Thank you 🤝
www.gofundme.com/f/a-greenhou...
Trying to build a community growing infrastructure across our streets isn't just about addressing physical and mental wellbeing.
We're addressing the very real warnings on the upcoming food shortages.
It's not "if".
Its "when".
Please apply pressure to your 1/2
eciu.net/insights/202...
We're addressing the very real warnings on the upcoming food shortages.
It's not "if".
Its "when".
Please apply pressure to your 1/2
eciu.net/insights/202...
Storms, floods, droughts and an unstable food supply
Informed debate on energy and climate change.
eciu.net
June 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Trying to build a community growing infrastructure across our streets isn't just about addressing physical and mental wellbeing.
We're addressing the very real warnings on the upcoming food shortages.
It's not "if".
Its "when".
Please apply pressure to your 1/2
eciu.net/insights/202...
We're addressing the very real warnings on the upcoming food shortages.
It's not "if".
Its "when".
Please apply pressure to your 1/2
eciu.net/insights/202...
Just discovered there's a type of tomato called "Rebel Starfighter" and we can guarantee we'll be growing it next year 😎
#RebellionIsBuiltOnHope #AnArmyMarchesOnItsStomach
#RebellionIsBuiltOnHope #AnArmyMarchesOnItsStomach
June 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Just discovered there's a type of tomato called "Rebel Starfighter" and we can guarantee we'll be growing it next year 😎
#RebellionIsBuiltOnHope #AnArmyMarchesOnItsStomach
#RebellionIsBuiltOnHope #AnArmyMarchesOnItsStomach
We haven't had a fundraiser for a few years as there's many causes in need of support, but we're hoping to achieve what we need in the Autumn. Any help is appreciated, muckers 🙏💗
gofund.me/dab5c5b8
gofund.me/dab5c5b8
June 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We haven't had a fundraiser for a few years as there's many causes in need of support, but we're hoping to achieve what we need in the Autumn. Any help is appreciated, muckers 🙏💗
gofund.me/dab5c5b8
gofund.me/dab5c5b8
Last week at the Brink Festival, Belfast, there was a panel discussion on Activism and Environmentalism.
A woman asked Bernadette McAliskey how to get community more involved when coping with so much.
Bernadette's reply will never leave me.
"You dig where you stand."
There's the answer 🌱😉
A woman asked Bernadette McAliskey how to get community more involved when coping with so much.
Bernadette's reply will never leave me.
"You dig where you stand."
There's the answer 🌱😉
June 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Last week at the Brink Festival, Belfast, there was a panel discussion on Activism and Environmentalism.
A woman asked Bernadette McAliskey how to get community more involved when coping with so much.
Bernadette's reply will never leave me.
"You dig where you stand."
There's the answer 🌱😉
A woman asked Bernadette McAliskey how to get community more involved when coping with so much.
Bernadette's reply will never leave me.
"You dig where you stand."
There's the answer 🌱😉
These are called Costoluto Fiorentino, and we've grown them from seeds, bought from organic seed suppliers "Brown Envelope Seeds" near Cork. Every seed planted germinated, as did their corn and salad seeds. We'll be buying from them again.
This type of beefsteak tomato is rich and 1/
This type of beefsteak tomato is rich and 1/
June 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
These are called Costoluto Fiorentino, and we've grown them from seeds, bought from organic seed suppliers "Brown Envelope Seeds" near Cork. Every seed planted germinated, as did their corn and salad seeds. We'll be buying from them again.
This type of beefsteak tomato is rich and 1/
This type of beefsteak tomato is rich and 1/
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‘There is simply no pill that can replace human connection’.
Well done to @3sistersgarden.bsky.social on their community day on Sunday as part of Belfast Community Garden Open Week and #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, delighted to bring our Travelling Apothecary along.
Well done to @3sistersgarden.bsky.social on their community day on Sunday as part of Belfast Community Garden Open Week and #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, delighted to bring our Travelling Apothecary along.
May 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
‘There is simply no pill that can replace human connection’.
Well done to @3sistersgarden.bsky.social on their community day on Sunday as part of Belfast Community Garden Open Week and #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, delighted to bring our Travelling Apothecary along.
Well done to @3sistersgarden.bsky.social on their community day on Sunday as part of Belfast Community Garden Open Week and #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, delighted to bring our Travelling Apothecary along.
Sweetcorn seedlings planted into their bed today. Let's see how they do 🙏 More peas in, lots of thirsty potatoes and potted fruit trees watered with more herbs planted.
A glass of wine and putting the world to rights under our new lights ✨️ 🥂💫 💓
A glass of wine and putting the world to rights under our new lights ✨️ 🥂💫 💓
May 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Sweetcorn seedlings planted into their bed today. Let's see how they do 🙏 More peas in, lots of thirsty potatoes and potted fruit trees watered with more herbs planted.
A glass of wine and putting the world to rights under our new lights ✨️ 🥂💫 💓
A glass of wine and putting the world to rights under our new lights ✨️ 🥂💫 💓
What's "funny" is many people think gardeners, people who care about the environment and our community, are happy clappy, kumbafuckinya singing hippys.
We build, grow food and help organise, to destroy the fucking system,
An army marches on its stomach.
We've organic carrots and wine.
Winners 😎🖕
We build, grow food and help organise, to destroy the fucking system,
An army marches on its stomach.
We've organic carrots and wine.
Winners 😎🖕
May 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What's "funny" is many people think gardeners, people who care about the environment and our community, are happy clappy, kumbafuckinya singing hippys.
We build, grow food and help organise, to destroy the fucking system,
An army marches on its stomach.
We've organic carrots and wine.
Winners 😎🖕
We build, grow food and help organise, to destroy the fucking system,
An army marches on its stomach.
We've organic carrots and wine.
Winners 😎🖕
Reposted by The Three Sisters Community Garden
We're doing this in our community garden on the 18th of May. People talk about "grassroots." We're working on the soil. That's where everything grows 🌱
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
May 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We're doing this in our community garden on the 18th of May. People talk about "grassroots." We're working on the soil. That's where everything grows 🌱
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
We're doing this in our community garden on the 18th of May. People talk about "grassroots." We're working on the soil. That's where everything grows 🌱
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
May 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We're doing this in our community garden on the 18th of May. People talk about "grassroots." We're working on the soil. That's where everything grows 🌱
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
"You can cut all the flowers, but you can not stop the Spring from coming".
Craic and music whilst doing bbq salmon, baked in tarragon and lemon balm from the garden. Mediterranean food meets Iranian food.
Eat together, build together ❤️ 😎🥂🍷The inner city streets of Belfast can be a paradise.
Build it 🍷🤝🌱
Eat together, build together ❤️ 😎🥂🍷The inner city streets of Belfast can be a paradise.
Build it 🍷🤝🌱
April 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Craic and music whilst doing bbq salmon, baked in tarragon and lemon balm from the garden. Mediterranean food meets Iranian food.
Eat together, build together ❤️ 😎🥂🍷The inner city streets of Belfast can be a paradise.
Build it 🍷🤝🌱
Eat together, build together ❤️ 😎🥂🍷The inner city streets of Belfast can be a paradise.
Build it 🍷🤝🌱
Reposted by The Three Sisters Community Garden
They're starving them to death. Intentionally. Every dollar counts. Please donate to the fundraisers I'm reposting. truthout.org/articles/chi...
Children in Gaza Are So Hungry They’re Drawing Pictures of Food in the Sand
Israel has blocked all aid from entering Gaza for over three weeks, the longest total aid blockade so far.
truthout.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
They're starving them to death. Intentionally. Every dollar counts. Please donate to the fundraisers I'm reposting. truthout.org/articles/chi...
Today, we're receiving a large batch of these exotic flowers.
They're poisonous and have the ability to move around so we're asking local residents to keep their doors closed until we get the cage built.
Please secure small dogs as they've a taste for them.
Thank you for your help 🙏
They're poisonous and have the ability to move around so we're asking local residents to keep their doors closed until we get the cage built.
Please secure small dogs as they've a taste for them.
Thank you for your help 🙏
April 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Today, we're receiving a large batch of these exotic flowers.
They're poisonous and have the ability to move around so we're asking local residents to keep their doors closed until we get the cage built.
Please secure small dogs as they've a taste for them.
Thank you for your help 🙏
They're poisonous and have the ability to move around so we're asking local residents to keep their doors closed until we get the cage built.
Please secure small dogs as they've a taste for them.
Thank you for your help 🙏
Netting up, beetroot, garlic chives, lettuce and herbs planted. Still lots to do but blossoms are out and the craics 90! Wee Sean Michael and his friend, Noah, were passing and came in to help. They learned how strawberry flowers turn in to actual strawberries so they're 1/
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Netting up, beetroot, garlic chives, lettuce and herbs planted. Still lots to do but blossoms are out and the craics 90! Wee Sean Michael and his friend, Noah, were passing and came in to help. They learned how strawberry flowers turn in to actual strawberries so they're 1/
This is today from 2pm at Brink, the community garden beside the Sunflower Pub 🤝
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/activating...
Activating the right to food in Belfast
Join the Belfast Food Partnership to get your teeth into food, rights and justice
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is today from 2pm at Brink, the community garden beside the Sunflower Pub 🤝
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/activating...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/activating...
Theres little plots of land dotted around our streets. Grass verges, large patches of ground with dead soil, covered with waste, going to waste, stretches of concrete which could be replaced with raised beds.
Being an "eco-lutionary" is sexy 😎 You get 1/
www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...
Being an "eco-lutionary" is sexy 😎 You get 1/
www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...
A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a c...
www.ted.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Theres little plots of land dotted around our streets. Grass verges, large patches of ground with dead soil, covered with waste, going to waste, stretches of concrete which could be replaced with raised beds.
Being an "eco-lutionary" is sexy 😎 You get 1/
www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...
Being an "eco-lutionary" is sexy 😎 You get 1/
www.ted.com/talks/ron_fi...