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 🌱
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...
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
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...
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/
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 😎🖕
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 🍷🤝🌱
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/
people ready to help and advise.
"If you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. Let your shovel be your weapon of choice". 🔥
"If you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. Let your shovel be your weapon of choice". 🔥
March 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
people ready to help and advise.
"If you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. Let your shovel be your weapon of choice". 🔥
"If you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta. Let your shovel be your weapon of choice". 🔥
This was an amazing event, part of the #ImagineBelfast Festival
People were really interested in The Three Sisters, wanting to see our work and learn about what we're trying to achieve, so plenty of new visitors in the coming months!
Theres no strangers here, only friends you have yet to make 😉
People were really interested in The Three Sisters, wanting to see our work and learn about what we're trying to achieve, so plenty of new visitors in the coming months!
Theres no strangers here, only friends you have yet to make 😉
March 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This was an amazing event, part of the #ImagineBelfast Festival
People were really interested in The Three Sisters, wanting to see our work and learn about what we're trying to achieve, so plenty of new visitors in the coming months!
Theres no strangers here, only friends you have yet to make 😉
People were really interested in The Three Sisters, wanting to see our work and learn about what we're trying to achieve, so plenty of new visitors in the coming months!
Theres no strangers here, only friends you have yet to make 😉
Women who grow veg possess shovels.
Just sayin' 😎
“Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival".
“Women grow because sometimes rage can only be mollified by digging until the sweat trickles down their backs. Women grow because it offers them control in a world determined to rid them of it”.
Just sayin' 😎
“Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival".
“Women grow because sometimes rage can only be mollified by digging until the sweat trickles down their backs. Women grow because it offers them control in a world determined to rid them of it”.
March 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Women who grow veg possess shovels.
Just sayin' 😎
“Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival".
“Women grow because sometimes rage can only be mollified by digging until the sweat trickles down their backs. Women grow because it offers them control in a world determined to rid them of it”.
Just sayin' 😎
“Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival".
“Women grow because sometimes rage can only be mollified by digging until the sweat trickles down their backs. Women grow because it offers them control in a world determined to rid them of it”.
A quiet pint of the black stuff in the Hawthorne Bar, a wee place where people are very, very real.
March 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A quiet pint of the black stuff in the Hawthorne Bar, a wee place where people are very, very real.
Colours, craic and real Iranian food served up on a great day of craic and new friends.
Build it and they will come 😉🌱🔥
Build it and they will come 😉🌱🔥
March 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Colours, craic and real Iranian food served up on a great day of craic and new friends.
Build it and they will come 😉🌱🔥
Build it and they will come 😉🌱🔥
benefit from.
Stephen left with strawberry plants and ears ringing from all our thanks!
Stephen left with strawberry plants and ears ringing from all our thanks!
March 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
benefit from.
Stephen left with strawberry plants and ears ringing from all our thanks!
Stephen left with strawberry plants and ears ringing from all our thanks!
As many of you know, we struggle for funds but the kindness of others has really helped us over the years.
We're planning on rebuilding the garden in the Autumn, using Permaculture Design, recycling materials, installing solar panels, always 1/
We're planning on rebuilding the garden in the Autumn, using Permaculture Design, recycling materials, installing solar panels, always 1/
March 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
As many of you know, we struggle for funds but the kindness of others has really helped us over the years.
We're planning on rebuilding the garden in the Autumn, using Permaculture Design, recycling materials, installing solar panels, always 1/
We're planning on rebuilding the garden in the Autumn, using Permaculture Design, recycling materials, installing solar panels, always 1/
If anyone's free tomorrow for a wee hand in the Three Sisters, you'll be fed and watered 😉
March 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
If anyone's free tomorrow for a wee hand in the Three Sisters, you'll be fed and watered 😉
This beginners' growing class took place today at An Cultúrlann, West Belfast. The craic was 90, with everyone leaving with seeds, soil, a bit of knowledge, and big smiles.
Back in two weeks to learn how to make healing balms from plants and herbs, everyone is welcome!
Back in two weeks to learn how to make healing balms from plants and herbs, everyone is welcome!
February 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This beginners' growing class took place today at An Cultúrlann, West Belfast. The craic was 90, with everyone leaving with seeds, soil, a bit of knowledge, and big smiles.
Back in two weeks to learn how to make healing balms from plants and herbs, everyone is welcome!
Back in two weeks to learn how to make healing balms from plants and herbs, everyone is welcome!
A piece by Belfast Media Group on our recent meeting organised by Beechmount Residents Collective.
The Three Sisters Gardening Community and Clowney Alley were asked to contribute to the meeting, and it's great to see the positive action and message getting across. There's much more to come 🙏🌱
The Three Sisters Gardening Community and Clowney Alley were asked to contribute to the meeting, and it's great to see the positive action and message getting across. There's much more to come 🙏🌱
November 28, 2024 at 11:46 AM
A piece by Belfast Media Group on our recent meeting organised by Beechmount Residents Collective.
The Three Sisters Gardening Community and Clowney Alley were asked to contribute to the meeting, and it's great to see the positive action and message getting across. There's much more to come 🙏🌱
The Three Sisters Gardening Community and Clowney Alley were asked to contribute to the meeting, and it's great to see the positive action and message getting across. There's much more to come 🙏🌱