Victorian Walled Gardens Social + Market

Victorian Walled Gardens Social + Market

Fun for all: Garden workshop tasters, Fresh bakes & hand made market, History & biodiversity tours.

By Festina Lente CLG

Date and time

Sun, 26 May 2024 11:00 - 14:00 GMT+1

Location

Festina Lente

Old Connaught Avenue A98 F702 Bray Ireland

About this event

  • 3 hours

All are welcome to our beautiful Victorian Walled Gardens.

Discover the biodiversity and crafts all generated from the grounds of our Gardens.

Not a sold out event! All Welcome!! You do not need tickets for this market.

There will be taster events for all ages and interests:

  • Garden Workshops: Heritage Seed Saving from the Back Garden, and Heritage Herbs - Creative and culinary uses
  • Tours: History and biodiversity tour of our rich allotment, ornamental and herbal thrivable quarters
  • Market: Fresh Bakes and hand made products made by our community in the grounds
  • Allotment social: meet our allotment owners
  • Garden Shop plant sale: 10-50% on selected seasonal plants
  • Meet the terrapins - feed, learn and terrapin crafts*
  • Cocoon and grounding yoga*

*All activities are free except for "Meet the terrapins nature craft workshop" and the "Cocoon and grounding yoga" - which you can book separately via Eventbrite. All proceeds go towards our work as a charity.

We have a Garden Shop that offers coffee, herbal teas and snacks.

We look forwards to meeting you!

For more information please email: sarah.jackson@festinalente.ie

Organised by

Festina Lente CLG

Festina Lente is a not-for-profit organisation provides a unique range of equestrian and horticultural activities, training, recreational events and employment services options with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, choice and personal development.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre offering lessons, camps and equine assisted programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden where we host lots of fun seasonal family and events, children’s workshops and birthday parties and gardening workshops,  a Garden Centre, an open air snack bar and shop so why not pop along for a visit.  Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming events!

We are also an education centre offering QQI accredited educational training courses:

We also offer other Equine Assisted programmes:

All activities encourage individual choice, personal development, achievement and progression and we are a registered Irish Charity.

Saol Anois is also a day service run by Festina Lente in our campus.  The Saol Anois Day Service is funded by Health Service Executive and it was set up in 2005 to meet the support needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and/or dual diagnosis.  It is a supportive and therapeutic service designed to meet the needs of people through individual plans. Service users have the opportunity to access a range of integrated developmental and leisure opportunities.

Our campus is situated in the grounds of what was once Old Connaught House, formerly the residence of the Plunket family. Read more on the History of Old Connaught House & Gardens and Festina Lente Foundation.  Festina Lente (Latin) means Hasten Slowly and is the Plunket family motto. We adopted this as the name of our organisation in 1995 because it conveys our culture perfectly.  Festina Lente was founded in 1988 by Mary Rachel Brophy; her aim was through social and economic inclusion, to support those most at risk.  The result of all of the Festina Lente’s hard work is the wonderful garden and state of the art Equestrian Centre which are available to the public to enjoy whenever they want.