NatureWorks 2026: How a community is greening the grey

The Ballymun Biodiversity Action Group has created an extraordinary showcase for nature-friendly urban greening in a small green space in collaboration with a local school, businesses and philanthropic funders. NatureWorks 2026 will take place in the site of their pocket forest, orchard and pond. The event will bring together artists, biodiversity experts, urban growers, circular economy practitioners, business leaders and local nature activists to explore how nature can flourish when people work together.

Schedule

10.00 - 10.15: Welcome and tea/coffee

10.15 - 10.30: Grounding session in the Pocket Forest

10.30 - 12.30: Talks/workshops. Topics to include the Orchard Songlines Project with Maeve Stone, Bigger Ponds in Smaller Spaces with Rossa Cassidy, Communities Greening their Spaces with Caroline Conroy, and Pocket Forests with Catherine Cleary.

12.30 - 13.30: Picnic lunch in the pocket forest (weather allowing) or in the pastoral centre. Children from St Joseph's Senior National School who planted the forest do a bug hunt/drawing workshop.

13.30 - 14.00: Closing discussion

Artwork: Nature's Hues, 1980, Frances Crowe. This tapestry was woven from fleece spun by the artist and all the dyes were derived from plants.

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