Kilkenny's Patrick Mullins aboard Nick Rockett after winning the Randox Grand National (Mike Egerton/PA)
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A special celebration day will take place in Jenkinstown this weekend to raise awareness around biodiversity and the importance of protecting the nature around us.
It is a Leave the Grass Grow initiaitve which is A Creative Ireland Collaboration hosted by the Acorn Project with Kilkenny artists Kasia Kaminska, Mairead Holohan, Maura Brennan, Michelle McMahon and Ross Stewart.
Leave the Long Grass Grow is a call to action. It calls artists and communities to give a voice to plant species facing decline in the biodiversity crisis through creative practice and ask how we can collectively act to restore biodiversity.
This autumn artists and communities have come together across Kilkenny in workshops in Graine, Callan, Thomastown , Graignamanagh , Kilkenny and Jenkinstown to explore how we can hold a collective vision for nature and her restoration in a series of nature immersion experiences, creative workshops, curated action days (seed saving /scything/ plant ID Workshops/ biodiversity recording) and wild food experiences in which participants came together to reflect on an ecological ethic based on systems thinking.
This project was initiated by Kilkenny Council Biodiversity Officer Bernadette Moloney .
Join us this Saturday, October 14 for a celebration day at Jenkinstown Woods between 4pm to 6pm
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