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Apple enthusiasts, mark your calendars for a special tour of the Irish Seed Savers orchards. These tours are ideal for anyone who is considering adding apple trees to their homes or community gardens and wants to sample different varieties before deciding which trees will work for them. Meet with Irish Seed Savers staff, learn about the important work that they do and fill up on all the apples you can eat!

Suitable rain gear and footwear for uneven and potentially muddy conditions will be required. Exact time of this event is subject to change.

Please note that contact information for registered attendees will be shared with Irish Seed Savers.

About Irish Seed Savers Association

Irish Seed Savers Association CLG has been in operation since 1991. Originating from an ambitious effort to create a central store of food crop seeds and fruit trees where none had previously existed, our work to date has been to research and protect rare, heritage and naturalised open pollinated food crop seeds and fruit trees on our 20 acre farm in County Clare. Curating the country’s public seed bank of 600 varieties of heritage seed and the country’s 180 varieties of heritage apple trees, our work has expanded over the years to include an education and outreach remit to not only connect more people to our work, but also to ensure the protection of these collections for the encouraging more people to grow open pollinated seeds for their food supply. Our main aim for our collections are preservation (find), conservation (keep alive through growing), and utilisation (sharing) for the continuation of these heritage food sources for now and future generations.

COVID-19
This event will be in strict adherence with government guidelines. All attendees will be asked to maintain social distancing of 2 meters and to use hand sanitizer upon arrival. Hand sanitizer will be readily available for the duration of the workshop. Attendees will be asked to complete a contact tracing form on arrival. We ask that you do not attend if you have any symptoms of COVID-19, if you have traveled overseas in the 14 days prior this event or if you have been in close contact with someone who has contracted COVID-19. This event is subject to change in line with any further government guidelines.  Please see our COVID-19 policy for more information at http://bit.ly/FoECOVID-19