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civic · Tuesday 18 August 2026 · 11:00 AM 
Saving Our Seeds, Saving Our Heritage - Dundalk Library
At Dundalk Library · Roden Place, Dundalk, Co. Louth
At Dundalk Library · Roden Place, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Dundalk Library runs a two-hour session titled “Saving Our Seeds: Saving Our Heritage” on Tuesday 18 August 2026, from 11am to 1pm. It is free and open to adults, and the library has marked booking as essential, so a phone call or email in advance is needed. The date puts it in the middle of National Heritage Week, which runs across Louth from 15 to 23 August 2026.
Seed saving sits at the point where gardening and heritage meet. Ireland has lost most of the vegetable and cereal varieties that were grown here before commercial seed catalogues standardised what people plant, and the surviving heritage varieties, the old kales, peas, apples and potatoes that were kept going in particular districts, exist now mainly because individual growers and organisations like the Irish Seed Savers Association kept collecting and replanting them. A session like this typically covers which crops are worth saving from, how to select and dry seed properly so it stays viable, how to store and label it over winter, and the legal oddity that many traditional varieties cannot be sold commercially in the EU because they are not on the official seed lists. Louth Libraries have run biodiversity and climate-themed programming for several years, so the workshop fits an existing strand rather than being a one-off.
Dundalk Library is on Roden Place in the town centre, next to St Patrick’s Cathedral and a short walk from Market Square. The bus station on the Long Walk is a few minutes away and Dundalk Clarke rail station on the Dublin to Belfast line is about fifteen minutes on foot. If driving, leave the M1 at junction 16 or 18 and follow the town centre signs; the Marshes Shopping Centre multi-storey and the Park Street car parks are the closest, since Roden Place itself has only a handful of metered spaces.
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