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GROW
Take part in our organic growing courses and grow your own vegetables.
Build your own house with the latest in green building techniques.
The Ecovillage offers courses in a range of areas.
Become part of a thriving and innovative community in Ireland's only ecovillage
Become part of a thriving community
in Ireland's only ecovillage
The Cloughjordan Ecovillage is a
not-for-profit organisation developing an alternative model for
sustainable living. The ecovillage aims to provide a healthy,
satisfying and socially-rich lifestyle while minimising ecological
impacts.
Our 67-acre site includes beautiful and
fertile land for growing food and trees to promote local food
production and biodiversity. The ecovillage will also include:
* 114 low energy homes and 16 live-work units
* A solar- and wood- powered community heating system
* Pedestrian pathways lined with fruit and nut trees, and a streamside walkway
* 50 acres of land for allotments, farming and woodland
* A green enterprise centre and broadband
* A centre of education for sustainable living
* An eco- hostel for visitors
* A nearby train station and local car-sharing scheme
The Cloughjordan Ecovillage is a not-for-profit organisation developing an alternative model for sustainable living. The ecovillage aims to provide a healthy, satisfying and socially-rich lifestyle while minimising ecological impacts.
Our 67-acre site includes beautiful and fertile land for growing food and trees to promote local food production and biodiversity. The ecovillage will also include:
> Community Heating System Installed
Two wood chip boilers have been installed into the newly constructed Energy Centre. Supplemented by energy from Ireland's largest array of solar panels, the wood chip boilers will supply hot water and space heating for all 130 homes
> First residents move in to ecovillage
The first residents of the ecovillage have moved into their new homes. 25 houses are currently under construction using a wide variety of ecological materials including lime-hemp, recycled timber blocks and low energy timber frame.
The first residents of the ecovillage have moved into their new homes. 25 houses are currently under construction using a wide variety of ecological materials including lime-hemp, recycled timber blocks and low energy timber frame.
> Eco-Enterprise Centre goes to tender
Enterprise Ireland has announced grant funding for the construction of an innovative eco-enterprise centre located in the ecovillage. The Enterprise Centre will provide an incubation space for new green business, providing community enterprise workspace infrastructure which clusters a number of manufacturing and service businesses within the common theme of eco-entrepreneurship. Through the promotion of new green business, the eco-enterprise centre will play a key part in developing a sustainable local economy in Cloughjordan. See Business and Livelihoods.