Carraig Dúlra

BACKGROUND

Established in 2007, Carraig Dúlra Ltd is a family owned social enterprise (all profits are reinvested in its social and environmental mission) dedicated to providing education for sustainable development via development education informed experiences, and connections related to sustainable living. These subjects are shared through hands-on courses, local and national partnerships, and outreach projects in County Wicklow and beyond.

Each initiative is linked to helping people develop and maintain a connection to their community and to the natural world, and deepen their understanding of the local and global intersectional and interdependence of issues of poverty, justice, climate change, and the biodiversity crisis. Participants and volunteers learn how their actions can make a difference and how we can live more justly, healthily and sustainably into a resilient future.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Courses are offered as transformative experiential learning in areas such as permaculture design, bush craft, foraging and nature connection and ecology, organic gardening, cooking with unprocessed home grown ingredients, natural building: cob, straw bale, heritage skills, art, woodland crafts, art and natural well-being workshops, as well as how to create local livelihoods, sustainable business, skills exchange networks and community collaboration and more.

Staff and volunteers have been involved in outreach work supporting the setting up and supporting school and community gardens, and CSAs, community supported agriculture project. All the educational and outreach offerings have been underpinned with content that comes from the ethics of permaculture which are Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. The SDGs are part of the framework of Carraig Dúlra’s work, particularly those involving development education, climate action, regenerative land practices, responsible consumption.

Carraig Dúlra is a member of ECOLISE as European Network of networks working to support community led actions on climate change and sustainability.