Not a showcase site. A place where people shape what happens.
Annaghdown Community Garden is the community anchor of REAL Living Lab. Community activity, family knowledge, creative practice and scientific observation meet here.
The garden is useful to REAL precisely because it is lived in: people grow, volunteer, gather, notice wildlife, make things, ask questions and change the place together.
Community
Events, growing, volunteering, families and intergenerational participation.
Nature
Pond, meadow, plants and animals — with a growing record of what is observed over time.
Creativity
Nature-based pattern work and creative participation connect imagination with place.
Growing Together.
The garden retains its own community identity inside the wider REAL ecosystem. REAL does not absorb it; the partnership connects local knowledge and participation with broader learning, research and evidence practices.