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April 23, 2020

11/12/2020

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During March 2020, we had planned to extend our opening times and facilities to the local community, we had planned a series of articles in the newspaper encouraging people to visit and explore the concept of community woodlands with us. So much of this plan relied on physical human interaction, but this element of course had to be postponed.

But then a Sleeping Giant woke up and gave us a gift!

Some of you might be aware of a project in Leitrim initiated by a lady called Lyn Brookes, she set up a go fund me called Sleeping Giant with the aim of buying land in Leitrim and planting a community woodland. The project couldn't go ahead and in January Lyn let everyone know that she was closing the go fund me and that donators could have a refund or their donations would be passed on to our Candlefield Community Woodland. Last week The Sleeping Giant project transferred €2,958 to Celtic Druid Temple.

Thank you Sleeping Giant!

Previous to this one of our wonderful members took up the call (pre lockdown) and collected over 2000 trees from a cancelled planting project and delivered them to the woodland here, he would have stayed to plant them as well only the lock down measures were announced. Thank you Dave!

We decided to share a large portion of the 2000 trees with our neighbours and realised that the community woodland truly has spread its roots. This month we have also received a number of new membership subscriptions and some very welcome donations from long standing members and contributors. Thank you all so much!

These gestures have raised our spirits and given us renewed energy. At a time when big industry supported by the State is treating trees as another resource to extract profit from, the actions of Sleeping Giant and our members are essential to restoring our relationship with the trees and the woodlands........
Read the full update on at this link https://www.celticdruidtemple.com/blog/meitheal-and-mead-indigenous-solutions

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