Gilead Volunteers Dig Deep at IRD Duhallow Social Farm

By ELLIE DONOVAN Social Farming Coordinator

On Friday September 19th we had the pleasure of welcoming a group of volunteers from Gilead Life Sciences to IRD Duhallow Social Farm. We were delighted with the volume of work completed by the Gilead team, working together with our own Social Farmers from the New Directions group. Our apple trees were weeded and mulched with the finest manure, courtesy of John Holmes, local farmer and RSS participant. We also added manure and covered some of our beds in vegetable garden, ready for planting in Spring. We are very grateful to the team at Gilead Life Sciences for all their hard work on the day and the generous donation of tools. We are very thankful that IRD Duhallow Social Farming project was selected as Gilead’s charitable giving partner, and we would be delighted to welcome them back in the future.

Denis, Patrick, Brian and John collect apples in the orchard for Duhallow Community Food Service.

Gilead volunteers weeding and mulching the apple trees

Gilead volunteers, still smiling after their day’s work on IRD Duhallow Social Farm