Brenda and Ann at Oakman Street community garden. (Image: Justin Kernoghan) In a Belfast street where most homes do not have gardens, one community initiative has provided those families with a space to enjoy - a communal garden. Spearheaded by local women who are passionate about green spaces, and positive mindsets within tight-knit communities, Three Sisters Community Garden Group West Belfast , is now hoping their Oakman Street project will plant a seed in the minds of others.
Brenda Gough, who is chair of the Three Sisters Community Garden Group praised the local community for its support for them and the garden, which has gone from strength to strength over the last few years. READ MORE: Calls for legal targets to protect and restore nature as NI 12th worst in world READ MORE: Belfast Council 'cut and paste' parks plans slated over nature failings "We set up the space around four years ago," Brenda told Belfast Live. "We didn't know at the time, how it would go because one of the problems that you have with these initiatives is that people will be very enthusiastic at the beginning, and that fades away.
Brenda and Ann at the community garden (Image: Justin Kernoghan) "The four of us who established the garden, are still there. Down the years we have grown so much food there, that we have been able to share it out with the community. We have grown tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, leeks, onions, all of those things that we would have in our every day diets.
"But we also landsca.