Community Farm Barn Destroyed by Fire

Fundraising campaign by Jane Baker
  • €4,462.00
    raised of €4,000.00 goal goal
111% Funded
101 Donors
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Community Farm Barn Destroyed by Fire

Cloughjordan Barn Raising: Phase One

Cloughjordan Community Farm in County Tipperary, Ireland desperately needs a new barn. In the early hours of the 22nd August 2017 their barn was razed to the ground in a huge fire. The precious wooden barn was completely destroyed along with its contents that make everyday life on this biodynamic & organic farm possible: Horse-drawn trailers, a direct seeder, scuffler, ridger, winnower, corn drills, and horse tack, not to mention €1500 of hay, a tonne and a half of potatoes and lots of miscellaneous tools. We want to help them get back on their feet and replace some of what was lost.


Cloughjordan Community Farm

The community farm is a vital element of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage - a pioneering community aiming to live on the land in a way we'll all need to in the future - gently, productively, inter-dependently, and harmoniously with nature and with others. And that future is closer than we think.

The 12 acre farm produces weekly vegetables year-round for over 70 local households who collect from the Ecovillage. It's a member-owned co-operative employing two farmers, and provides education and experience for dozens of Wwoofers, Erasmus and EVS volunteers every year.

We were lucky to be part of a fantastic Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course at the Ecovillage over the past two weeks. We participated in learning directly on the farm and saw the vital role that it plays in the ecosystem and local economy of Cloughjordan and beyond. Less than 48 hours after the course finished, as we were preparing to volunteer at the farm, we woke to sirens and the sight of charred earth where the barn and its contents had once stood. As we sit and write this plea there is still smoke and steam rising into the air just a couple of hundred metres from our campervan.


Your Help

We feel compelled to put out this crowdfunder to help the farm meet its short term needs now, and get back some of what it lost. €4000 gets them back on their feet:

  • Food for horses (hay) and humans (potatoes)
  • Vital tools - seeder, scuffler, ridger etc
  • A temporary shelter to keep stuff dry
  • Any overfunding goes toward the future barn raising

In the long term, Cloughjordan Community Farm clearly needs to raise a barn - a proper barn - built in line with the values embodied in this Ecovillage - with natural materials, multipurpose, well thought through and designed, community led and inspired. Phase two.

Please give what you can and help this project continue to nourish, inspire and educate.

http://cloughjordancommunityfarm.iehttp://www.thevillage.ie/

Jane, Tom and Reuben Baker, and the Cloughjordan Permaculture students. August 2017

Fundraising Team

  • Jane Baker
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  • Campaign Owner
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  • UK
  • Tom Baker
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  • General Helper

Donors

  • ROISIN COSTELLO
  • Donated on Sep 15, 2017
€300.00
  • Máiréad Costin
  • Donated on Sep 14, 2017
  • A great cause, unfortunate accident. I hope you get enough to complete the project and more.

€20.00
  • David McMullin
  • Donated on Sep 13, 2017
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Sep 17

Together we achieved our €4000 target

Update posted by Jane Baker at 10:15 pm

Dear Friends of Cloughjordan Community Farm, Together we achieved our €4000 targetThanks to your generous support, we raised €4462 for Cloughjordan Community Farm through our Go Get Funding campaign. That’s over 111% of our target in just three weeks. This is an incredible achievement and means that the farm can. . . . .

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Donors & Comments

101 donors
  • ROISIN COSTELLO
  • Donated on Sep 15, 2017
€300.00
  • Máiréad Costin
  • Donated on Sep 14, 2017
  • A great cause, unfortunate accident. I hope you get enough to complete the project and more.

€20.00
  • David McMullin
  • Donated on Sep 13, 2017
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€20.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 10, 2017
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  • Sean McGleenan
  • Donated on Sep 08, 2017
€20.00
  • Tamara Mac Ginty
  • Donated on Sep 08, 2017
  • I absolutely love our farm and see it as one of the most sustainable elements of living in Cloughjordan. We have had lots of challenges and yet as a resilient community we keep growing and developing even through the difficult times. We've got a long way to go but just the promise of continued progress gives me hope for the future when our community may need to depend on our local food model. That so many other people understand the importance of developing a local and sustainable food source and are willing to help us through this most recent tragedy speaks highly of the spirit of the community and of those who share the vision of sustainability. Many thanks to all our friends!

€25.00
  • Ollie Moore
  • Donated on Sep 07, 2017
  • I love so many aspects of this farm, I wrote a poem about it. See Yes A to Z. Aka zing me with your celery stick. By Oliver Moore. Abundance? Often. Basics? Always...but bizarrely biodynamic too, so cosmic Community. Community owned and operated. Community..is -dense. - and intense. - like sitting on the electric fence. So... Dig for victory! Eat with Earth First! Fresh - beyond the beyonds. Grumble gaps...don't last long. Goodness, gracious great balls of golden turnips! Human-scale... horse-scale too. Inspirational. Compost loo. Split in two. To allow for two to poo poo...so Jump for joy! know thy food and know thy self. Local. Not thinkin' about lo-cal. Mmmmmmmmmmm.... - microbes - Mixed farming - music - meals -all manner of muck and magic Nourish me Open with everything. -produce, -people, -place, -promote -process, -participate, -parlance...a Praxis of identization. Give these 7P's a chance too eh? Q...in a supermarket sucker! My shop is spacious and 24-7 :-) Risky rewards, responsible relationships... Resilience - actualised. Sustainability - modernised. Transition...through soil, singing and ting-a ling-a linging Underground...is where the action is. Very veggie, voluminous volunteering, Wondorous wizardly workers, wild wwoofers, wilder wisemen and women who should know better than to make life so very very - unusual. - awkward. - not cheap. - complicated. - but yet still...so very very Worth-while. All the while... X-act-ly. Yes…. It’s Zingy.

€30.00
  • marcus briody
  • Donated on Sep 07, 2017
€20.00
  • Chris Taylor
  • Donated on Sep 07, 2017
€30.00
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€4,462.00
raised of €4,000.00 goal
111% Funded
101 Donors