About us
Síolta Chroí ("Seeds of the Heart") is a not-for-profit social enterprise based outside Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, co-founded in 2020 by Gareth Conlon and Karen Jeffares to restore Ireland's ecosystems and communities. The team runs an environmental education centre offering courses and retreats on permaculture, regenerative agriculture, food forest design, mushroom cultivation, yoga and meditation; they demonstrate resilient local food systems on their own farm through agroforestry, market gardening and food forest planting; and they carry out hands-on ecosystem restoration locally, nationally and on European projects, including rehabilitating polluted rivers and lakes and boosting biodiversity as Ireland's first Ecosystem Restoration Camp.
Across a board (chaired by Hugh Doyle, with Deirdre Gavin as treasurer) and a network of facilitators and project leads spanning peacebuilding, environmental engineering, global education, food sovereignty and sustainability strategy, the underlying philosophy is that regenerating land and regenerating people are the same task ; practical work on soil, water and biodiversity, paired with the inner work of community, learning and care.
Across a board (chaired by Hugh Doyle, with Deirdre Gavin as treasurer) and a network of facilitators and project leads spanning peacebuilding, environmental engineering, global education, food sovereignty and sustainability strategy, the underlying philosophy is that regenerating land and regenerating people are the same task ; practical work on soil, water and biodiversity, paired with the inner work of community, learning and care.
