Community gardening

A community garden is a garden -used as a piece of land that is used and managed jointly by a group of people.

Description

Community gardens are collectively operated gardens in the tradition of community gardens. The plots are mostly located in the city. Often, the gardens are open to the public. The legal status is very different. It may be occupations, but it can also be private land or public land. The initiators and supporters of community gardens can also be very different: neighbors, political groups, churches, schools and guerrilla gardeners. This is directly related to the specific objectives as well as local and regional conditions, needs and operated stakeholders. Many community gardens for example, have already come together with the aim of intercultural gardening. Here gardening people of different national origins together. The community gardens emerged in part from a newly awakened desire for the production of our own healthy food (especially in the big cities ), but also with the aim of exchanging with each other, not just about horticultural everyday and expertise, and level of maintenance of community life. Many gardens created by public funding, but with the aim of preserving its own power. Not all community gardens, however, are permanently secured.

A special form of community garden is the communal roof garden.

Another form of community garden is Garde sharing ( also land sharing), in which a landowner allows a gardener ( or more ) access to land, usually a garden to grow food. This can result in a contractual relationship between two people ( people in the legal sense, it can also be groups of people or entities ) or via the mediation of a web-based project. To share the country is not a gift economy but the Share Economy assign. Made possible the rapid access to the use of earth when community gardens can not be used or only on waiting lists.

Examples

Pink Rose ( Berlin)

An example of a community garden is pink rose in Berlin. Since May 2004, neighbors and neighbors took advantage of a jointly about 2000 m², consisting of three land surface in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg, a district with only a few inner-city green spaces. Much of this area has been cleared in the summer of 2008, the remaining community garden users tried using a signature campaign to secure the continued existence of their garden. 2009 but also the rest of the area was cleared.

Developing countries

Even in the development cooperation community gardens play an increasingly important role as they help to overcome the widespread micronutrient deficiencies and strengthen the cohesion of the parties beyond. In Cuba's agriculture play community gardens and agricultural cooperatives since the beginning of 1990, an important role for the supply of agriculture.