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JPTokyo, Japan
A citizen project keeping bees on Ginza rooftops to make urban green networks visible. Linked to rooftop gardens and local food culture, it helped spark urban beekeeping across Japan.
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DEBerlin, Germany
A mobile community garden reviving a vacant lot in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Its DIY container growing and composting made it a flagship example of reusing idle urban land through citizen participation.
prinzessinnengarten.net+2
GBTodmorden, United Kingdom
A citizen movement in a small UK town planting free-to-harvest crops in public gaps. Its 'edible town' concept has spread to communities worldwide.
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JPTokyo, Japan
An indoor farm created by staffing company Pasona inside its Otemachi headquarters, with rice paddies in the lobby and tomatoes in meeting rooms, pioneering the fusion of office and farm.
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USBerkeley, United States
A food-education program founded in 1995 by chef Alice Waters at a public middle school, using an organic garden and kitchen as classrooms to teach academics and the values of nourishment.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
SGSingapore, Singapore
Singapore's first commercial rooftop farm, established in 2011 atop an Orchard Road mall, growing vegetables and herbs while doubling as a community farm on weekends.
sfa.gov.sg+1
AUMelbourne, Australia
Established in 1982 on a reclaimed 10-acre former landfill near Melbourne, CERES is an environment park and urban farm combining environmental education, urban agriculture, and social enterprise.
ceres.org.au+1
BRSão Paulo, Brazil
A Brazilian NGO founded in 2004 by Hans Dieter Temp, creating organic gardens on unused land in São Paulo's periphery to generate jobs, improve nutrition, and advance social inclusion.
cidadessemfome.org+1
USChicago, United States
A Chicago rooftop farm that in 2008 became the first certified-organic rooftop farm in the US, growing pesticide-free produce atop an Edgewater restaurant and serving as a site for beekeeping and food education.
abc7chicago.com+1
NLRotterdam, Netherlands
A rooftop farm opened in 2012 on the Schieblock in central Rotterdam, the largest open-air roof farm in the Netherlands and an educational hub for urban agriculture and climate resilience.
dakakker.nl+1
USDetroit, United States
A Detroit non-profit supporting over 2,000 gardens, working toward a food-sovereign city where residents grow much of the produce they consume by activating vacant lots.
visitdetroit.com+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Operated by AgriMedia, Share Batake is one of Japan's largest networks of supported allotment gardens, letting beginners grow vegetables hands-free while also putting underused farmland to use.
agrimedia.jp+1
JPTokyo, Japan
A station-front garden built on artificial ground over buried Odakyu rail tracks, offering 300+ plots across about 5,000 m2 as an accessible urban allotment for beginners.
agris-seijo.jp+1
JPFukuoka, Japan
A bag-type home composter from Fukuoka-based Local Food Cycling, whose founder Yuiko Taira has promoted kitchen-waste composting for over 20 years, linking food-loss reduction and local soil-building through a 'nutrient cycle within a 2 km radius'.
lfc-compost.jp+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Japan's first 'experience farm', opened in Nerima in 1996, where a farmer leads instruction. Unlike simple allotments, it combines high-quality growing experience with preservation of urban farmland, and became a model copied nationwide.
city.nerima.tokyo.jp+4
JPKamakura, Japan
A community-composting pilot launched in Kamakura's Zaimokuza district in 2023, where residents bring food scraps to a worm composter built from scrap wood, generating neighbourly exchange and resource circulation through composting.
prtimes.jp+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Opened in 2022 atop Mitsubishi Estate's Otemachi Building, this sharing-type community farm invites anyone to take part, growing vegetables collectively under a concept of creating new urban 'commons'.
prtimes.jp+1
JPTokyo, Japan
An urban-farming NPO that began on a Shibuya rooftop, building farms and rice paddies on rooftops and urban gaps around Harajuku, Shibuya and Ebisu so that citizens can cultivate together and turn Tokyo into an 'edible forest'.
urbanfarmers.club+1
JPKyoto, Japan
Founded in 2007 by Kazuma Nishitsuji, MyFarm rehabilitates abandoned farmland across Japan into accessible experience farms for city dwellers, under the philosophy of a 'grow-your-own, eat-your-own society'.
myfarm.co.jp+1
CUHavana, Cuba
Born of the food and fuel crisis after the Soviet collapse, Havana's organopónicos are organic urban gardens that residents started on vacant lots and old parking sites in the early 1990s, spreading from the grassroots and, with state support, growing to supply much of the city's fresh produce.
en.wikipedia.org+1
FRParis, France
A shared-garden framework based on the City of Paris's 2003 'Main Verte' (Green Hand) charter, under which resident associations run gardens on city plots, committing to public access, events, composting and organic growing to spread social bonds and greenery.
paris.fr+1
HKHong Kong, Hong Kong
Founded in 2015, this Hong Kong social enterprise turns underused spaces such as rooftops into organic farms, having built 50+ urban farms across the city, and links food-loss reduction with education by composting building food waste back into the farms.
rooftoprepublic.com+1
KRSeoul, South Korea
Urban agriculture promoted as policy by the City of Seoul, with box-shaped plots on rooftops and building gaps where residents grow vegetables together; the city and districts subsidize most setup costs and run classes that foster community.
m.koreatimes.co.kr+1
ZACape Town, South Africa
Founded in 1982, this Cape Town non-profit supports small-scale citizen farming in the townships. True to its name 'farmers of the home', it provides training and supplies so residents of poor areas can grow organic vegetables, underpinning food security and livelihoods.
abalimibezekhaya.org.za+4
ESSeville, Spain
A permaculture garden on about 5,000 m2 of vacant land in Seville's historic centre, occupied by residents in 2004 for communal use. Grounded in recycling and self-management, it remains a rare green space and site of environmental education downtown.
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USSeattle, United States
Seattle's municipal community-garden program, P-Patch, dates to the 1970s. Residents grow food organically at sites across the city, and each garden's 'Giving Garden' donates its harvest to food banks.
seattle.gov+3
JPHamamatsu, Japan
Kyomaru-en in Hamamatsu is a pioneer of agriculture-welfare collaboration, employing people with disabilities since 1996. Under its 'universal agriculture' approach it designs tasks around each worker's abilities, building a farm business where anyone can work regardless of disability.
agrijournal.jp+1
JPAshikaga, Japan
Begun in 1958 when a teacher and pupils with special needs cleared a steep hillside in Ashikaga, it led to the founding of Kokoromi Gakuen in 1969. Grapes grown by residents with intellectual disabilities yield Japanese wines served even at international summits.
ja.wikipedia.org+1
JPTachikawa, Japan
A network of social farms run by Es-Pool Plus, sited in urban areas such as Tachikawa, Itabashi and Yokohama. Companies directly employ people with disabilities to do farm work, and the scheme has grown to more than 60 sites nationwide.
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USSan Diego, United States
The IRC turned a 2.3-acre vacant lot in San Diego's City Heights into an urban farm for refugees and immigrants. Opened in 2009, around 70 families grow foods from their homelands while putting down roots in a new country.
sandiego.gov+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A community resource in the London Borough of Lewisham for better mental health. In its green spaces people grow and cook food and make art together, a leading social-prescribing site supporting recovery and empowerment.
centreformentalhealth.org.uk+1
USChicago, United States
Growing Home runs USDA-certified organic urban farms on vacant Chicago lots and offers a 14-week paid job-training program to people with barriers to employment, using agriculture as a vehicle for personal and community renewal.
growinghomeinc.org+1
JPTama, Japan
In 2014 Aiwa Elementary in Tama became Japan's first Edible Schoolyard, modeled on Alice Waters' Berkeley program. The school garden and kitchen serve as 'living classrooms' where children learn through all five senses, from sowing to harvest, cooking and eating, as a formal subject. Pupils experience nutrient cycles, the interconnection of life and ties to their community.
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JPKoto, Tokyo, Japan
A licensed Koto-ward nursery in Tokyo built a full rooftop vegetable garden on its sunny roof in autumn 2019. Moving up from ground-floor planter boxes, children experience food education by sowing, observing, harvesting and cooking. MyFarm runs the monthly garden lessons, making it an urban model for pre-school children learning the link between farming and food.
myfarm.co.jp+1
USBrooklyn, New York, United States
The Coop School in Brooklyn runs a rooftop edible garden that turns scarce urban space into a place for children's food education. Registered in the Berkeley-founded Edible Schoolyard Project network, it converts a rooftop gap-space into a learning garden.
edibleschoolyard.org
AUMelbourne, Australia
Founded in 2004 by chef Stephanie Alexander, this 'pleasurable food education' program links school gardens with kitchens. Across more than 1,000 early-childhood services and schools in Australia, children grow, harvest, prepare and share food as curriculum-linked learning. It is internationally recognised as an evidence-backed food-education model.
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USWashington, DC, United States
Founded in 2008 by two native Washingtonians, this non-profit transforms under-used land into 'kid-driven gardens' in majority Black, Latino and immigrant neighborhoods that lack safe green space. Children aged 2-19 learn food education and community-building through growing, cooking and a youth cooperative that sells produce. It has developed over 100 projects in DC and nationwide.
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JPNationwide, Japan
A nationwide effort based on MAFF's case collection of food education advanced by children's cafeterias working with communities and gardens. Local cafeterias link to plots, harvest experiences and nearby farmers so children grow, harvest, cook and eat together. It connects the food cycle, local production-consumption and food-loss reduction with creating safe places for children.
maff.go.jp+3
JPFukuoka, Japan
A Fukuoka-based citizen group that has researched and spread the 'cardboard-box compost' method—decomposing kitchen waste using only microbes—for over two decades, turning household food scraps into compost within the neighborhood to build a 2-km-radius nutrient cycle.
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JPTokyo, Japan
A community-compost project hubbed at an Omotesando food court where residents within a 2-km radius bring household food scraps to compost together; the finished compost and vegetable-growing foster 'neighborly ties starting from soil' in central Tokyo.
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JPTokyo, Japan
A public-private food cycle in central Tokyo where Taito Ward, the Daimaru Matsuzakaya department store, and Local Food Cycling partner to compost household food scraps and grow vegetables at the Matsuzakaya Ueno rooftop garden.
matsuzakaya.co.jp+2
USBrooklyn, New York, United States
A fossil-fuel-free, bike-powered community-compost enterprise founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn, that collects and composts food scraps while creating good jobs for youth and green space, countering environmental racism and gentrification.
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USSeattle, United States
A hyperlocal cycle in Seattle's Chinatown-International District that turns neighboring restaurants' food scraps into compost for the Danny Woo Community Garden—the area's only green space—supporting elderly immigrant gardeners growing culturally significant foods.
restaurant2garden.com+2
NZAuckland, New Zealand
A neighborhood compost hub in Auckland's Kaipatiki that accepts residents' bokashi food scraps, turns them into compost for a teaching garden, and offers free workshops via Compost Collective in pursuit of the city's 2040 zero-waste goal.
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USLos Angeles, United States
In South Central Los Angeles, a 'food desert,' fashion designer Ron Finley began planting vegetables on curbside strips and vacant lots; it grew into a movement where residents build DIY edible gardens to provide fresh food and to teach nutrition and self-reliance.
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GBLondon, United Kingdom
A movable organic garden built inside builders' skips in the middle of the King's Cross redevelopment in London. Made largely (~90%) from reclaimed materials, with beehives and bug hotels, it turned a gap space into a site for youth education and community.
globalgeneration.org.uk+1
JPTokyo, Japan
A membership rental garden opened in 2009 on the rooftop of the Atre Ebisu station building directly connected to JR Ebisu Station. A rooftop-greening company converted an underused downtown rooftop into a come-empty-handed kitchen garden for citizens, pioneering rooftop-garden rollouts across Japan.
shibukei.com+1
JPOsaka, Japan
Launched Osaka's first urban beekeeping on the rooftop of the Yanmar Building in Umeda's Chayamachi district in March 2010. Rather than honey itself, its aim is promoting local greening through bee pollination and providing food and environmental education. It has expanded with an experience-based apiary in Hattori Ryokuchi park.
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JPFukuoka, Japan
A Fukuoka (Hakata) based NPO devoted to urban beekeeping and public outreach about honeybees. Under the motto that a town where bees fly is a good town, it keeps bees on building rooftops and other sites, drawing attention to the city's vanishing nature and linking people with nature and their community.
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JPNagoya, Japan
An urban-beekeeping NPO based in Naka-ku, Nagoya, formed in the wake of the 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity COP10 held in Nagoya. It keeps bees on a rooftop in the Nishiki district to raise interest in biodiversity and the environment through downtown beekeeping.
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USChicago, United States
A West-Side Chicago urban-beekeeping cooperative founded by three urban beekeepers in 2004. Originally aimed at job training in an area with scarce employment, it now runs more than 50 hives across the city with a focus on education, health, and awareness of urban nature.
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USSeattle, United States
A demonstration completed in fall 2012 that turned two concrete walls at the University of Washington's Gould Hall into urban habitat, combining a biodiversity green wall, an edible green screen, and rainwater harvesting. Roof-collected rainwater irrigates hop and kiwi vines, demonstrating reduced energy use, heat-island mitigation, and increased urban biodiversity.
sustainability.uw.edu+1
USNew Orleans, United States
Founded in 2006, this was the first replication of Alice Waters' Berkeley Edible Schoolyard. Gardens encircling the school and a kitchen classroom serve as living classrooms where students at low-income public charter schools learn from seed to table as part of the regular curriculum, now spread across four FirstLine schools.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
USBrooklyn, New York, United States
Opened in 2010 by transforming a concrete parking lot at Brooklyn's P.S. 216 into a half-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom, this is the NYC demonstration school. Children learn from seed to plate while growing about 160 crops, and the model has expanded to network schools in East Harlem and the Bronx, reaching thousands of students.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
JPChuo, Tokyo, Japan
Opened in spring 2022 on a building rooftop in Tokyo's Nihonbashi-Kayabacho, this urban community garden grows about 200 species of edible plants. Run by Heiwa Real Estate with Edible Schoolyard Japan as an 'edible schoolyard' in the city, it hosts food education for the nearby Sakamoto Elementary School and community exchange, and has won green-city awards.
edibleschoolyard-japan.org+1
JPChuo, Tokyo, Japan
Following its work at Aiwa Elementary in Tama, Edible Schoolyard Japan extended edible education to central Tokyo, where pupils of Chuo Ward's Sakamoto Elementary School take edible lessons linked to the nearby Edible KAYABAEN rooftop garden. It brings garden-based food education, from seed to table, into an inner-city public elementary school.
ediblekayabaen.jp+3
GBLondon (national), United Kingdom
Launched in 2007 by the Royal Horticultural Society, this is the UK's largest school-gardening campaign. It gives children aged 2–18 opportunities to grow plants and connect with nature, supporting over 30,000 schools and groups and some 2.1 million children, and promotes gardening as a teaching tool through teacher training and resources.
rhs.org.uk+1
JPKobe, Japan
The farmers market at the heart of EAT LOCAL KOBE, the local-food platform Kobe City launched in 2015. Held in the public space of Higashi Yuenchi park south of City Hall, it began as an experiment to build a small local food cycle that brings producers and eaters closer, and has since grown into a permanent FARMSTAND shop and the wider Gastropolis Kobe vision.
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JPKobe, Japan
A permanent shop that lets people experience the weekly EAT LOCAL KOBE Farmers Market every day. Open daily in Kobe's Kitanozaka, it sells local agricultural and marine products, processed goods, drinks and bread, with a cafe, serving as a standing hub for connecting producers and consumers.
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JPKobe, Japan
A farming school launched in 2020 within EAT LOCAL KOBE's urban-farming work. Based in the Kamiatago district of Kobe's Kita ward, it teaches residents who want farming as a livelihood—not just self-sufficiency—through hands-on training by local farmers, aiming to nurture Kobe's distinctive part-time micro farmers.
eatlocalkobe.org+1
JPKobe, Japan
Kobe's urban-farming push covers gardens in downtown parks, vacant lots and rooftops where residents grow and harvest their own food. Beyond raising interest in agriculture, it builds community and tackles city issues such as putting vacant land and houses to use, with the city's Machi no Noen Navi guiding people to the spots.
city.kobe.lg.jp+1
JPKobe, Japan
An allotment garden opened in August 2022 on temporarily used development land on Port Island (Phase 2). On a man-made island known for advanced medical facilities, it offers beginner plots, level-up plots and welfare plots where people can grow vegetables empty-handed, barbecue and join harvest events.
city.kobe.lg.jp+3
JPKobe, Japan
A pillar of EAT LOCAL KOBE that communicates the possibilities of rice and miso and a new rural future. Run by the Ryokushosha cooperative, it grows rice without agrochemicals and makes miso from its own soybeans and rice, reframing the value of rice and miso that Japanese people are forgetting.
eatlocalkobe.org+1
JPKobe, Japan
A roughly six-month intensive program focused on starting businesses and livelihoods in the rural districts of Kobe's Kita and Nishi wards. In areas facing depopulation and vacant houses, it aims to create a new rural culture unique to Kobe, where a big city sits compactly beside the countryside, training people through lectures and fieldwork on using vacant houses and satoyama resources.
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JPKobe, Japan
A Kobe City effort in the rural Kita and Nishi wards to promote urban-rural exchange and rural settlement. In countryside only about 30 minutes from the city center, rural-settlement coordinators bridge visitors to residency amid vacant-house and abandoned-farmland challenges, while residents, students and universities work on satoyama biodiversity conservation and terraced-field restoration.
city.kobe.lg.jp+2
JPHino, Japan
A community garden in Hino City, Tokyo, started by citizens who believe 'kitchen waste is a treasure.' It collects and composts the kitchen waste of around 200 households and grows vegetables and flowers pesticide-free as a food-cycle garden. Naomi Shimpo studied its management and governance in detail in her 2021 and 2024 papers.
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JPNerima, Tokyo, Japan
Nerima created Japan's first agricultural experience farm in 1996 and is a pioneer of urban agriculture. The 'Nerima model', in which farmers act as instructors for residents, has spread nationwide, with over a dozen farms still operating in the ward. It is a leading model for using urban farmland as a place of learning and community exchange.
city.nerima.tokyo.jp+3
JPNerima, Tokyo, Japan
Using Tokyo's Agricultural Landscape Conservation District system, Nerima designated the Takamatsu (2015) and Minami-Oizumi (2019) districts. It carries dwindling urban farmland forward as open space and protects the agricultural landscape community-wide — a leading case of urban farmland conservation.
city.nerima.tokyo.jp+4
JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya's agriculture-welfare programme launched in 2021. Through farm work on local farmland it promotes employment and higher earnings for people with disabilities while conserving farmland and fostering disability understanding. Centred on the 'Setasora' hub farm, it is a public-private urban welfare farm.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya provides a range of official ways for residents to engage with urban farming: Family Allotments (~10 sqm fully equipped plots), harvest and planting experiences at Fureai farms, a JA farmers market for 'Setagaya-sodachi' produce, and a map of about 110 farm stands.
city.setagaya.lg.jp+2
JPYokohama, Japan
Under its Midori-Up Plan, Yokohama develops citizen farms and harvest-experience farms and, since 2014, runs the 'Yokohama Farm Expedition' agri-tour. It officially expands opportunities for residents to engage with farming while conserving farmland that remains in the large city.
city.yokohama.lg.jp+3
JPNagoya, Japan
The Nagoya Agricultural Center (nicknamed 'dela Farm'), an agricultural park opened in 1965 and fully renovated in 2024, serves as a hub where residents deepen their understanding of farming through hands-on growing at its Citizen Garden and other municipal farms across the city.
city.nagoya.jp+3
JPFukuoka, Japan
Fukuoka develops municipal 'refresh' farms and instructor-led experience farms to support residents' farming activity for soil contact, health, food education and social interaction, while officially running new-farmer programmes like Agri-Challenge — an urban-agriculture policy of a major Kyushu city.
city.fukuoka.lg.jp+1
JPKokubunji, Tokyo, Japan
Kokubunji launched farm-support volunteering in 1996 and certifies residents who learn cultivation year-round at its Citizen Agriculture College, introducing them to local farmers. About 80 volunteers are now active, and the city also supports six experience farms — a workforce-building urban-agriculture policy.
city.kokubunji.tokyo.jp+3
JPKawasaki, Japan
Kawasaki maintains an Urban Agriculture Promotion Center and develops varied farm-contact venues — citizen farms, instructor-led experience farms, community-exchange farms and pick-your-own farms. Through programmes like Asao green tourism it uses surviving urban farmland as a place of exchange and learning.
city.kawasaki.jp+3
JPSaitama, Japan
Saitama operates several municipal community farms, including recreation gardens and the Citizens' Forest Community Farm, with instructor-supported plots, giving residents farm experience, community exchange and nature learning — a participatory urban-agriculture policy harnessing a designated city's greenery and farmland.
city.saitama.lg.jp+1
JPSuginami, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo's first municipally run agriculture-welfare farm, opened April 2021 in Igusa, Suginami, on a barrier-free 3,200 m2 site giving people with disabilities and seniors a place to engage in farming.
city.suginami.tokyo.jp+1
JPHadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Hadano's first experience-type farm, opened April 2018 with support from JA Hadano and the city's urban-farmland conservation council, using spring water from a nationally designated source and featuring a biotope pond.
jacom.or.jp+1
JPKyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan
A Kyotanabe employment-support workshop operating since 2011 that grows regional specialties (Uji tea, Tanabe eggplant, Kyoto taro) and became one of the first Noufuku JAS certified businesses in 2019.
maff.go.jp+3
JPTokyo, Japan
A new-farmer network coordinated by the Tokyo Agricultural Council that used the 2018 lease facilitation law to achieve Japan's first new entry into farming via leased productive greenland in 2019.
tosinouti.or.jp+1
JPMatsukawa, Nagano, Japan
A farming company in Matsukawa, Nagano producing apples and apple juice; one of the first four businesses certified under Noufuku JAS in November 2019, pioneering agriculture-welfare in an orchard region.
maff.go.jp+2
JPNishitokyo / Higashikurume, Tokyo, Japan
An area-management organization created alongside the redevelopment of the large Hibarigaoka Danchi spanning Nishitokyo and Higashikurume, Tokyo. Its hub 'Hibari Terrace 118', a renovated former housing block, includes a community garden and lawn plaza where residents connect through planting, harvesting and seasonal events.
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JPHino, Tokyo, Japan
One of UR's danchi-regeneration projects reusing the blocks of the former Tamadaira Danchi (1958) in Hino, Tokyo. With the ~45-plot 'Hidamari Farm', a 'Colony Garden' inspired by Danish kolonihave, and a fruit-bearing yard, it is garden-equipped rental housing where residents and locals connect through growing food.
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JPZama, Kanagawa, Japan
A 1960s Odakyu company-housing complex by Zama station, regenerated in 2015 into a mix of rentals, municipal housing and a childcare-support center. Its central plaza holds the guidance-supported 'Hatamusubi' rental garden and a dog run, aiming to be housing open to the community that links people, nature and town.
odakyu-fudosan.co.jp+2
JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
A flagship of UR's 'Future of Danchi' project at Yokodai Chuo Danchi in Isogo Ward, Yokohama. Directed by architect Kengo Kuma and creative director Kashiwa Sato, it renewed facades, plazas, small parks and the meeting hall, regenerating outdoor space and daily life through resident workshops (the Kamome Project), a community cafe and planting and markets.
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JPKashiwa, Chiba, Japan
The 'Kashiwa Project', launched in 2009 by Kashiwa City, the University of Tokyo's Institute of Gerontology and UR at Toyoshikidai Danchi (over 40% elderly) in Chiba. Using rooftop farms, plant-cultivation units and nearby farmland in the rebuilt complex, it embeds agriculture as 'ikigai' employment for seniors, advancing alongside community-based integrated care.
ur-net.go.jp+2
JPSakai, Osaka, Japan
At the public-corporation rental complex Chayamadai Danchi in Senboku New Town, Sakai, Osaka, the Osaka Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation runs the 'Hibikiau Danchi Life' regeneration project. In an aging complex with rising vacancies, it revives residents' lives and community through a DIY workshop, library, deli, mobile vegetable sales and lemon cultivation in vacant spaces.
danchi-renovation.com+2
JPMunakata, Fukuoka, Japan
The 'Satozukuri 48' community-cocreation project regenerated the former Block 48 of Hinosato Danchi (1971, once Kyushu's largest) in Munakata, Fukuoka, into the mixed hub 'Hinosato 48' with a nursery, DIY workshop and an on-site brewery in 2021; the on-site 'Hinosato Farm' lets multiple generations interact through farming and food.
ur-net.go.jp+4
JPMinato, Tokyo, Japan
A rooftop paddy and field in Mori Building's Roppongi Hills where, for over 20 years, residents and workers and their children have planted and harvested rice. A pioneering case embedding a Japanese agricultural landscape and community activity within a high-rise mixed-use development.
mori.co.jp+2
JPMinato, Tokyo, Japan
An orchard, edible garden and urban beekeeping programme within the large green spaces of Azabudai Hills (opened 2023). An ~200 sqm orchard grows 11 fruit species plus herbs and edible plants; children's honey harvests and greening workshops connect residents, workers and citizens to food and farming in the city centre.
azabudai-hills.com+2
JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
A vegetable plaza in the rooftop Roof Garden of Tokyu's Futako-Tamagawa Rise redevelopment, where local schoolchildren and kindergarteners grow vegetables pesticide-free from sowing to harvest. A community-participation food-education garden built into a station-front redevelopment.
nikotama.keizai.biz+1
JPHigashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan
An agriculture-experience project Tokyu Land opened in May 2025 on ~800 sqm of farmland in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, for residents of its BRANZ condominiums. With shared and individual plots covering sowing to harvest, cooking and networking, it links city residents to a rural community and nature — a new model of a developer extending a condominium farming community onto rural farmland.
tokyu-land.co.jp+2
JPChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
An urban-beekeeping project by Mitsubishi Estate and the Ecozzeria Association on rooftops in the Otemachi-Marunouchi district. Area workers join beekeeping, honey harvesting and forage planting, with the honey circulating back into the district — a worker-participation model of rooftop food/biodiversity town-making.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
In 2020 Mitsui Fudosan Residential launched, via its Mitsui no Sumai LOOP membership service and with JA Setagaya-Meguro, an experience-farm and harvest-event program. On a roughly 6,000 sqm farm near Sakurajosui Station, members take part in actual farming from sowing to harvest; one winter-vegetable harvest event drew about 400 groups.
mitsuifudosan.co.jp+2
JPKashiwa, Chiba, Japan
An experience rental farm at Oak Village Kashiwanoha, near Kashiwanoha-campus Station inside Mitsui Fudosan's Kashiwanoha Smart City area. Citizens held 10 sqm plots on a garden-like ~6,000 sqm farm and grew vegetables organically. It was part of a 'food and farming' complex with a farm restaurant and BBQ, but has since closed.
gardenhotels.co.jp+1
JPTokyo, Japan
31VENTURES, Mitsui Fudosan's venture arm, ran a 2023 staff farming pilot using Share-batake, the rental farm of portfolio company Agrimedia. Group employees joined by open call and grew vegetables from sowing to harvest to test whether farming improves internal communication. The investment marked Mitsui adding 'farming-based town building' as a focus area.
31ventures.jp+4
JPKashiwa, Chiba, Japan
In Mitsui Fudosan's Kashiwanoha Smart City (Kashiwa, Chiba), resident-participatory town-building themed on food, farming and health is run with UDCK and Chiba University. Chiba University's environmental-health center returns plant-factory technology to residents' lives, generating new lifestyles and exchange through food and farming. The 'A-shi-ta' town health lab gathers a ~3,700-resident community, and resident-involved food/health pilots (e.g., the Meiji 'Yogurt for the City's Future' project) are conducted.
mitsuifudosan.co.jp+4
JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
A membership-based urban experience farm launched by Nomura Real Estate with JA Setagaya-Meguro in November 2020 in Nakamachi, Setagaya. Over 2,000 sqm of member-owned productive green land is leased and divided into roughly 200 plots (3.6 sqm each) rented to residents and citizens. JA farmers and advisors support cultivation, and with seeds, seedlings, fertilizer and tools provided, even beginners can experience real farming from planting to harvest empty-handed. It aims to preserve shrinking urban farmland while fostering food education and community.
jacom.or.jp+3
JP京都市 / Kyoto, Japan
A rain garden built by Kyoto City at a road intersection using traditional garden-making techniques such as karesansui (dry landscape). It takes in road runoff through an inlet and temporarily stores and infiltrates it in a gravel bed (suhama) up to ~30 cm thick, simultaneously delivering flood mitigation, groundwater recharge, heat-island relief, water purification and landscaping—an iconic multifunctional green infrastructure case.
city.kyoto.lg.jp+1
JP東京都世田谷区 / Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
The corridor created by undergrounding the Odakyu line (Shimokita Senrogai) was regenerated as continuous green infrastructure of a rain-garden plaza, open meadow and planting strips. The municipal Shimokita Rain Garden Plaza is designed so people can cross on stepping stones even when water pools, delivering stormwater management, biodiversity and community. The citizen group Shimokita Engei-bu is deeply involved through planting, beekeeping and composting.
shimokitazawa.info+2
DEアンダーナッハ / Andernach, Germany
A unique German city-led project that replaced ornamental flowerbeds with edible crops in public space, free for citizens to harvest. Spanning ~8,000 sqm in the city center plus 13 ha in the suburbs, it is internationally known as multifunctional productive green infrastructure delivering food supply, biodiversity, social cohesion and education at once.
use.metropolis.org+2
USニューヨーク市 / New York City, United States
GrowNYC has built more than 120 rainwater-harvesting systems, rain gardens and bioswales in community gardens and schools across the city. In combined-sewer New York, these capture and reuse rainwater on site, diverting over a million gallons a year from the sewer system while enabling citizens to grow more food, conserve water and improve water quality.
grownyc.org+1
JPTokyo, Japan
A greened low-rise terrace of a Takeshiba office tower with a rice paddy, vegetable beds and beehives, run as corporate branding offering growing experiences to workers and local children.
tokyu-land.co.jp+3
JPTokyo, Japan
Urban beekeeping launched March 2016 on the rooftop of Mitsukoshi's Nihonbashi flagship — a clear example of a for-profit (department store) using city ecology and local food culture for its own branding.
mi-journey.jp+1
USStratham, United States
A headquarters-lawn garden run by employee volunteers in New Hampshire, donating produce proceeds to a food bank — a flagship employee-engagement CSR case.
3blmedia.com
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A rooftop community garden at IKEA's flagship Greenwich store (opened 2019), where a retailer combines branding with citizen participation by opening the space free to the community.
ikea.com
MXQuerétaro, Mexico
An employee garden launched in 2017 at a Querétaro plant, run as participatory CSR aiming to supply much of the canteen's vegetables in-house.
3blmedia.com
CAVancouver, Canada
A hotel chain's rooftop beekeeping program begun in 2008, spanning 20+ properties — a flagship corporate CSR linking brand sustainability with guest participation.
fairmontbeesustainable.com+1
USNew York, United States
A real-estate firm built a Brooklyn Grange-operated organic rooftop farm atop its office building for tenant employees — a flagship corporate (real-estate) branding rooftop farm.
agritecture.com
JPTokyo, Japan
A participatory farm inside Yebisu Garden Place run jointly by the Urban Farmers Club NPO and Sapporo Real Estate — a corporate-partnership case turning a developer's complex into a citizen growing space.
workmill.jp+1
JPTokyo, Japan
A project turning a 1,500㎡ plot of national land in Harajuku into a citizen-built organic community garden for under a year (opened April 2025) — a flagship case of interim use before redevelopment.
project.nikkeibp.co.jp+1
JPOsaka, Japan
A flagship case of turning a vacant lot in Suminoe, Osaka into a community farm as interim pre-development use (opened 2012), linking a landowner's idle property to creative placemaking.
greenz.jp+4
JPTokyo, Japan
A temple parking lot in Sumida, Tokyo turned into a community farm by citizens through the priest's free loan (completed 2020) — a pattern of interim citizen greening of idle temple land.
note.com+1
JPOsaka, Japan
Japan's first allotment built on top of a sewage-treatment plant, opened by Osaka City in 2005 — a pioneering reuse of unused public-infrastructure airspace for citizen growing.
city.osaka.lg.jp+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Community gardens created under the JR Chuo Line viaduct by the NPO birth and JR East with citizen participation (since 2014) — a pattern for using railway viaduct gap space for citizen greening.
npo-birth.org+3
JPKawasaki, Japan
A Kawasaki planned-road site (~640㎡) used by the community as interim greenery/growing space until the road project advances — a pattern of citizens temporarily using a government project site.
mlit.go.jp+2
JPYokohama, Japan
An under-used Yokohama city soil-storage site turned into an interim community garden by a local group — a pattern of citizens temporarily using government under-used land.
mlit.go.jp+2
JPRikuzentakata, Japan
Gardens opened near temporary housing in Rikuzentakata after the 2011 disaster, with a prefectural hospital borrowing idle land free (since 2012) — using interim disaster-area land for elderly health and interaction.
reconstruction.go.jp+1
JPIshinomaki, Japan
In tsunami-hit Ogatsu (Ishinomaki), citizens turned disaster- and relocation-vacated land into a flower garden (opened 2012, relocated/reopened 2018) — a model of interim land use and community recovery.
gardenstory.jp+1
GBGlasgow, United Kingdom
A Glasgow program (since 2011) putting stalled development sites to interim use as citizen gardens, with the city enabling temporary use via short-term leases and grants — a leading overseas example.
glasgow.gov.uk
ATVienna, Austria
A Vienna program (since 2015) that funds citizens to temporarily turn public space into gardens, growing spaces and parklets — an overseas model of government funding citizen interim use.
planetizen.com
FRParis, France
Paris's 2015 citizen greening permit and Parisculteurs calls open public space and rooftops to citizen/operator urban farming via temporary occupation permits — a leading institution-based interim-use example.
parisculteurs.paris
USDetroit, United States
In Detroit, the land bank cheaply leased 35 acres of vacant city land for urban farming that also supports people in recovery (since 2015) — a pattern of interim leasing of vacant land with a buy option.
crainsdetroit.com
NLRotterdam, Netherlands
A Rotterdam rail-yard site provided by the city as interim use before redevelopment and turned into a city farm (2012–2018) — a leading overseas 'meanwhile farm'.
urbangreenbluegrids.com
USChicago, United States
A Chicago land trust (founded 1996) that secures citizens' otherwise-temporary community gardens permanently by taking title and leasing back at a nominal fee — the 'permanent-protection' end of interim use.
neighbor-space.org
CNShanghai, China
Opened in July 2016 as Shanghai's first open-community urban farm. A narrow vacant lot, left unused because a major municipal tunnel runs beneath it, was transformed into a resident-participatory permaculture garden.
journal.hep.com.cn+1
CNShanghai, China
Baicaoyuan ('herbal garden') is a roughly 200 m² resident-run garden in the central square of a Yangpu neighbourhood. Supported by Clover Nature School, it is a representative resident-managed community garden.
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CNShanghai, China
Completed November 2019, a ~450 m² community 'habitat garden' reclaimed from a rubble dump, with native plants, a pond and vegetable beds that provide habitat for urban wildlife while connecting residents to nature. It is the first of Shanghai's habitat-garden network (24 gardens by 2023).
nature.org+1
CNShanghai, China
Completed July 2020, a large ~5.2-hectare community garden in Zhuanghang Town, Fengxian District. Drawing on the area's rice-farming identity, it is an open agricultural park centred on children's farming experiences and food education.
mooool.com+1
CNShanghai, China
A citywide movement begun in 2014 to spread resident-participatory community gardens across Shanghai. Led by the non-profit Clover Nature School, co-founded by Tongji University's Liu Yuelai, it turns neglected spaces into citizen-built edible green areas.
theworldofchinese.com+1
CNShenzhen, China
Launched by the Shenzhen government in 2019, the 'We Garden' program is a government-led participatory model in which residents jointly turn idle urban land into green spaces and community gardens; several hundred had been built by the end of 2023.
mdpi.com+1
CNChengdu, China
A resident-led, environment-friendly rooftop vegetable garden launched in 2014 by the Xingrong Community Committee in Chengdu. It practises an organic cycle using rainwater irrigation and kitchen-waste compost, with 23 households growing vegetables together.
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CNChongqing, China
Built in 2018 on a developer's residential complex in central Chongqing, this is one of the city's first rooftop community gardens designed for seniors. With accessible garden beds, it is a welfare and community space where elderly residents can take part in gardening.
landezine-award.com+1
TRIstanbul, Turkey
Historic market gardens (bostans) surviving along Istanbul's Theodosian Walls since Byzantine and Ottoman times. While preserving organic urban agriculture and heirloom seeds, gardeners, citizens and activists have joined forces to resist redevelopment plans. The Yedikule marul (lettuce) has become a symbol of their struggle.
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JOAmman, Jordan
A rooftop-garden project aiming to create a green oasis in dense, concrete refugee camps and reconnect refugees with their agricultural heritage. It offers a low-tech response to food insecurity and fosters community self-reliance, expanding from a prototype on the Jadal rooftop in Amman to implementation in Jerash refugee camp.
jordantimes.com+3
PSDheisheh / Bethlehem, Palestine
With little access to farmland and about 40% of West Bank refugees food-insecure, this program uses shelter rooftops so families can grow vegetables. It began with roughly 11 families in Dheisheh camp and is envisioned to expand to other West Bank camps to reduce aid dependence and build self-reliance.
unrwa.org+1
LBTripoli / Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon
An ANERA project spreading low-cost rooftop gardening with recycled containers among residents of a Palestinian refugee camp destroyed and rebuilt after the 2007 fighting. Residents such as 62-year-old Om Maher grow vegetables, herbs and fruit trees on their roofs, supporting food security and the rebuilding of their lives.
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LBBeirut, Lebanon
Amid Beirut's economic crisis and food insecurity, a citizen-run urban-farming garden on the rooftop of an art center. As a counter to monocultural and monopolistic structures, it offers a model of local cooperation grounded in sharing and collaboration.
beirutartcenter.org+1
EGCairo, Egypt
A community rooftop-farming initiative led by the social enterprise Schaduf that turns unused rooftops in Cairo's informal neighbourhoods into productive gardens. Working with GIZ and civil society, it pursues food production, microclimate improvement and social inclusion and income for women and youth. Though it uses low-tech water beds, participation and self-reliance of low-income households are at its core.
akzente.giz.de+2
ILTel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
A network of community gardens spreading across Tel Aviv and Israel where residents grow organic vegetables together, reviving a lost sense of neighbourly sharing and fostering more sustainable living. Gardens in poorer neighbourhoods are supported by several civic organisations and serve as places of social inclusion.
communitygardensisrael.org+1
RUMoscow, Russia
A citizen-participation garden run by the Green School inside central Moscow's Gorky Park. Families and children grow eggplant, cabbage, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, salad greens, mint, sage and more in their own beds, functioning as an urban educational platform for learning to grow food.
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RUSaint Petersburg, Russia
A resident-led urban gardening community on the Karpovka River embankment on St Petersburg's Apothecary Island. It links the island's 18th-century history of medicinal-herb gardens with contemporary urban gardening practice.
city-farmer.ru+1
RUSaint Petersburg, Russia
A community garden that appeared in 2020 in St Petersburg's Primorsky Victory Park, where residents grow herbs and salad greens in wooden planters; strong interest led to expansion of the plots.
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RUYekaterinburg, Russia
Yekaterinburg's first community garden, opened in 2021 in Mayakovsky Central Park by converting an old greenhouse once used to grow the park's flowers. Residents rent beds free of charge and grow plants year-round.
e1.ru+1
RUKazan, Russia
A community garden running since 2017 in Kazan's Gorkinsko-Ometyevsky Forest. Within an urban nature park surrounded by new residential developments, residents tend plots and enjoy harvests alongside lectures and workshops.
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ARRosario, Argentina
Rosario's municipal urban agriculture program, launched in 2002 in response to the economic crisis. A 2004 ordinance institutionalized the 'Parque Huerta' (garden park), turning vacant land into public spaces for agroecological food production.
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ECQuito, Ecuador
A participatory urban agriculture program run since 2002 by the city of Quito through its economic development agency CONQUITO, promoting agroecology-based self-production of food and advancing social, climate and gender justice.
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COBogotá, Colombia
A district program of urban and peri-urban agroecological agriculture run by Bogotá's José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden. Since 2004 it has trained citizens and supported gardens, and is regarded as a Latin American reference case.
bogota.gov.co+1
COMedellín, Colombia
Medellín's urban agriculture program. The 2005 'Ecohuertas Urbanas' is its flagship project, and together with the successor 'Huertas con Vos' it advances food security and social cohesion.
medellin.gov.co+1
PELima, Peru
An urban agriculture project running since 2004 in Villa María del Triunfo, southern Lima, using vacant land under high-voltage power lines for women-led ecological gardens that build food security and community resilience.
corresponsables.com+1
CLSantiago, Chile
Inaugurated in 2007 as the first urban community garden in the Santiago metropolitan area by the municipality of La Pintana; with a 700 m² parcelled garden and pioneering composting, it sustains agricultural traditions in a low-income commune.
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BRBelo Horizonte, Brazil
Urban agriculture rooted in Belo Horizonte's food security policy, with over three decades of experience; centred on a community-garden program created in 2017, it supports residents' production with seedlings and training.
prefeitura.pbh.gov.br+1
BRRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro's urban agriculture program, launched in 2006, establishing agroecological gardens in schools and vacant lots and supporting food security in favelas and vulnerable areas through composting, seedling production and food education.
carioca.rio+1
UYMontevideo, Uruguay
Community gardens run as part of Montevideo's urban agriculture program (PAU-IMM), supporting family, community and educational gardens and embodying a distinctly Uruguayan style of participatory urban agriculture.
montevideo.gub.uy+1
BOEl Alto, Bolivia
Urban and peri-urban agriculture begun in 1984 in El Alto (about 4,000 m altitude), using FAO-supported solar greenhouses and women-led household gardens to improve food security at high altitude.
fao.org+1
CAVancouver, Canada
A social enterprise that transforms vacant urban lots into portable container farms, providing 'good food and good jobs' to socially marginalised residents. It was founded in 2008 by Michael Ableman and Seann Dory.
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CAToronto, Canada
An 8-acre urban farm in Toronto's vulnerable Jane-Finch neighbourhood dedicated to food justice, education and sustainability. It was founded in 2013 with Everdale Environmental Learning Centre and the TRCA as founding partners.
blackcreekfarm.ca+1
CAToronto, Canada
Two rooftop farms on the TMU (formerly Ryerson) campus that combine food production, research and community engagement through ecological rooftop farming. It began when a 2004 green roof was converted into a market garden in 2013 by a student-led initiative.
torontomu.ca+1
CAMontreal, Canada
A Montreal non-profit founded in 1995 to connect youth and seniors, linking a rooftop garden, composting and bicycle-based meal delivery. It is described as the only Meals-on-Wheels service in Canada that grows its own food.
santropolroulant.org+1
CAMontreal, Canada
Montreal's municipal community garden programme, launched in 1975 and the largest in Canada, rated among the best in North America. About 10,000 gardeners grow food and flowers on 6,700 plots across 73 gardens.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com+1
CAToronto, Canada
A community food centre in Toronto's west end, founded in 1982, running a food bank plus four community gardens and two farmers' markets. Its Green Barn is an urban-agriculture hub with a greenhouse and compost demonstration centre.
thestop.org+1
CAHalifax, Canada
A community garden and productive green space that began in 2012 as interim use of downtown Halifax hospital land. With around 240 plots, it is a place where residents grow food and connect.
commonrootsurbanfarm.ca+1
CAWinnipeg, Canada
A non-profit neighbourhood association in Winnipeg's inner-city West End that has created nine community gardens and a community greenhouse since its founding. It works on food security in a multicultural, low-income area.
spenceneighbourhood.org+1
ZACape Town, South Africa
A non-profit urban farm started in 2012 on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town. It regenerated a historic farm site into an organic farm and community hub celebrating local food, culture and community.
ozcf.co.za+1
ZACape Town, South Africa
A community-supported agriculture vegetable-box scheme launched in 2008 by Abalimi Bezekhaya, an NGO based in Cape Town's townships. It relaunched in September 2022 after a three-year break.
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ZAJohannesburg, South Africa
A rooftop farm started in 2019 in Braamfontein, central Johannesburg. It turned an unused rooftop into a green oasis and has established more than 15 food gardens across the inner city.
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ZASoweto, South Africa
A food garden started around 2021 by youth in Orlando West, Soweto. They transformed a dumping site into a plot growing cabbage and spinach to support the area's elderly residents.
foodformzansi.co.za+1
SNDakar, Senegal
An urban micro-gardening programme begun in 1999 by FAO and the City of Dakar. It fights food insecurity through soil-less cultivation in small spaces and from 2004 was extended to other cities in Senegal and Africa.
fao.org+1
UGKampala, Uganda
An urban farming programme run by Kampala Capital City Authority, anchored by the roughly 30-acre Kyanja Agricultural Resource Centre in Kawempe division, supporting food security and incomes for vulnerable residents.
kcca.go.ug+1
LSMaseru, Lesotho
A household compost-integrated raised-bed garden developed in drought- and erosion-prone Lesotho by the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE), based on a design CARE used in Zimbabwe, and spread widely across southern Africa.
tandfonline.com+1
GHAccra, Ghana
Widespread urban and peri-urban vegetable farming in Ghana's capital, Accra. Farmers within the city produce about 90% of the vegetables consumed there, using vacant land and water-channel margins to feed the city.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com+1
ETAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
A 15-month urban agriculture pilot run in 2022 by Farm Africa with Ethiopia's Ministry of Planning and Development, aiming to improve the incomes, nutrition and food security of 100 low-income households in Addis Ababa.
farmafrica.org+2
RWKigali, Rwanda
Urban farming spreading across Rwanda's land-scarce capital, Kigali. Residents boost food security through community gardens, kitchen gardens and marshland cultivation, and crops have been incorporated into the city's master plan.
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INBengaluru, India
A Bengaluru organic terrace-gardening movement begun in 2011 that runs recurring events to spread rooftop food growing among urban dwellers. It brings seeds, saplings, compost, tools and know-how together in one place with demonstrations and consultations.
gardencityfarmers.org+2
INMumbai, India
A Mumbai city-farming movement that opened a community farm on space offered by the director of Maharashtra Nature Park. Aiming for a community farm in every suburb, it spreads organic growing through terrace farms and school programmes.
cityfarmer.info+2
INChennai, India
A Chennai rooftop-gardening initiative launched in 2014 whose founder grows 500+ plants on her own roof and has helped 1,500+ people start their own rooftop gardens. It teaches citizens organic growing through consultations, workshops and internships.
thebetterindia.com+2
INDelhi, India
A Delhi-based eco-initiative teaching urban dwellers organic growing that has set up 500+ kitchen gardens since 2015. Its 'Farmlets' programme lets citizens rent plots to grow their own food, broadening urban-farming participation.
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INHyderabad, India
A Hyderabad urban-farming scheme run by the Telangana Department of Horticulture that gives citizens subsidised kits to grow vegetables on their terraces. Kits include soil, manure and grow beds to help households build nutrition gardens.
horticulture.tg.nic.in+1
INPune, India
A Pune community-farming group formed in 2019 that creates space for people without land to grow organically together. Its ~800 members share plots and knowledge and turn household kitchen waste into compost.
india.mongabay.com+1
INKolkata, India
The world's largest sewage-fed wetland and a Ramsar site where Kolkata's peri-urban community produces food and treats sewage through collective practices. Spanning ~12,500 hectares, it performs the threefold functions of food production, sewage treatment and drainage.
indiawaterportal.org+2
INKochi, India
An urban homestead-farming initiative in the Kochi Corporation area in which households grow organic vegetables on terraces toward self-sufficiency. It uses grow bags and vermicompost to recycle household waste efficiently into cultivation.
cityfarmer.info+1
IDJakarta, Indonesia
Originated as 'Jakarta Berkebun' from an October 2010 Twitter call by architect Ridwan Kamil and collaborators. The first planting on 20 February 2011 drew about 150 people, and the movement spread to 14 cities within six months, becoming a national urban-farming community network.
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IDBandung, Indonesia
Launched by Bandung in 2020, 'Buruan SAE' (Sundanese for 'good yard') is an integrated urban-farming programme combining vegetables, livestock, fishery, medicinal plants and organic-waste composting. By 2022 it had grown to 335 groups across 151 villages.
buruansae.bandung.go.id+1
IDYogyakarta, Indonesia
In the dense Bausasran neighbourhood ~500 m from Yogyakarta's Malioboro centre, urban farming grew out of the 2005 Proklim (climate village) programme. Using tiny plots and alleyways, residents grow diverse vegetables (cauliflower, lettuce, chili, eggplant, etc.) organically.
kesra.jogjakota.go.id+1
IDSurabaya, Indonesia
A city-driven urban-farming programme. Through frameworks such as 'KASUR BOYO' (Kampung Sayur Suroboyo), the DKPP supports residents across kampungs in producing vegetables, fruit, fish and livestock on limited urban space for food security, greening and organic-waste management.
dkpp.surabaya.go.id+1
IDJakarta, Indonesia
The 'Gang Hijau' (Green Alley) movement greens and cultivates the narrow alleys of Jakarta's dense neighbourhoods. In areas like RW 16 Tomang, residents built nutrition gardens and a 'Hijau Lestari' sustainable-food zone. The programme grew from ~150 alleys to nearly 600 city-wide, with about 200 in North Jakarta.
barat.jakarta.go.id+1
IDJakarta, Indonesia
Built on the regenerated former red-light district of Kalijodo, this Child-Friendly Integrated Public Space (RPTRA) hosts an urban-farming garden where children learn cultivation and conservation, serving as a space for resident food security and land-use education. Other RPTRA such as Taman Anggrek run similar urban farming.
barat.jakarta.go.id+1
IDMalang, Indonesia
Launched in February 2012 by RW 23 leader Bambang Irianto in Malang's Purwantoro area, 'Glintung Go Green (3G)' is a resident movement that transformed a flood-prone, crime- and sanitation-challenged kampung through alley-wall gardens, vertical farming and water-infiltration wells, achieving food security and environmental improvement.
mongabay.co.id+1
IDMakassar, Indonesia
Launched in 2014 by Makassar mayor Danny Pomanto, the 'Lorong Garden (Longgar)' flagship programme had residents—especially women—use the city's narrow alleys (described as the cells of the city) to grow ornamental and food plants, transforming them into clean, green spaces. It later evolved into 'Lorong Wisata'.
makassar.terkini.id+1
JPOsaka, Japan
The second Kitakagaya Minna no Uen site (2013), turning a former bathhouse and cultural housing of about 500 sqm into a larger community farm with ~33 plots and a kitchen studio.
minnanouen.jp+3
JPNeyagawa, Osaka, Japan
A roughly 300 sqm community farm on a former residence in Neyagawa, Osaka, with 30 individual 6 sqm plots and a kitchen salon in a renovated old house.
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JPKadoma, Osaka, Japan
A small community farm in a residential area facing Kadoma Shrine in Kadoma, Osaka, with toilets, a tool shed, and a shared herb garden free to harvest.
minnanouen.jp+1
JPKobe, Hyogo, Japan
A social-experiment site (opened 2022) on about 1,540 sqm of idle UR land in Minatogawa, Hyogo-ku, Kobe, regenerated as a rental farm plus open park space, with about one third as farm and the rest as park.
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JPKobe, Hyogo, Japan
A community farm in Zenshoji-cho, Suma-ku, Kobe, prepared to open in April 2025. It makes use of its natural setting between a hillside and the Zenshoji River, built DIY with local residents.
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JPOsaka, Japan
A Minna no Uen farm opened in July 2026 on a roughly 3,000 sqm former housing-complex site along the Yamato River in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. Designed for beginners with paved paths so people can grow without stepping into the soil, limited to organic pesticide-free cultivation, and combining a community farm with a 'HIROBA' community space and an event area.
minnanouen.jp+1
JPToyonaka, Osaka, Japan
A Minna no Uen rental farm on vacant land in a quiet residential area of old townhouses in Shonai-sakaemachi, Toyonaka, Osaka. Known for its soft soil built up over half a year, plots start at 2 sqm and the site provides tools, rest facilities, water and parking.
minnanouen.jp+1
JPKobe, Hyogo, Japan
A co-creation farm on leased Kobe city land with a view of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Ougiden, Tarumi-ku, Kobe. Themed on 'play', it runs on three pillars—an organic rental farm, hands-on permaculture workshops, and a shared farming place—emphasizing organic-matter cycling and composting, jointly operated by Minna no Uen, Sorabatake and Hoshi no Aima.
minnanouen.jp+1
JPOsaka, Japan
A community farm in a residential neighborhood of Uesumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, within walking distance of Sumiyoshi Taisha. It features a renovated row house, a well, and raised large-frame plots for comfortable cultivation.
minnanouen.jp+1
JPTsurumi, Osaka, Japan
An SDGs natural farm started in Osaka in 2021 that bridges 'awai' (the in-between) of farming and welfare. It partners with children's cafeterias in Tsurumi Ward and Moriguchi, donating its harvest to them, and links children's food education with the social participation of people facing employment barriers.
awai-farm.com+2
JPOsaka, Japan
An approximately 153-square-meter urban community garden opened beside Kuho Park in Osaka's Semba district in March 2025. Its name draws on 'coton' (cotton) and 'co + on', evoking Semba's textile-industry heritage and a wish for soft, cotton-like human connections.
coton-farm.com+2
JPKobe, Japan
A community garden that revived a vacant lot along the passageway of Kobe's roughly century-old Nada Central Market using handmade planters and lighting, turning land left derelict for over 20 years into organic rental plots and a lively market space.
ichiba-kobe.gr.jp+3
JPKobe, Japan
A Tanemaki LAB venture, centered on Kobe, that multiplies urban gardens on rooftops, idle land and in parks. With small empty-handed gardens and dispatched farmers, it spreads greening, community exchange and the joy of urban farming, and has expanded into local distribution such as the KOBE Veggie Bus.
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JPKobe, Japan
A park-based community garden opened in April 2021 in a corner of Hirano Outlook Park in Kobe's Hyogo Ward. Growing citrus such as yuzu, figs and plums, its community plaza, garden and membership learning plaza create a place to engage with farming in the city.
eatlocalkobe.org+3
JPKobe, Japan
A membership rental garden attached to Noevir Stadium Kobe in Misaki Park. By embedding a growing space within an urban sports venue, it offers an example of urban farming where residents enjoy growing vegetables right beside the stadium.
noevir-stadium.jp+2
JPKobe, Japan
A community garden at Zaimokucho Plaza along Kobe's Hyogo Canal. Using planters made from reused maritime wooden pallets, it grows strawberries, over ten kinds of herbs, figs, citrus, hops and radishes, creating a place for community farming and exchange on the canal bank.
city.kobe.lg.jp+3
JPKadoma, Japan
One of Kansai's largest rooftop farms, opened in 2011 on the roof of the Bears commercial building in Kadoma, Osaka. With about 900 square meters and 100 plots themed on food education, it turned an urban rooftop into a place for community farming and exchange.
aozoranouen.com+1
JPOsaka, Japan
An empty-handed rooftop rental garden offered on near-station rooftops in central Osaka. Run by Toho Leo, it provides a place where even beginners can casually enjoy growing vegetables and building community in the city.
machinaka-saien.jp+4
TWTaipei, Taiwan
Taipei's citywide urban-farming policy launched in 2015 under Mayor Ko Wen-je. Through four garden types-community, school, rooftop and allotment-it converts scattered vacant spaces across the city into edible green infrastructure.
doed.gov.taipei+2
TWTaipei, Taiwan
A flagship neighborhood-level case of the Garden City program, where Jin'an Li residents turned neglected spaces into three green sites-a rooftop vegetable garden, a rainwater farm and a corner herb garden-while weaving in local history and creative placemaking.
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TWTaipei, Taiwan
In Nangang's Jiuzhuang, residents transformed a neglected, dumping-prone plaza into a community garden. It is the subject of an academic case study (Sustainability journal) on how community gardens support urban health and well-being.
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TWNew Taipei, Taiwan
Launched in 2015 as Taiwan's first 'participatory rooftop farm' scheme, where community residents jointly maintain green roofs, strengthening local cohesion while practicing low-carbon living. The Dongying Li activity center in Yingge District is a flagship site.
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TWNew Taipei, Taiwan
New Taipei's citizen farms give urban dwellers a place to experience farming. Set up by subsidising farmers' associations in five districts-Yingge, Shulin, Xindian, Tucheng and Tamsui-they have been well received.
agriculture.ntpc.gov.tw+1
TWKaohsiung, Taiwan
Responding to an ageing society, the city's Social Affairs Bureau established this senior citizen farm in the Xincaoya settlement. Elders grow vegetables organically, reconnecting with nature to maintain body and mind and deepen social interaction-a welfare-oriented urban farm.
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TWTaichung, Taiwan
A food-and-farming education program in which space-constrained urban schools in Taichung creatively set up campus gardens on rooftops, concrete planters and movable beds to teach children about farming and food, built on the 'Taichung School Food-and-Farming Education Comprehensive Plan (2017-2019)'.
taichung.gov.tw+1
TWTainan, Taiwan
A food-and-farming education effort started by returning youth in Houbi, Tainan. They grow diverse rice and vegetables in an experimental field as teaching material and founded the Taiwan Pu-yu Cultural and Educational Development Association to support young people in toxin-free farming.
sstainan.com
KRSeoul, South Korea
A citizen-participatory urban farm on Nodeul Island in the Han River. A formerly neglected artificial island was turned into a community garden for safe food and neighbourly exchange, becoming one of the symbolic sites of Seoul's urban agriculture.
news.seoul.go.kr+1
KRSeoul, South Korea
Opened in October 2013 as Korea's first urban-agriculture park. Developed by Gangdong-gu as the centre of its eco-friendly urban-agriculture policy, it combines resident allotments, food education, hands-on experience and native-seed conservation as a healing and community space.
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KRSeoul, South Korea
A city-wide network of resident-participatory box and community gardens on rooftops, leftover urban gaps and schools, expanded under Seoul's urban-agriculture policy launched in earnest in 2012. Supported by city and district subsidies, the number of gardens grew from about 100 to more than 1,600.
koreatimes.co.kr+1
KRIncheon, South Korea
Incheon's 'Eeum' (meaning 'connection') community urban farm, started in 2021 through participatory budgeting. Citizens and organisations grow crops together and run education and exchange activities, creating a public space for safe food and neighbourly ties.
news.ifm.kr+1
KRBusan, South Korea
Citizen-participatory urban-farming experiences within Busan Citizens Park, opened in 2014 on land returned from the former U.S. military base Camp Hialeah. An agriculture-themed forest and experience gardens host activities such as rice planting and harvesting.
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KRSuwon, South Korea
Tapdong Citizen Farm in Suwon, a citizen-participatory urban garden on land affiliated with Seoul National University's College of Agriculture. It offers organic allotment plots and seasonal flower fields as a place of healing and community for urban residents.
suwon.go.kr+1
KRDaegu, South Korea
Daegu's urban-agriculture support program centred on school gardens. The city subsidises school gardens at 45 schools plus box, rooftop and balcony gardens and senior healing gardens, advancing food education and cross-generational citizen participation.
cityfarm.daegu.go.kr+1
MYKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
An approximately 8-acre urban farm regenerating neglected land in central Kuala Lumpur. Addressing the climate crisis, lack of open space and food insecurity, its harvest is donated to soup kitchens and the underprivileged. In 2022 DBKL recognised it as a model community garden under LA21KL.
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MYKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A resident-led community garden in Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur. A former DBKL officer living locally connected community gardens to LA21, and it is featured as one of 21+ community gardens flourishing across the Klang Valley.
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PHQuezon City, Philippines
Launched in 2010 by then–Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte to mitigate hunger, it promotes methods suited to limited city space such as vertical and container gardening and chemical-free organic growing. By 2025 over 1,400 urban farms were reported across the city.
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PHMetro Manila, Philippines
A network of urban gardeners envisioning Metro Manila as 'one big community garden.' It comprises 20+ gardens in subdivisions, barangays, schools, informal settlements and condominiums, helping residents grow food and gain knowledge.
mb.com.ph+1
THBangkok, Thailand
A citizen urban-agriculture network overseeing 450+ community gardens centred on Bangkok. During COVID-19 it converted wasteland into food sources, launching 210 new gardens starting with 30 high-risk communities across six provinces.
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THPathum Thani, Thailand
A rooftop farm inspired by traditional rice terraces that produces about 20 tons of organic food a year, equivalent to some 80,000 campus meals. Its 12 sloped areas act as outdoor classrooms, making it a learning hub where 40,000 students and nearby residents can study sustainable agriculture.
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THChiang Mai, Thailand
During COVID-19, a 'Promoter' group led by local architecture firm Jaibaan Studio worked with residents and civic groups to turn state-owned idle land into an inclusive public space and food-producing site, aiming to improve food security, nutrition and self-sufficiency for vulnerable residents.
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VNDa Nang, Vietnam
A spreading rooftop-garden trend in Da Nang where residents grow tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce and herbs on roughly 100 sqm rooftops to obtain clean, safe homegrown vegetables while creating greenery and a place for physical and mental healing, connected to the city's safe-food efforts.
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VNHo Chi Minh City (Thu Duc), Vietnam
A case of school and community gardens with nutrition education in Vietnam's Tam Phu and Dai Hung areas, responding to preschool malnutrition rates of 11.1% and 19.8%. Nutrient-dense, climate-suited plants are grown and added to children's meals such as soups and rice porridge.
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JPAsahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Asahikawa City's citizen farm is a shared-plot community garden where, under the guidance of the natural-cultivation farm Minamina Farm, all participants work one field together. It lets residents learn pesticide- and chemical-fertilizer-free growing while mixing with one another.
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JPSapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Furusato Farm in Sapporo's Minami Ward is an agricultural company that reclaimed long-abandoned farmland to grow vegetables on about 5 hectares. It runs food-education programs that invite local children to experience everything from growing to cooking and eating.
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JPHachinohe, Aomori, Japan
Hachinohe Citizen Farm is a publicly run allotment opened inside the city's Agricultural Management Promotion Center to deepen residents' understanding of farming through family experiences. It offers about 240 plots of 33 square meters, allocated by annual lottery.
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JPSendai, Miyagi, Japan
The Sendai Furusato-no-Mori project is a collaborative effort to rebuild eastern coastal Sendai's seaside forest, lost to the tsunami, with citizens' own hands. After planting that began in 2011 it has raised some 27,000 seedlings, shifting since 2021 to tree-nurturing and coastal nature learning.
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JPHigashinaruse, Akita, Japan
Furin Co., a senior-care provider in Higashinaruse, Akita, has since 2013 run an agriculture-welfare program in which day-service users join planting and harvesting on nearby paddies. Users averaging 88 take meaningful roles in the work, and the harvested rice is sent to supporters.
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JPYamagata, Yamagata, Japan
Yamagata City brings locally grown organic produce into school lunches and advances food education on organic farming and local consumption in its schools. In FY2023 it used organic potatoes in lunches at 35 elementary and 15 junior-high schools, aiming at sustainable agriculture.
city.yamagata-yamagata.lg.jp
JPIwaki, Fukushima, Japan
The Fukushima Organic Cotton Project grows native brown cotton organically on abandoned farmland in Iwaki, hit by post-nuclear-accident reputational harm, as a reconstruction effort. Over 5,000 volunteers and companies have taken part, aiming to give farmers new income and revive the area.
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JPHiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
A network of more than 100 public citizen vegetable gardens across Hiroshima offering beginner-friendly plots plus cultivation classes and harvest festivals. The Mihari garden includes 'food-and-farming plots' where children's groups grow sweet potatoes, serving as a hands-on food-education setting.
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JPOkayama, Okayama, Japan
An Okayama City citizen farm of about 7 hectares and 484 plots that serves as a place to connect with the soil and deepen understanding of farming and food. Year-round events such as the open-air market, farming experiences and a harvest festival make it a community hub linking users and locals.
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JPSanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
Sanyo-Onoda City's 'Fureai' citizen farm is a place where residents connect with nature and deepen their understanding of farming through growing vegetables and flowers. Its stated aims include purpose for older residents and experiential learning for children, enriching community life.
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JPYamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan
Yamaguchi Prefecture promotes agriculture-welfare collaboration, piloting contracted farm work in the model areas of Ube, Yamaguchi, Nagato and Shunan. By having disability-employment facilities take part in farming, it seeks both improved wages and purpose for participants and relief from local labor shortages and abandoned-farmland problems.
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JPMatsue, Shimane, Japan
A project in Matsue's Oba/Sorayama district where the NPO Machizukuri Network Shimane and Shimane Prefecture jointly regenerate degraded farmland. Residents grow 'edible' fruiting trees and vegetables together, cutting CO2 and renewing local interest in farming and food while the restored land is used as citizen farms.
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JPKamiyama, Tokushima, Japan
A social enterprise in Kamiyama, Tokushima built on 'grow local, eat local,' passing the town's farming and food culture to the next generation. Through its canteen, bakery, processing and food education it creates a small 'grow–make–eat–connect' cycle that supports jobs, in-migration and community vitality.
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JPTakamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
A citizen garden inside the 5-hectare 'Konan Agream' farming-exchange facility near Takamatsu Airport, where residents rent about 50 m2 for roughly 10,000 yen a year. Through harvest and cooking experiences it lets people touch rural life and acts as a food-education and community hub.
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JPKochi, Kochi, Japan
A citizen farm opened by Kochi City in the Kagami and Tosayama areas where residents grow vegetables and flowers amid the nature of the Kagami River headwaters. It offers downtown residents a place to connect with mountainous-area farming and nature, supporting exchange and food education.
city.kochi.kochi.jp
JPMatsuyama, Ehime, Japan
Matsuyama's children's cafeterias and their 'Matsukone' network create safe places and community interaction for children through free or low-cost meals. Within MAFF's framework they advance food education tied to the community and to farming and harvest experiences.
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JPKitanakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan
An organic community garden run by Sunshine Farm in Kitanakagusuku, reviving the traditional Okinawan home plot 'atai-guwa' as an edible garden. Across fields, a paddy and a plaza, residents of all ages grow vegetables, rice and herbs and share the harvest.
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JPNaha, Okinawa, Japan
A downtown rooftop rental garden launched in 2023 on the 10th floor of Naha's Palette Kumoji complex, said to be the prefecture's first. Run by Kumoji Urban Development with MyFarm, residents rent plots monthly and garden in the city with free tools and recycled-material soil.
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JPOkinawa, Okinawa, Japan
A municipal citizens' farm in Okinawa City opened in 1994, offering about 1.9 ha and 102 plots to residents. Non-farmers grow vegetables and flowers there to deepen agricultural understanding, revitalise the community and nurture future growers.
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JPKumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
A Kumamoto City scheme designating qualifying citizen farms as 'Family Gardens,' places to enjoy soil and deepen appreciation of food and farming. Gardens are spread across the city's five wards, and residents without farmland can join on a rolling basis.
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JPKagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan
An about-30-ha urban agriculture centre opened by Kagoshima City in 1997, divided into training, citizens'-farm and interaction zones. Residents who rent plots in the citizens'-farm zone deepen agricultural understanding, health and exchange through workshops and fruit-harvest experiences.
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JPKagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan
A 413,000-square-metre municipal agri-park in Kiire, Kagoshima. With experience plots, a stay-type citizens' farm and an environmental-learning building, this free-admission facility lets residents enjoy farming, food and learning about circular agriculture.
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JPIsahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
An agriculture-welfare initiative by the social-welfare corporation Minamitaka Airinkai, based in Isahaya, Nagasaki, linking with farming on the Shimabara Peninsula. People with disabilities help with planting, harvesting and shipping, gaining confidence and purpose while supporting agriculture facing labour shortages.
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JPNagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan
A group of municipal citizens' farms run by Nagasaki City to reuse abandoned farmland and deepen urban residents' understanding of agriculture. At the Hirayama, Mie and Takashima farms and Kinkai-Akamizu Fureai Farm, residents experience planting and harvesting, opened since fiscal 2000 under a family-garden method.
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JPBeppu, Oita, Japan
A citizens' farm run by Beppu City where residents grow vegetables and flowers in the countryside overlooking Mt. Yufu. It recruits users as a place to deepen understanding of agriculture through farm work in nature and interaction with local residents not available downtown.
city.beppu.oita.jp
JPMiyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Tsukura Citizens' Farm, run by Miyazaki City, rents affordable plots of about 15 square metres to residents with on-site cultivation support. Beginners and families can enjoy growing vegetables and harvesting, tied to the city's food-education and local-production efforts.
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JPSaga, Saga, Japan
An initiative by Saga City introducing citizens' farms (fureai farms) opened by local farmers and individuals. At gardens such as Muraoka Honobono Farm and Tsunome Farm, residents grow vegetables to engage with nature and agriculture, deepening understanding and contact with nature.
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JPToyama, Toyama, Japan
A program Toyama City launched in 2013 to create community gardens in a corner of neighborhood parks and revitalize local community through vegetable harvesting. It now runs at seven sites, operated by resident park-care associations.
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JPToyama, Toyama, Japan
An urban farm running beekeeping and growing of sweet potatoes and edamame on the Toyama Civic Plaza rooftop since 2018. It serves as a food-education and awareness space focused on pollinators and the urban environment.
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JPKanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
An NPO started by resident volunteers in Kanazawa's Shijima district that regenerates abandoned farmland and bamboo groves, opening 'Minna no Hatake' in March 2017. It fosters cross-generational exchange, a morning market, and bamboo-resource recycling.
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JPKanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Kanazawa City's food-waste recycling loop that collects citizen-made compost at neighborhood points and uses it at community farms. It advances food-loss reduction and organic-resource circulation through citizen participation.
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JPNiigata, Niigata, Japan
Japan's first public educational farm, developed by Niigata City (opened 2014). Citizens and families experience growing, harvesting, livestock, and rice-flour pizza making to learn about food and farming.
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JPYokkaichi, Mie, Japan
A municipal citizens' garden run by the Yokkaichi Agricultural Center, renting 15 sqm plots to residents. It also offers parent-child farming, agri-welfare, and food education with the school-lunch center.
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JPHokuto, Yamanashi, Japan
An NPO founded in 2021 and based in Hokuto, Yamanashi, working on agriculture, welfare, and education. It advances agri-welfare linking employment for welfare-service users with shipping support for small farms.
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JPNara, Nara, Japan
Municipal rental farms in Nara's eastern Sakahara and Tawara districts where residents grow vegetables with support from local farming cooperatives. They deepen interest in farming and foster exchange between users and local farmers.
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JPMoriyama, Shiga, Japan
'Oishii Niwa,' run in Moriyama by NPO Aoi Biwako (focused on Lake Biwa conservation). Through home gardening, composting, and parent-child SDGs learning, citizens engage with food-farming and organic-resource cycling.
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JPGifu, Gifu, Japan
Gifu City's elderly health gardens, run across the city for older residents' wellbeing and purpose, plus JA Gifu's Health Fureai Farm. Residents aged 60+ enjoy growing vegetables on rented plots.
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JPFukui, Fukui, Japan
Ichijodani Asakura Mizunoeki, opened by Fukui City as a farming-experience facility in 2010. Through its experience farm and biotope, families and schoolchildren learn about food and farming via rice planting, vegetable growing, and nature observation.
city.fukui.lg.jp+1
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
An urban-farming project in Amsterdam-Noord. Built around an organic self-harvest garden, it links farming, food, welfare and enterprise, with local residents involved in running it.
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ESBarcelona, Spain
Barcelona's network of urban allotments, begun in 1997 with the recovery of the Can Mestres plots. Centred on participation by older people and vulnerable groups, it turns public land into new green and social space.
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DKCopenhagen, Denmark
An organic farm on a rooftop above the concrete city. Begun in 2014, it pairs a CSA with citizen participation to shorten the distance between city and countryside.
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ITRome, Italy
A pioneering platform that maps and links Rome's shared community gardens; since its launch, the number of such gardens in the city has grown from 40 to more than 200.
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AUSydney, Australia
A case where citizens turned an inner-city disused lot into a place for food and learning, built on three pillars — local food, education and community — aiming to make urban farming a normal part of city life.
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NZAuckland, New Zealand
An organic city farm on council land just a few kilometres from downtown, linking welfare, education and organic cycling to give citizens hands-on contact with farming and food.
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SEMalmö, Sweden
A social urban farm in Malmö's Rosengård district that uses food and farming for ecological, economic and social sustainability, linking the inclusion of immigrants with the training of a new generation of urban farmers.
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PLWarsaw, Poland
A 3.6-hectare cooperative urban farm in Warsaw's Siekierki district, about 25 minutes from downtown. On former allotment land cleared for a bridge project and long left idle, residents formed a cooperative and turned it into an edible landscape.
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ESMadrid, Spain
A citizen network linking community urban gardens across Madrid. Founded in 2011 to make urban agriculture more visible and to provide mutual aid, it has helped drive municipal recognition of community gardens.
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BEWatermael-Boitsfort, Brussels, Belgium
An urban, participatory and ecologically-minded farm in Brussels' Watermael-Boitsfort district, where citizens and professionals farm together, using food to build local connection and protect the environment.
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CHZürich, Switzerland
A citizen-run neighbourhood farm — the last in central Zurich — operated collectively by some 600 member households, combining growing, animal husbandry, nature conservation, youth and social work to link farming and city life.
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PTLisbon, Portugal
Lisbon's first municipal horticultural park, opened by the city in the Benfica district in 2011, where residents lease plots through public competition to grow organically — the model for the city's wider network of municipal allotment parks.
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GRThessaloniki, Greece
A self-managed peri-urban cultivation project begun by citizens reclaiming an abandoned former military camp in post-crisis Thessaloniki. Regarded as one of Greece's most active citizen-led urban-farming initiatives, it demonstrates community agency against the privatisation of land.
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JPTokyo, Japan
A long-running movement reviving Tokyo's near-lost heirloom 'Edo-Tokyo vegetables' in city schools, a horticultural high school and allotments. Over nearly 30 years more than 50 varieties have been registered, linking heritage food culture and farming to the next generation via school lunches and food education.
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JPTokyo (Edogawa), Japan
In Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, said to be the birthplace of komatsuna greens, urban farmers grow the heritage crop on plots dotted through residential neighborhoods and deliver directly to 92 schools, passing local food culture and urban agriculture to children via synchronized school lunches and harvest events.
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JPKanazawa, Japan
Kanazawa's 15 certified 'Kaga vegetables' heirlooms are grown, harvested and cooked by schoolchildren in integrated-study programs and featured in food-education booklets and lunches, transmitting the city's heritage food culture and history to the next generation.
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JPOsaka, Japan
Osaka certifies 'Naniwa traditional vegetables'—heirlooms nearly lost to urbanization—and uses them in school gardens and lunches as 'living teaching material,' letting pupils taste and learn the food culture and farming nurtured by Osaka's historic 'kitchen of the nation.'
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USMinneapolis, United States
A Native-led nonprofit founded in 1998 with an urban hub in Minneapolis, holding 200+ Indigenous seed varieties including Cherokee corn carried on the Trail of Tears. It reconnects urban Native youth with traditional crops, cooking and culture to restore food, health and sovereignty.
dreamofwildhealth.org+1
USAlbany, United States
An Afro-Indigenous community farm that gives free home gardens to city residents in the Albany area and saves and shares seeds of African, Indigenous and Palestinian heritage crops, reclaiming ancestral farming and food culture to end food apartheid.
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USDetroit, United States
Opened in 2008 by the Black-led grassroots network DBCFSN (founded 2006), this ~7-acre Detroit urban farm grows 30+ crops rooted in African-American food culture—collard greens, okra, hot peppers—to strengthen food security and sovereignty for Detroit's Black community.
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NZRotorua, New Zealand
A Rotorua food-growing charity formed in 2017 that grows, harvests and stores kūmara—the key Māori heritage crop—in community gardens following the Māori lunar calendar, teaching cultivation knowledge and food culture (oral lore, karakia, waiata) to schools and the community and restoring Indigenous food sovereignty.
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KENairobi, Kenya
City Shamba is an NGO promoting urban agriculture and food security in Nairobi's informal settlements including Kibera. Recognized in 2025 for transformative impact on farming groups. Plans to establish 3 additional resource centers and mega aeroponic/aquaponic farms in Nairobi over the next 5 years.
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CUHavana, Cuba
Popular gardens movement in Havana starting in 1991. Community groups and individuals cultivate state-owned land. Emerged as a grassroots food security response when Soviet Union collapse in 1989 led to oil shortage and economic crisis. Government provides support via composting facilities, veterinary clinics, and subsidized agricultural supplies. About 300 community organopónicos use 8% of Havana's land (35,000 acres), producing organic food that supplies each citizen with ~280g of fruits and vegetables daily.
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SGSingapore, Singapore
SECUF in Singapore: gardening hubs bringing communities together through edibles gardening and curated horticulture programs. The SECUF Grant encourages social enterprises to establish and operate Community Urban Farms, conducting programs for seniors, persons with disabilities, and low-income groups. Singapore has 1,500+ community gardens and 2,500+ allotment plots across 29 parks. Next allotment garden application window in Q4 2026.
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NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam in 2025 is promoting policies to include rooftop farms in new construction through grants, building code modifications, and LEED incentives. Rooftop yields range from 2-3 kg/m² depending on crop; some cases achieve 6,310 kg annually from 150m² two-layer system. Target: supply 25% of city's food demand locally by 2030 and increase resident awareness/participation to 20% by 2026.
environmentalconsortium.org+1
ATVienna, Austria
A community farm in Vienna's Favoriten district demonstrating urban agriculture integration into urban development with citizen participation.
citychangers.org+1
EGCairo, Egypt
A Cairo-based social startup using rooftops to address food security and build community resilience through urban agriculture.
theurbanactivist.com
TRIstanbul, Turkey
A waterfront rooftop herb garden across four buildings in partnership with local urban farming collective Komsukoy, integrating sustainability into luxury hospitality.
forbes.com
MXMexico City, Mexico
Mexico City community project integrating vegetable gardens, chicken coops, trout farm, and compost program with emphasis on youth environmental education and engagement.
foodtank.com+1
HKKowloon, Hong Kong
Asia's largest publicly accessible rooftop farm (1,200 sqm) at Metroplaza in Kowloon, flagship of Rooftop Republic's 50+ urban farm network across Hong Kong.
rooftoprepublic.com+1
PSAl Am'ari, Palestine
50 green rooftop gardens in Al Am'ari refugee camp led by 67 young women, addressing climate change adaptation and food security in vulnerable communities.
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USNew York, United States
NYC's largest rooftop farm spanning 5.6 acres across three locations (Astoria, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Sunset Park). Produces 80,000+ lbs of organic vegetables annually and manages 40+ honey bee hives. Operates CSA, farmers markets, restaurant supply, and wedding/event venue. Equitable Distribution Program ensures ~60% of yield reaches low-income New Yorkers at no or reduced cost.
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USNewark, United States
2015 vertical farm conversion of 70,000 sq ft warehouse (formerly steel-supply company). Produces 2 million lbs microgreens annually in 36-foot tall stacked beds under LED lights. Uses 95% less water and 50% less fertilizer than traditional farming. Created 100+ jobs for Newark residents. Delivers within hours to Manhattan markets and Singapore Airlines. Functions as R&D facility for next-generation crops.
aerofarms.com+3
USDetroit, United States
A $240,000 grant program launched by Eastern Market Partnership and City of Detroit Office of Sustainability in February 2026. Prioritizes Black- and Indigenous-led farms, youth-led projects, and initiatives in historically disinvested neighborhoods. Recipients (including Grow Moore Produce, Brightmoor Artisans Collectives, Chang Hill Tribe, and Leilu Gardens) advance food access, climate education, and sustainable agricultural practices through December 2026.
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DEBerlin, Germany
One of Germany's largest community gardens, created on Berlin's iconic former airport field, Tempelhofer Feld. Cultivating public open space with movable raised beds, it embodies the idea of the urban commons (Allmende) and doubles as a knowledge and networking hub for urban gardening.
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DEBerlin, Germany
A flagship community garden in Berlin's Wedding district. Forced to leave its original site to make way for a football education centre, it relocated after a citizens' campaign to a permanent site on Gartenstraße in late 2021. Combining gardening, a café and education programmes, it is a hub for urban greenery and social inclusion.
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DEBerlin (nationwide), Germany
A German education program built on the idea that the field is the best classroom, fostering children's understanding of food and nature through school gardens. Its hands-on curriculum, cultivating a corner of the schoolyard or school grounds, builds appreciation of food, healthy eating and awareness of food waste. It has grown into the largest school-garden network in the German-speaking world.
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FRGennevilliers, France
The flagship example of the R-Urban strategy, turning vacant suburban land near Paris into citizen-run agro-cultural hubs. AgroCité, combining urban agriculture, recycling and low-energy building, was born in Colombes, dismantled in 2017 to make way for a car park, and rebuilt in Gennevilliers after a residents' campaign. It is internationally known as a model of the urban commons.
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ITFlorence, Italy
Located on Borgo Pinti in Florence's historic centre, said to be the only urban garden inside the UNESCO World Heritage zone. It regenerated a disused athletics track, practising sustainable growing with recycled materials and water-saving irrigation alongside food and environmental education. It is known for creating community space and greenery in the heart of a tourist city.
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ITTurin, Italy
A 150 m² community roof garden created on a former factory building in Turin, directly linked to the restaurant below. As the first 'ortoalto' (elevated garden), it demonstrates a model for regenerating unused urban rooftops as places of food production, employment and neighbourhood exchange, and is referenced in Italy and abroad as an approach to rooftop-led urban regeneration.
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DKCopenhagen, Denmark
A vacant plot in Copenhagen's former industrial district of Refshaleøen transformed into one of Scandinavia's largest urban farms. Integrating fields, bees and chickens with a restaurant, it models regenerative agriculture and food experiences in the city, carrying forward the ØsterGro legacy of connecting people and nature through farming and food.
oenshave.dk+2
NOOslo, Norway
A permanent commons of art and urban agriculture created on reclaimed land above a highway tunnel in central Oslo. Conceived by the artist group Futurefarmers' Flatbread Society, it weaves food culture and land stories around a boat-shaped public bakehouse (2016) and an ancient-grain field, and has become Norway's flagship urban-farming site.
loseter.no+2
FIHelsinki, Finland
A symbolic hub of Finnish urban agriculture, regenerating a historic railway turntable in Pasila, central Helsinki. It turned a leftover piece of rail infrastructure into a greenhouse, garden and event space—a laboratory for sustainable food production, peer learning and urban culture.
kaantopoyta.fi+2
CZPrague, Czechia
The first community garden in Prague and the pioneer of the Czech urban-gardening movement. Combining small bag/bed plots with a café, it became popular as a place to 'grow relationships along with vegetables' and triggered the spread of community gardens to other districts of the city.
sharingandcaring.eu+2
IEDublin, Ireland
A collective garden in inner-city Dublin bearing the name of the old 'Mud Island' area mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses. Residents transformed a derelict site that had cost the city thousands to clear each year into a green community hub, notable for fully collective cultivation with shared harvests. It has won multiple awards as a leading Dublin community garden.
mudisland.ie+1
HUBudapest, Hungary
A pioneering example of interim use of vacant infill plots in central Budapest. Despite having to relocate four times as development advanced, the garden has kept going and now refreshes the 8th district from its current site on Magdolna Street. It is emblematic of Hungary's urban community-garden movement.
kozossegikertek.hu+2
MXMexico City, Mexico
A citizen-run urban garden in Mexico City's Roma district that turned an earthquake-scarred vacant lot into a laboratory for permaculture and the solidarity economy. Styling itself a 'biosocial lab', it works as a community centre spanning farming, environment, culture and health.
huertoromaverde.org+2
MXMexico City, Mexico
A 1,650 m² urban farm on an earthquake-cleared site in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district. Growing by agroecological principles, with an edible forest and seed bank at its heart, it delivers food education as a model of agrarian urbanism.
cultivaciudad.org+3
BRSão Paulo, Brazil
An experimental community garden created by citizens in Praça das Corujas in western São Paulo. A forerunner of a new movement in which a social-media-born citizen network cultivates public space, it inspired gardens across the city.
hortadascorujas.wordpress.com+1
PELima, Peru
In an arid peripheral district of Lima, older women turned wasteland into a 1,400 m² agroecological garden. A resident-led response to food insecurity and the climate crisis, it puts urban agriculture at the heart of neighbourhood food and social life.
es.wikipedia.org+2
NGAbuja, Nigeria
A pioneering venture in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, growing vegetables inside the city with vertical hydroponic farms built from shipping containers. Achieving high yields with little land and water, it has been showcased at home and abroad as a model for drawing urban youth into agriculture.
thenationonlineng.net+2
TZDar es Salaam, Tanzania
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, vegetable growing on open urban land is a visible part of the cityscape. Since the Sustainable Cities Programme of the 1990s, integrating agriculture into city planning has been debated, and the practice has drawn international research attention for both its insecure tenure and its importance to livelihoods.
researchgate.net+2
ZWHarare, Zimbabwe
A pioneering centre on the outskirts of Harare that has taught permaculture and organic farming for over three decades. Credited with influencing nearly every related project in Zimbabwe, from urban and peri-urban gardens to rural farms, it trains practitioners of climate-resilient agriculture around the capital.
fambidzanai.org.zw+2
MACasablanca, Morocco
A large research-action project asking whether urban agriculture can make growing megacities more climate-efficient. Set in Greater Casablanca, its model of multifunctional urban agriculture as an urban-planning tool was published as a book and has influenced planning approaches linking urban and rural spheres.
uac-m.freiraum.tu-berlin.de+2
AEDubai, United Arab Emirates
Urban farming embedded in a purpose-built sustainable community on the edge of desert-city Dubai. Combining biodome greenhouses with resident allotments, it supplies locally grown vegetables despite the hot arid climate while using farming to build community.
thenationalnews.com+2
TNTunis, Tunisia
In a dense, low-income district of Tunis, residents have reclaimed neglected land as a communal garden, gaining fresh vegetables, income and a step toward food sovereignty. It is watched as a new model of resident-led agroecology in North African cities.
hivos.org
KENairobi, ケニア
A community-driven garden-in-a-sack program initiated in response to post-election violence and food insecurity in 2008. Expanded across slum areas of Nairobi (Mathare, Kiambiu, Mukuru, Kibera) directly benefiting 22,000 households and over 110,000 people.
afas.africa
NGLagos, ナイジェリア
Self-help horticultural gardens managed by residents in the Eti-osa Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria, utilizing road set-backs to address limited land availability while greening the community.
doi.org
THBangkok, タイ
Part of a 2024 comparative study on sustainable urban farming management in Thailand and Indonesia, exploring optimization of agricultural practices for community application.
journal-iasssf.com
SGSingapore, シンガポール
Singapore's high-tech urban farming initiative as part of its national food security strategy, using advanced environmental control technologies to aim for 10% domestic vegetable production from vertical farms.
eastasiaforum.org
JPTokyo, 日本
Tokyo-based rooftop urban garden program utilizing multiple building rooftops to transform unused spaces into agricultural, educational, and community activity spaces.
sciencedirect.com
VNHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Circular agriculture community garden launched by Vietnam Food Bank Network in collaboration with youth and international agencies. Focuses on practicing circular agriculture, food waste reduction, and supporting disadvantaged groups.
vietnam.vn
PHQuezon City, Philippines
Women-led grassroots project in the urban poor community of Sitio San Roque in Quezon City. Has grown from a food source to a strategy for ensuring food security and defending land rights.
iied.org
NGLagos, Nigeria
Community-driven vertical garden intervention initiated in 2014 in Agege. Bottom-up approach to low-cost innovation with community members contributing expertise and decision-making.
una.city
PLWarsaw, Poland
Citywide program established in 2017 to support Warsaw inhabitants in setting up and managing community gardens. Offers access to knowledge, materials, capacity building, and networking.
interlace-hub.com
ROBucharest, Romania
Urban agriculture project established in 2020 focusing on community gardens, company gardens, and shared composting spaces. Raises awareness among citizens and local authorities about urban farming benefits.
romania-insider.com
JOAmman, Jordan
Community-based urban garden project led by UN-Habitat and funded by UNEP in Amman. Includes greenhouse and mushroom room for consistent yields. Local residents form management groups.
jordan.un.org
IDJakarta, Indonesia
Urban greening community gardens in Jakarta using tactical urbanism. 12 communities in South Kebayoran Lama implementing and operating urban farms. Seruni Indah Farmers Group supports over 3,500 residents.
mdpi.com
INDelhi, India
Delhi's urban agriculture provides 60% of city's meat demand, 25% of milk, and 15% of vegetable needs. Draft Citizen's Policy for Urban Agriculture submitted to government in September 2022. Recommends promoting residential and rooftop gardens and developing animal husbandry policies.
eco-business.com
MXMexico City, Mexico
Mexico City municipal government has issued grants to over 3,000 residents since 2007 to promote rooftop agriculture. Community projects like Miravalle provide environmental education and agriculture workshops.
foodtank.com
SGSingapore, Singapore
Launched in 2005 at Mayfair Park Estate, adapted from Canada's movement. Over 1,900 community garden sites across Singapore. Residents apply for plots awarded by ballot. Central to Singapore's '30 by 30' food security target.
neighbourhoodlife.com.sg
KRSeoul, South Korea
Urban agriculture policy initiated in 2012. Seoul boasts about 200 hectares of rooftop farmland. Creating 264 Seoul-type Urban Vegetable Gardens. Farm clinics held at 4,000 urban farm sites across 19 districts.
english.seoul.go.kr
USDenver, USA
Denver Urban Gardens operates a culturally-inclusive seed program that crowd-sources plant variety requests to create a catalog of hard-to-access seed varieties appropriate to the local climate.
dug.org
INChennai, India
Mobile vegetable gardens established in schools, childcare centers, and homeless shelters in Chennai. Addresses food insecurity and urban heat while providing gardening training and access to nutritious food.
earth5r.org
USMulti-city, USA
USDA-led national initiative launched in 2009; expanded nationwide in 2022. Increases fresh food access in underserved communities, supports wildlife habitats, and enhances urban green space.
guides.loc.gov
BDDhaka, Bangladesh
Citizens cultivate vegetables on rooftops across Dhaka, with women playing a leading role. Rooftop gardeners show 19% increased vegetable intake and 7% increased fruit intake. Rooftop agriculture reduces temperatures by 1.2–5.5%, provides carbon sequestration, and lessens ecological footprint.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com+1
GHKumasi, Ghana
In Kumasi, Ghana, urban and peri-urban agriculture is a key food source for residents, but expanding cities convert agricultural land to residential and commercial uses, threatening farming operations. Integrating urban agriculture into formal urban planning is critical.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
PLKraków, Poland
Poland's first parcel-based community garden pilot launched in Kraków in 2025. Citizens cultivate food on designated plots. Promotes ecological practices, community engagement, and social innovation, aligning with EU goals for sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient urban development.
interreg-central.eu
GRAthens, Greece
Started by Maroussi Municipality in 2012 in response to Greece's economic crisis. Municipal land transformed into community vegetable gardens with 40 plots of 25 square meters each for vulnerable groups including unemployed, low-earners, low-pensioners, and single parents. Includes soil enrichment and water supply infrastructure. A pioneering model for community food security in post-crisis Greece.
astydama.com+1
GRAthens, Greece
Large-scale community farm project in Antonis Tritsis Park, Athens. 50,000 square meters of park land transformed into community food production area. Integrates urban greening with food production. Operates with citizen participation and educational programs. A significant-scale example of urban agriculture in Greece.
astydama.com+1
PLKraków, Poland
Social gardens program implemented by Krakow's Greenspace Authority since 2018. Operates 9 community gardens and 18 school gardens. Integrates education through the 'Garden with Class' project. Hosts annual 'Urban Gardeners' School' to expand residents' gardening knowledge. Functions as a school and community-integrated urban agriculture model in Poland.
sciencedirect.com+1
CLSantiago, Chile
Urban agriculture initiative led by NGO Cultivos Urbanos in Santiago. Encourages citizens to develop a new relationship with nature through workshops on native plants, herbs, and bushes. Integrates indigenous plant culture recovery with sustainable urban agriculture. Operates across multiple Santiago neighborhoods.
unsustainablemagazine.com+1
MYKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sustainable urban farm established in 2015 in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Uses permaculture principles to advance food production, waste management, and sustainable living innovation. Operates as social enterprise, serving as a driver for urban agriculture and environmental education in Malaysia. Combines food production with waste reduction and circular resource management.
investkl.gov.my+1
ARRosario, Argentina
Rosario's urban agriculture initiative emerged as a community response to Argentina's 2001 economic crisis. The city has won international awards for its vast urban agriculture programs spanning about 45 hectares (30 hectares of community orchard parks and 15 hectares of family gardens). Despite past success, El Bosque now faces challenges from lack of state support.
pulitzercenter.org+2
CAToronto, Canada
A 2024 resident-led composting stewardship program in Thorncliffe Park with City of Toronto support. Since launch, the program has collected over 3,000 pounds of organic waste, demonstrating strong community engagement in circular economy practices.
thorncliffeparkurbanfarmers.ca+1
USChicago, United States
Part of NACDI's Indigenous Food Sovereignty program, bringing together Native American urban farmers in Chicago to cultivate culturally appropriate foods and strengthen community economic self-determination.
nacdi.org+1
SGSingapore, Singapore
Singapore's hydroponics specialist using Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) to grow leafy greens and strawberries with 95% less water than conventional farming; supports Singapore's 30by30 food security goal.
sfa.gov.sg+1
USDetroit, United States
Community-led composting initiative diverting food scraps from landfills and teaching sustainable waste management; diverted 3,300+ pounds of food waste between Aug–Nov 2025; supports circular urban food systems.
planetdetroit.org+1
NGLagos, Nigeria
Lagos State government initiative encouraging urban farming to increase local food production from 20-24% to 40-50% by 2025. Citizens are adopting household gardening to address food security, reduce market dependence, and lower costs.
climateaction.africa+1
BRSão Paulo, Brazil
Urban horticulturists network promoting food autonomy and agroecology. São Paulo's 2020 survey identified 735 agricultural units, 104 urban gardens, and 170 institutional gardens. Gardens on public and private land strengthen community participation and land stewardship.
news.mongabay.com+1
MXMexico City, Mexico
Founded by three young women, Sembradores Urbanos opened Mexico's first urban agriculture demonstration center in August 2007. Teaches residents how to connect with food, care for land, and create green spaces.
cityfarmer.info+1
CZPrague, Czechia
Kokoza established Prague's first community garden in 2012. As of February 2024, monitoring 150 gardens in Czechia (69 in Prague area, 14 in Brno). Advocates for garden integration into city plans and policies; establishes gardens for developers, corporations, and communities.
nadacevia.cz+1
INDelhi, India
Rooftop farming expansion across Delhi utilizing underused roofs for vegetable cultivation by residents. Promoted through Delhi's Draft Citizen's Policy for Urban Agriculture (2022), emphasizing residential and community farming via rooftop and kitchen gardens, vacant land allocation, and public awareness.
resilience.org+1
INMumbai / Multiple cities, India
Large-scale rooftop farming system deployed across 25 Indian cities with over 4,000 installations. Focused on residential and commercial rooftops, combining citizen-driven vegetable cultivation with food education and sustainable practices.
cityfarmer.info+1
THBangkok / Jakarta, Thailand & Indonesia
Comparative study of sustainable urban farming practices in Thailand and Indonesia. Community-driven agriculture addressing loss of agricultural land due to rapid urbanization. Both countries' municipalities providing space, funding, and awareness programs.
journal-iasssf.com+1
CLSantiago, Chile
Santiago municipalities (Cerro Navia, Ñuñoa) fund approximately 35 community urban garden projects focusing on neighborhood initiatives and environmental themes in public spaces and residential complexes.
sciencedirect.com
PELima, Peru
Multiple community kitchens in Metropolitan Lima operate hydroponics systems optimizing water and nutrient use. Vegetables produced are directly used in linked community kitchens for meal preparation, linking food security with healthy food access.
panoramas.secure.pitt.edu
ZACape Town, South Africa
Cape Town city government conducted multi-criteria decision analysis for urban agriculture site suitability. Implemented citizen-led agriculture projects at identified sites, integrating vacant land utilization with food security.
tandfonline.com
ZAJohannesburg, South Africa
Small-scale farmers in Johannesburg practice urban agriculture through direct-to-community short food value chains. Reduces middlemen, improving farmer incomes while enhancing community food access. Represents an 'invisible' but significant local food economy.
link.springer.com+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
World's first underground farm, growing pesticide-free leaves under LED hydroponics in Clapham's WWII tunnels.
cnbc.com+1
USChicago, United States
A circular food hub in a former meat plant, housing indoor aquaponic farms and artisanal food tenants.
ourworld.unu.edu+1
DKTaastrup, Denmark
A 14-storey, wind-powered indoor vertical farm near Copenhagen, among Europe's largest.
yeshealthgroup.com+1
KRSeoul, South Korea
South Korea's first smart 'Metro Farm' in idle space at Sangdo Station on Seoul Subway Line 7.
english.seoul.go.kr+1
USNew York (Brooklyn), United States
A Brooklyn indoor vertical farm growing rare herbs and edible flowers, opened to the public via classes and tours.
prnewswire.com+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
The UK's first commercial aquaponic vertical farm, in a Beckton warehouse (closed end of 2017).
medium.com+1
FRParis, France
Paris's largest underground organic urban farm, in a disused basement car park in the 18th arrondissement.
lacaverne.co+1
BRSao Paulo, Brazil
One of Latin America's largest indoor vertical farms, growing greens without soil or sunlight in a Sao Paulo warehouse.
verticalfarmdaily.com+1
USLos Angeles, United States
A pioneering project mounting pesticide-free edible green walls on downtown LA buildings, including a public high school.
greenroofs.com
USNew York (Bronx), United States
America's first '100% edible classroom', using an edible wall to drive food education in a Bronx school.
greenbronxmachine.org
FRParis, France
An edible facade in Paris: hops climbing a 600 m2 wall on the Bastille opera house terrace farm.
freshplaza.com+1
SGSingapore, Singapore
A Singapore social enterprise embedding edible gardens across the city, including edible green walls.
ediblegardencity.com+1
SGSingapore, Singapore
A staff-participatory edible green wall installed in 2022 in KPMG's Asia Square office in Singapore.
hrexecutive.com+1
EGCairo, Egypt
Founded in 2011, it converts unused rooftops in Cairo's informal neighborhoods into pesticide-free productive space, lifting incomes while greening the city
egyptindependent.com+1
BDDhaka, Bangladesh
A rooftop greening and urban agriculture program run by Bangladesh's agriculture extension agency to green and feed the dense city of Dhaka
unb.com.bd+1
NGLagos, Nigeria
An urban-farming education program by a Lagos food bank that builds residents' agricultural knowledge and supports food security
lagosfoodbank.org
UGKampala, Uganda
A four-year urban food project Oxfam launched in 2021 with local NGO CIDI, scaling up small-scale urban farming in Kampala's slums
oxfam.org.uk
ZWBulawayo, Zimbabwe
An organization advancing urban farming and greening in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo, fostering community nurseries and farmer cooperatives
greenhut.org
PSGaza, Palestine
In land-scarce Gaza, Anera turns vulnerable families' rooftops into water-efficient productive space to foster food self-sufficiency and ease food insecurity
inhabitat.com+1
LBBeirut, Lebanon
A sustainable urban farming model launched in 2020 by the Food Heritage Foundation at a New Doha residential complex near Beirut, combining production with composting and egg farming
food-heritage.org
NPKathmandu, Nepal
An initiative by ENPHO with Kathmandu Metropolitan City, RUAF and UN-Habitat to integrate rooftop farming into the city's climate strategy
ruaf.org+1
BOEl Alto, Bolivia
A project supporting women with solar-greenhouse cultivation in high-altitude El Alto, producing fresh vegetables and improving nutrition in a harsh climate
use.metropolis.org+1
GHAccra, Ghana
A home-gardening initiative Solidaridad launched in Accra in 2023, encouraging urban households to grow safe, nutritious vegetables
graphic.com.gh+3
USMorehead, United States
A large-scale Kentucky indoor-farming startup; opened a 60-acre flagship greenhouse in 2020 but went from Wall Street darling to bankrupt in six years.
agfundernews.com+1
USOrlando, United States
An Orlando-based vertical-farming leader with farms in Orlando, Houston, Atlanta and Denver; filed Chapter 11 in April 2023.
thepacker.com+1
USPittsburgh, United States
A Pittsburgh robotics-driven vertical-farming startup; raised $35M and planned Columbus expansion but abruptly shut down in autumn 2022.
agfundernews.com+1
DEBerlin, Germany
A Berlin-founded firm that raised over $500M to become Europe's largest urban vertical farmer; after mass layoffs and insolvencies in 2022–2023 it retreated from Europe.
sifted.eu+1
USNew York, United States
Once valued at $2.3B and celebrity-backed, one of America's largest vertical-farming startups; announced closure of all facilities in November 2024.
techcrunch.com+1
USBrooklyn, United States
A Brooklyn aquaponics indoor-farming firm; was building a $160M Pennsylvania farm but wound down its 10-year-old business in March 2023.
just-food.com+1
FRParis, France
A Paris startup growing strawberries in shipping containers in the city; raised about €37M but entered receivership after a failed final funding round.
igrowpreowned.com+1
NLPoeldijk, Netherlands
An Israeli-Dutch vertical farmer; raised $30M with backing from Tencent but was declared bankrupt in January 2023.
dutchnews.nl+1
USBrooklyn, United States
A Brooklyn indoor-mushroom startup; filed Chapter 11 in February 2024, closed several company farms and pivoted to a partner-farm model.
agfundernews.com+1
USSouth San Francisco, United States
A Silicon Valley flagship of vertical farming that raised nearly $1B from SoftBank and others; filed Chapter 11 in March 2025, closed facilities and narrowed to premium strawberries.
techcrunch.com+1
USBedford Park, United States
A Bedford Park (Chicago) operation once billed as the world's largest indoor vertical farm; ceased farming in 2017 and pivoted to branded foods.
growertalks.com+1
NL, Netherlands
A Netherlands vertical-farming startup that ceased all activities in late 2022 after about two and a half years.
verticalfarmdaily.com+1
USSan Carlos, United States
A San Carlos, California startup building robotics-enabled greenhouses; raised over $100M but ceased operations after layoffs.
news.crunchbase.com+1
USLos Angeles, United States
A 14-acre lot once slated for a waste incinerator, turned into one of the largest urban farms in the US.
en.wikipedia.org+2
USNew York, United States
An iconic East Village community garden that became a flashpoint of anti-development protest.
en.wikipedia.org+1
USNew York, United States
A legendary circular garden on the Lower East Side, a pioneer of the urban gardening movement.
en.wikipedia.org+1
USNew York, United States
A garden that anchored a neighborhood scarred by drugs and violence, lost to development.
en.wikipedia.org+1
USSan Francisco, United States
A temporary-use urban farm that turned freeway ruins into a food forest.
sfexaminer.com+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Valued as an environmental asset mitigating pollution, but lost to housing redevelopment.
andyworthington.co.uk+1
GBSipson, London, United Kingdom
An ~11-year squatted community garden born from opposition to Heathrow expansion.
en.wikipedia.org+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A historic allotment promised 'in perpetuity', swept away for the Olympics.
en.wikipedia.org+1
DEBerlin, Germany
A neighborhood garden that lost its original site to an investor's apartment plans.
rosarose-garten.net+1
CASaskatoon, Canada
The first Saskatoon brownfield lot turned into a community garden, then ordered to vacate.
ctvnews.ca+1
CAToronto, Canada
A volunteer-tended garden inside a city park, bulldozed by the city without warning.
blogto.com
AUMelbourne, Australia
One of Melbourne's largest community gardens, on a downtown car-park rooftop with 140+ plots.
broadsheet.com.au+1
GBLondon (Beckton), United Kingdom
One of London's oldest city farms, run by Newham Council. In 2022 its closure was decided as part of the borough's austerity budget (a further £7.6M of cuts).
newhamrecorder.co.uk+1
GBEdinburgh, United Kingdom
One of Scotland's leading urban farms. Falling external funding and rising costs forced it into liquidation and closure in November 2019, with 18 job losses, as its grant-dependent finances collapsed.
bbc.co.uk+1
GBCoventry (Hillfields), United Kingdom
An inner-city farm opened in 1983 on Clarence Street, Hillfields. When the council withdrew its annual grant and reserves ran dry, a fundraising drive fell short and it closed in 2008 after 25 years.
coventrytelegraph.net+1
CAEdmonton, Canada
A city-run program Edmonton started in 2020 on ~5 acres of municipal land, donating its harvest (over 253,000 lbs cumulatively) to the food bank. It was cut in the city's 2024 Fall Supplemental Operating Budget.
globalnews.ca+1
USUkiah, California, United States
A ~20-year-old plot community garden in Ukiah. Its operator NCO could not secure funding after grant applications (including a $558,429 request to the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture) were rejected, and it closed at the end of June 2026.
mendovoice.com+1
USDetroit, Michigan, United States
A city-run urban gardening program launched by Detroit under Mayor Coleman Young in the 1975 recession, turning vacant lots into gardens to help residents grow food. When city funding dried up, the program was dissolved.
glass.hfcc.edu+1
USNewark, United States
A Newark, NJ pioneer of indoor vertical farming; after a failed 2021 SPAC listing it ran short of capital and filed Chapter 11 in 2023.
njbiz.com+1
KENairobi, Kenya
Sack gardening that spread in Nairobi's Kibera slum after the 2008 post-election violence, providing food security and livelihoods where there is no land
fao.org+4
KENairobi, Kenya
Sack farming method in Kibera: filling sacks with soil and organic waste, then vertically stacking them on rooftops, balconies, and fences to grow leafy vegetables. Over 1,000 residents have adopted this approach with NGO and government support, serving as a grassroots food security solution.
frontiersin.org+1
TRIstanbul, Turkey
Historic horticulture gardens along Istanbul's 16th-century walls, where about 120 urban farmers maintain 300 plots, preserving food production and cultural heritage amid urban development pressures.
middleeasteye.net+1
ZACape Town, South Africa
Abalimi Bezekhaya (established 1982 during Apartheid) assists thousands to set up and maintain home and community gardens on tiny city land fragments. Harvest of Hope social business sells produce to Cape Town residents.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
RWKigali, Rwanda
FAO Rwanda and Eza Neza (youth-led agritech startup) launched Kigali's first urban farming demonstration project featuring hydroponic systems, vertical farming, and rooftop gardens. 40,000 city dwellers engaged in urban farming.
tridge.com+1
FIHelsinki, Finland
Partnership between University of Helsinki and Viikki Food Design Factory. Sustainable farming practice and food education on urban campus. Launched first sales at Viikki Local Food Fair in June 2025.
helsinki.fi
SEStockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Municipality-led community gardens. Studied as sustainability and community building model. Research focus on incentives and participation mechanisms.
cambridge.org
SEMalmö, Sweden
Malmö city-wide urban farming initiative. Integrates social interaction, health, biodiversity, and climate action. Multiple formats deployed across parks and squares.
talkofthecities.iclei.org
NOOslo, Norway
Oslo community gardens have high demand with lengthy waiting lists. Research on citizen attitudes and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for different urban agriculture types.
researchgate.net
HUBudapest, Hungary
Budapest peri-urban agroforestry and community gardens. Case study of agricultural preservation amid post-socialist urbanization. Research focus on urban-rural relationships.
tandfonline.com+1
PTPorto, Portugal
After 2008 economic crisis, Porto residents cultivated empty land near social housing without ownership. Demonstrates grassroots food security and community resilience.
futurearchitectureplatform.org
SGSingapore, Singapore
National Parks Board initiative. 1,600+ community gardens with 50,000 members. Schools and community centers as hubs. Promotes rooftop and vertical farming. 2020 social enterprise urban farm grant program launched.
ourworld.unu.edu+1
NZWellington, New Zealand
Urban food forest developing in Wellington's inner city as of May 2025. Research on post-disaster food security potential. Studies on vegetable self-sufficiency rates and nutritional content from community gardens.
doi.org
NZChristchurch, New Zealand
Urban food forest developing in Christchurch's inner city as of May 2025. Community-led food production and environmental regeneration initiative.
verticalfarmingforum.com
AUSydney, Australia
700+ community gardens across Australia with ~20,000 weekly participants. Cultivating fresh produce, learning, relaxation, and community connection.
doi.org
USNew York, United States
A pioneering for-profit rooftop soil farm operating across several NYC buildings, balancing commercial production with education and community, and widely cited as a model for urban rooftop agriculture.
brooklyngrangefarm.com
COBogotá, Colombia
Urban agriculture network led by Bogotá's Botanical Garden. Part of public policy to strengthen 20,000 urban and peri-urban vegetable gardens. Cultivates over 120 nutritious plant species.
sciencedirect.com+2
INMumbai, India
Mumbai Port Trust transforms unused urban spaces into flourishing gardens. Employs women groups, improves access to fresh produce, and creates economic opportunities.
ibef.org+1
ZACape Town, South Africa
City of Cape Town and Provincial Agriculture support community gardens in low-income areas to enhance food security and nutrition.
tandfonline.com+1
KENairobi, Kenya
Nairobi County pilots rooftop gardens on public buildings. NGOs and youth groups experiment with greenhouse farming in peri-urban zones. Primary focus in Njiru, Kasarani, and Dagoretti sub-counties.
static.tu.berlin+2
BRSão Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo supports 2,600+ mapped agricultural sites, including 1,000+ school gardens. Provides bio-inputs, machinery, training, and investment support.
unep.org+1
BRCuritiba, Brazil
Curitiba's urban gardens program produces ~1,600 tons of fresh fruit and vegetables annually. Technology transfer through demonstration gardens and training hubs. Third urban farm demonstration plot opening by end of 2025.
unep.org
THBangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Rooftop Farming transforms unused rooftops and empty spaces into circular urban farms powered by organic compost from food waste. Closes the loop by converting waste from hotels and communities into nutrients for rooftop production. Addresses Bangkok's daily 9,000 tons of waste, 60% of which is organic food waste.
bangkokrooftopfarming.com+1
THBangkok, Thailand
Thammasat University's rooftop farm is Asia's largest organic facility spanning 236,806 sq ft. Grows over 40 edible species of crops including rice, indigenous vegetables, fruit trees, and herbs. Integrates modern landscape architecture with sustainable food production, renewable energy, organic waste management, and water conservation.
architizer.com+1
GHAccra, Ghana
Designated urban agriculture zones in Accra and Kumasi supporting household gardening projects. Uses treated wastewater for irrigation to ensure year-round cultivation while addressing food security and water resource efficiency.
cityfarmer.info
NGLagos, Nigeria
Community gardens in Yaba district of Lagos respond to food inflation and supply disruptions. Residents manage shared farming spaces and experiment with innovative methods including hydroponics, aquaponics, and container gardening to address food insecurity and economic hardship.
guardian.ng
INChennai, インド
Promotion of rooftop gardens in households and schools in southern Chennai. 2025 research confirmed that rooms below rooftop gardens were 1-2°C cooler than those below exposed roofs, with surface temperatures 8-12°C lower on average.
leisaindia.org+1
INBengaluru / Pune, インド
Primary research study (2024-2026) in Bengaluru and Pune. Urban agriculture practices are diverse across crop varieties, composting methods, and water reuse strategies. Active knowledge-sharing networks among practitioners enhance sustainability.
ibef.org+1
THBangkok, タイ
Community garden project launched in Bangkok. By 2022, 165 farms established across Bangkok. Expanded nationally through 'Thai City Farm' initiative to five additional cities. Integrates food production, livelihoods, and social connection.
una.city+1
KENairobi (Kawangware), ケニア
A 57-year-old landless farmer in Kawangware uses rooftop vegetables to support and educate four grandchildren. Exemplifies rapid adoption of sack gardening and rooftop farming in Nairobi's slums (Kibera, Mathare). Vertical cultivation using sacks filled with soil and organic waste; grows leafy vegetables like spinach and amaranth on rooftops, balconies, and fences.
thekenyatimes.com+1
KENairobi, ケニア
8,000 sq ft rooftop farm producing lettuce, bok choy, and herbs for supply to food chains and restaurants in Nairobi. Example of commercial rooftop farming in urban context.
thekenyatimes.com
NGLagos (Surulere), ナイジェリア
27-year-old graduate in Lagos (Surulere) built hydroponic rooftop farm using recycled plastic bottles, pipes, and small solar pump. Response to food inflation and supply disruptions in Nigeria. Grows lettuce, spinach, and basil.
guardian.ng
ZAJohannesburg, 南アフリカ
City of Johannesburg Food Resilience Unit and Johannesburg Development Agency implemented hydroponic rooftop gardens on inner-city buildings. Ensures food security for vulnerable residents and promotes entrepreneurship. One garden produces 40 kg of spinach weekly for local restaurants, generating approximately €52 in weekly revenue.
peopledaily.digital
CZPrague, チェコ共和国
Community garden movement in Prague launched 2012, expanded rapidly: 10 gardens by 2013, 24 by end of 2017, 42 registered public gardens currently. Spread to larger cities and towns, with expansion to smaller municipalities (Nový Jičín, Ústí nad Labem, Blatná) after 2018. Growing public recognition of social farming; legal frameworks for support in development.
adaptacepraha.cz+1
USSeattle, United States
Seattle Parks integrated community gardens into public park spaces with clear roles, participatory planning, and community engagement
sciencedirect.com
TWTaipei, Taiwan
University-community partnership addressing urban food security through campus and neighborhood agriculture with participatory research
mdpi.com
NLAlmere, Netherlands
Peri-urban agriculture in Almere integrating community and farmer practices with comprehensive land-use planning and social engagement
sciencedirect.com
UGKampala, Uganda
Urban agriculture in Kampala operates as an evolved and dynamic urban livelihood, attracting farmers across income levels with sustainable food production practices
link.springer.com
ETAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
Urban agriculture in Addis Ababa's Kirkos sub-city provides household food security for low-income families using low-input, organic methods
frontiersin.org
ITPadua, Italy
Participatory spatial planning process in Padua using multicriteria analysis to identify suitable community garden sites for inclusive urban development
frontiersin.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Citizen science project quantifying crop yields from London community gardens during 2019-2020 growing seasons to demonstrate urban farming productivity
digitalcommons.lmu.edu
GRMaroussi, Greece
A northern Athens suburb community garden dividing land into 40 plots of 25 sqm each for local residents. Pioneer of municipal gardens movement in Greece since 2012.
redandblack.com
HUBudapest, Hungary
Budapest's grassroots community garden movement transforming vacant urban lots. Supported by KÉK Contemporary Architecture Centre since 2010, with nearly 80 active gardens documented.
eu-opensci.org+1
PLWarsaw, Poland
Warsaw-based community farm cooperative offering food education, eco-workshops and skill training for underprivileged communities. Joined AMPLE Warsaw program in 2025.
botany.one+1
ROBucharest, Romania
Kaufland Romania's network of 9 community gardens across Bucharest—on rooftops, in parking areas, and at schools. Demonstrates corporate investment in urban food production.
cityfarmer.info
RWKigali, Rwanda
Kigali farmers and artisans market supporting urban agriculture. Located in Green Village, enabling direct trade between urban farmers and artisans.
cityfarmer.info
MACasablanca, Morocco
Rooftop hydroponic gardens by Casablanca apartment residents using water-efficient systems to reduce grocery costs and improve dietary diversity.
cleangreenmorocco.com
ARBuenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires Province launched Bonaerense Urban Garden Program in 2024, distributing over 1.5 million agroecological seedlings across 125 municipalities to strengthen food security and localized agriculture.
noticiasambientales.com
PELima, Peru
MUSA project, led by Cuso International, provides agriculture training and community garden expansion for women farmers in low-income Lima districts. Addresses food insecurity and malnutrition across 350+ farmers and 204 gardens.
cusointernational.org
PELima, Peru
30-month initiative to boost Lima's local food production. Transforms gardens into hubs with composting and organic cycle training, plus fair trade labeling to support sustainable local agriculture.
cusointernational.org
COBogota, Colombia
Bogota operates an agroecology network of 8,000+ urban gardens mapped and networked via platform. Mobile app (AUPA) launched in 2022 delivers digital training and support. Aims to strengthen 20,000 gardens and train 40,000 people.
use.metropolis.org
COMedellín, Colombia
Medellín operates multiple urban farming programs addressing food security and social healing in low-income districts. AgroArte (San Javier) has 15+ years of operations. Terrazas Verdes (Comuna 13) uses rooftop hydroponics for production.
fao.org
CLSantiago, Chile
Santiago community gardens restore native Chilean plants while producing food. Operating in districts like La Pintana, they promote food democracy and ecological citizenship through participatory action.
frontiersin.org
UGKampala, Uganda
Kampala has sustained urban farming since the 1970s-80s economic crisis. As of 2023, 95% of food consumed is locally produced. Urban farming generates double the food value of imports, underpinning food security.
nycfoodpolicy.org
UGKampala, Uganda
Vertical farming system developed by women entrepreneurs in Uganda. Built from wood and recycled plastic, each unit grows 200 plants with 360-degree sun rotation and drip irrigation for efficient urban food production and waste reduction.
agritecture.com
ILMultiple cities, Israel
Urban Farming Israel is a nonprofit promoting civic agriculture that emphasizes community values and personal empowerment. Agricultural complexes teach innovative growing methods and supply food to urban communities across Israel.
urbanfarming.org.il
PSMultiple (Gaza, West Bank), Palestine
Anera supports Palestinian farmers with agricultural cooperatives and water-efficient irrigation technologies including wicking bed hydroponics. Greenhouse at Beit Hanoun Women's Center in Gaza uses only 10-20% of traditional water requirements.
anera.org
MXMexico City, Mexico
Cultiva Ciudad manages school gardens in Mexico City and converts 1,500+ kg of food waste annually into fertile soil. Huerto Tlatelolco project features a 1,650 m2 edible forest with 45 tree varieties plus a seed bank, advancing food sovereignty and organic recycling.
zeahungrygoods.com
PHManila, フィリピン
Metro Manila showcases diverse urban agriculture experimentations by citizens. Various experiments utilizing vacant spaces and community areas contribute to food security and community building.
journals.sagepub.com
INMultiple cities, インド
Earth5R collaborates with apartment societies to create and manage community rooftop gardens. Includes training in hydroponics, IoT irrigation, and yield optimization technologies. Strengthens neighborhood bonds and supplies fresh produce.
earth5r.org
CNBeijing, 中国
3-story building with 3,500 m² integrating vertical farming. Features open-ground fruit and berry cultivation, automated vertical lettuce growing, LED-lit fruit production, and rooftop greenhouse tomato/cucumber cultivation with visitor education routing.
urbannext.net
FRParis, France
Paris has 150+ shared gardens across almost all arrondissements. In 2025, a new call for projects for 'Shared Gardens Main Verte and Relay Gardens' was launched. Nationally, France expanded from 3,000 gardens in 2015 to over 12,000.
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GRAthens, Greece
Following the 2010 economic crisis, citizens in Athens began using public space for productive, social, and educational purposes. Municipal gardens launched in 2012. A municipal plot in Maroussi was divided into 40 sections (25 m² each) for citizen gardening. Antonis Tritsis Park announced plans to develop 50,000 m² of land into a community farm.
astydama.com+1
MXMexico City, Mexico
Mexico City formed the Urban Garden System (SHU) in 2024 with Sedema, UNEP, and local allies. On a 3,600 m² plot, they cultivate traditional milpa (corn, climbing beans, squash association) and conduct workshops on traditional cultivation systems.
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DKCopenhagen, Denmark
Organic rooftop garden opened in March 2011 on Blågårds School in Nørrebro. Copenhagen was named European Green Capital in 2014, and now has active urban agriculture and colony garden culture, with emerging technologies like vertical farming.
gradynewsource.uga.edu+1
PTLisbon, Portugal
Launched in 2011 to convert vacant lots and degraded parks into urban allotment parks. By 2020, 20 parks with 750 allotments across the city. Priority access for unemployed, elderly, low-income residents. Parks freely open to visitors. Lisbon won European Green Capital Award in 2020.
interlace-hub.com+1
DEBerlin, Germany
Berlin's highest urban gardening project located on the rooftop of Neukölln Arkaden shopping centre. Features herb and coloring plant cultivation, with guided tours and garden experiences for visitors.
cityfarmer.info+1
AUPerth, Australia
Government grant program providing up to AUD $10,000 for community garden projects. Supports food security and community engagement through various initiatives including seed-saving workshops, security improvements, and native/medicinal plant knowledge sharing
wa.gov.au
BRCuritiba, Brazil
Curitiba's integrated urban food system recognized as a model for Brazil and UNDP urban agriculture initiatives. 2021 designation as mentor city for the Urban Laboratory for Integrated Municipal Food Policies
aiph.org
NLRotterdam, Netherlands
Europe's largest open-air rooftop farm at 1000m² on the Schieblock in Rotterdam. Produces vegetables, edible flowers, fruits, and herbs while keeping bees. Community-operated
brightvibes.com
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
16-hectare organic farm in Amsterdam West featuring innovative cherry and raspberry cultivation, free-roaming hens, CSA section, organic shop, and meeting rooms. Exemplary community-participatory agriculture
iamsterdam.com
ESMadrid, Spain
Joint initiative between Madrid Agroecologico and municipal government managing organic waste from schools, residences, and markets. Local farmers produce compost, closing urban nutrient cycles
link.springer.com
ESEl Robledo, Spain
Small town south of Madrid (pop. ~2,000) where over 100 families operate a community composting facility, processing organic waste collectively and supporting local agriculture
sciencedirect.com
DEBerlin, Germany
Community-operated gardens on the former Templehof airport grounds in Berlin. Produces vegetables and fruits, hosts educational workshops, and serves as a community meeting space. Exemplary resident-led urban farming
foodtank.com
DEBerlin, Germany
Intercultural community garden with 50+ raised beds in Berlin. Open to residents of diverse cultural backgrounds. Functions as a space for cultural exchange and community activities
cityfarmer.info
FRParis, France
City of Paris program launched in 2016 to accelerate urban agriculture. Identifies diverse sites (rooftops, walls, parking lots, vacant lots) for farmer production. Goal of planting 100 hectares of vegetation across Paris
resilientcitiesnetwork.org
FRParis, France
Network of 10 rooftop farms across Paris operated by Agripolis (since 2017). Produces ~1000kg vegetables daily in high season. Vertical closed-loop system using no water waste and no pesticides. Operated by ~20 farmers
positive.news
DKCopenhagen, Denmark
Denmark's first rooftop farm, opened in 2014 atop a former car-auction house in Copenhagen's Østerbro district. With a 600 m² organic growing area plus a greenhouse, henhouse and beehives, it connects food and nature in the heart of the city through a CSA and volunteers.
wonderfulcopenhagen.com+1
SGSingapore, Singapore
NParks' nationwide citizen gardening programme 'Community in Bloom', begun in 2005 at Mayfair Park Estate, together with the 'Allotment Gardening' scheme introduced in 2016. In the land-scarce city-state of Singapore, they spread citizen food-growing and gardening across estates, parks and rooftops.
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GRThessaloniki, Greece
PER.KA (peri-urban cultivators), a self-managed urban farming collective born in 2011 in Thessaloniki against the backdrop of Greece's economic crisis. Citizens occupied an abandoned ex-military camp and cultivate organically across 7 gardens and over 130 plots, a leading Greek case of urban commons.
journals.sagepub.com+1
CUHavana, Cuba
An organic urban farm in Havana started in 1997 by five cooperative members against the food crisis of the post-Soviet 'Special Period'. Around 150 members collectively manage about 11 ha, and it is regarded as one of Cuba's most successful examples of urban agriculture (organopónico).
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SEGothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg's colony and allotment gardens, begun in 1903 inspired by the German colony movement. Alongside around 3,000 colony plots, shared urban-farming gardens run by growing associations have spread in recent years, actively supported by the city.
gothenburggreenworld.com+1
FRLyon, France
The Lyon chapter of the international Incredible Edible movement (begun 2008 in Todmorden, UK), active since 2011. Volunteers plant vegetables and herbs in shared street planters that anyone can harvest, turning public space into a free 'self-service' vegetable garden. Planters are placed using permaculture principles based on sunlight and water access.
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MARabat, Morocco
Swani Tiqa is a set of three citizen-run agroecological gardens in Rabat (started 2009) producing vegetables and herbs for nearby families through short producer-consumer chains. They are coordinated by RIAM, Morocco's national agroecology network, and took part in the pilot for the country's Participatory Guarantee System.
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BDDhaka, Bangladesh
FAO's Dhaka Food System project (2019–2023) trained and equipped 440 mostly-female residents of poor Dhaka neighborhoods to grow vegetables and fruit on rooftops and small surface plots. Local NGO Proshika supplied seeds, saplings, tools and fertilizer, and participants received gardening and nutrition training. It is a citizen/community gardening program, not agritech.
fao.org+1
NPKathmandu, Nepal
A citizen-focused rooftop farming program led by ENPHO and Kathmandu Metropolitan City (with RUAF and UN-Habitat technical support), launched in 2013. Households are trained to grow vegetables on their roofs using vermicompost, waste segregation, nursery management and rainwater harvesting, framed as a climate-adaptation and urban food-security strategy. Its demonstration gardens and training manual helped spread rooftop farming across the Kathmandu Valley.
enpho.org+1
FIHelsinki, Finland
Dodo's urban-farming centre on a former railway turntable in Helsinki's Pasila yard — an open hub with a greenhouse, café and gardens that has helped lead Finland's citizen-driven urban gardening movement.
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NOOslo, Norway
A public urban farm in Oslo's Bjørvika redevelopment that links urban farming, art and community — an ancient-grain field, gardens, a public bakehouse and allotments on a former container port, growing food and green space in the heart of the city.
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CZPrague, Czechia
A Prague social enterprise turning unused urban land into community gardens and composting hubs, spreading composting and gardening among citizens, businesses and government while offering work and inclusion to people with mental illness.
inherit.eu+2
IEDublin, Ireland
A citizen-led community garden created by residents in 2005 on a corner plot in Stoneybatter, Dublin 7. Doubling as a composting demonstration site, it has won several Dublin City Council awards for waste management and environmental design.
desireland.ie+1
HUBudapest, Hungary
A flagship model garden of Budapest's community-garden movement led by the Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK). An empty building site in District 8 was divided into 95 plots tended together by citizens of all ages. Closed in 2018 when construction began, it helped spread Hungary's community-gardening movement.
una.city+1
SEStockholm, Sweden
A mobile community garden on a disused Stockholm railway track, started in 2012 and inspired by Berlin's Prinzessinnengärten and New York's High Line, where citizens farm collectively and create a hub for food and culture.
axfoundation.se+2
PEComas, Lima, Peru
A community organic garden in Comas, in the largely rainless megacity of Lima, run largely by elderly migrant women — a citizen-led urban farm fostering food security, climate adaptation and community ties.
foodtank.com+1
UGKampala, Uganda
A citizen urban farm in land-scarce Kampala, Uganda, where young people grow food in sack gardens across three city sites, harvesting around 500 kg a month and helping feed local schools.
triplepundit.com
PTLisbon, Portugal
One of the first municipal horticultural parks opened by Lisbon in 2011, turning vacant lots and run-down parks into plots tended by residents — a leading Portuguese example of urban farming that links green infrastructure with social inclusion and food education.
informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt+1
DKCopenhagen, Denmark
Denmark's first rooftop farm, built atop a five-storey former car-auction building. Run as a CSA in which citizens invest and participate, with an on-site restaurant serving the harvest.
oestergro.dk+1
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A self-harvest urban farm on a former sports-park site in Amsterdam-Noord, run by a collective of eco-entrepreneurs where members harvest weekly from naturally-farmed beds.
stadstuinderijnoordoogst.nl+1
ESBarcelona, Spain
A self-managed community garden born from the 2011 15-M (Indignados) movement by reclaiming a vacant lot — seen as a symbol of resistance to speculative development and the 'right to the city'.
hortindignat2poblenou.wordpress.com+1
SEGothenburg, Sweden
A neighbourhood urban-farming project begun in Gothenburg's Högsbo and Bergsjön that combines cultivation with citizen 'foster' sponsorship of goats and pigs.
stadsjord.se+1
USMilwaukee, United States
An urban agriculture nonprofit founded in Milwaukee in 1993 by Will Allen, a former professional basketball player. Based on what was described as the last functional farm inside Milwaukee city limits, it ran aquaponics, composting and soil-reclamation operations together with a large training programme for city residents, and also maintained a Chicago office. It became one of the best-known symbols of the US urban farming movement.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Started in 1977 as Jubilee City Farm by a group of architects squatting at St Oswald's Place, in a Vauxhall neighbourhood cleared by demolitions between 1972 and 1976. Now in the London Borough of Lambeth, it keeps alpacas, sheep, goats, pigs, donkeys and ponies and works across education, youth work, animal care and horticulture.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A 13-hectare (32-acre) urban farm and park in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, east London. The site had been a dumping ground for dock excavation spoil since the 1860s; when the Port of London Authority moved to transfer it for housing in the early 1970s, the Association of Island Communities ran a successful campaign to keep it as public open space, and the farm was established in 1977.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A 1.3-acre city farm in Tower Hamlets, east London, close to Brick Lane. It started in 1978 as an allotment site on the wasteland left by a former railway goods depot, later added animals to become a city farm, and achieved charity status in 1980.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A city farm of about 4.2 acres in Stepney, east London, founded in 1979 by Lynne Bennett as 'Stepping Stones' on the wasteland left after the Stepney Congregational Church was destroyed by bombing in 1941. It combines livestock, a community garden, a farmers' market and traditional craft workshops.
en.wikipedia.org
USChicago, United States
A 20,000-square-foot urban agriculture facility opened in 2016 in a historically disinvested food desert in Chicago, Illinois, by the Chicago Botanic Garden together with Lawndale Christian Health Center. It anchors VeggieRx, a produce prescription programme in which clinicians refer patients to the farm for free produce boxes, nutrition counselling and cooking classes.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ECQuito, Ecuador
An urban garden initiative that began operating in Quito, Ecuador, in 2015, providing people with severe mental health problems with work and income through agroecological organic food production, and with a place of social participation. The idea emerged in 2014 from an assembly of users, families and professionals at a community mental health service in northern Quito, and by the end of 2015 the group had secured a plot in Nayón on the edge of Quito.
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PELima, Peru
A multi-sectoral project in the rocky peripheral settlements of the Pachacámac district south of metropolitan Lima, Peru, targeting households with children aged 0–3. Community health promoters delivered home and community gardening, nutrition and parenting workshops in sequence, aiming to improve early child development and household food security. The design uses gardens as an entry point to nutrition and parenting rather than as a stand-alone activity.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
LBAkkar / Tripoli / Bekaa, Lebanon
An FAO project run from 15 September 2015 to 15 June 2016 under the constraint that the Lebanese government does not permit Syrian refugees to cultivate land. It deployed micro-gardens on the walls of dwellings for landless vulnerable households, with the stated objective of promoting diversified, quality food. The 170 direct beneficiaries across Akkar, Tripoli and the Bekaa comprised 76 vulnerable Lebanese and 94 displaced Syrians.
reliefweb.int+1
JPKobe (須磨区), Japan
A multi-generational community garden on the rooftop of the Suma Patio shopping centre in Suma Ward, Kobe. Rather than simply growing vegetables, it treats "eating" as a year-round, whole-cycle experience, with regular hands-on workshops. Weeds and plant residues from the rooftop beds and workshops are composted and returned to the garden's planters and to nearby fields, closing a small local resource loop.
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JPKobe (垂水区), Japan
An urban garden run by the incorporated association Tanemaki LAB. With the cooperation of Kobe International University High School, previously unused land inside the school grounds has been brought back into use as a place where local residents gather, work the soil and meet. It is framed not as a plot-rental service but as community-building linking "people to people" and "everyday life to nature", with workshops that let anyone experience the loop from household food scraps to compost, vegetables and the table.
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JPKobe (中央区), Japan
A citizen-participation community garden based in Ikutacho Park, near Shin-Kobe station, created as part of Kobe City's "Kobe Saien Project". Alongside vegetable growing it focuses on making sustainable living tangible — composting, resource cycling and soil building. The operators describe composting not as waste disposal but as "a small doorway into the cycle that connects people, neighbourhood and nature", aiming to start local cycling from curiosity and enjoyment rather than from environmental problems framed as difficult.
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JPKobe (兵庫区・長田区), Japan
A come-empty-handed rental garden run at two sites in Kobe — Kanda-cho in Hyogo Ward and Komagabayashi-cho in Nagata Ward — by Akisuke Nagata, a group that turns vacant houses and lots into neighbourhood assets. Its distinguishing feature is that vegetable waste and prunings are recycled into compost with a local type-B employment support workshop rather than incinerated, with the goal of getting people to use fully matured "craft compost", made entirely from local plant material and inputs, as a matter of course.
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JPKobe (兵庫区), Japan
A community complex created by renovating Minatoyama municipal primary school, closed in 2015, around the theme of "making nature and everyday life". An aquarium, an edible botanical garden, a herb shop, a brewery, a supported-employment facility, childcare and after-school care and welfare services sit side by side, cultivating a place where people, nature and neighbourhood connect. As a partner organisation of the Kobe Compost Project it sets out to work with users to find forms of cycling that are easy to sustain in daily life.
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JPKobe (北区), Japan
A community group based in Ogo-cho, Kita Ward, Kobe, that since 2019 has been clearing neglected bamboo groves and putting the bamboo to use. Left alone, bamboo encroaches on fields, degrades the landscape and shelters crop-raiding animals, so continuous cutting is needed to return the hills to open, managed satoyama. Under the motto "tasty and fun", bamboo and shoots are upcycled instead of discarded — into domestic menma, bamboo craft and the transmission of those skills, and fertiliser made from bamboo chips. Its bamboo-chip compost is used in the Kobe Compost Project's public workshops.
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JPKobe (長田区), Japan
A group based at a community garden in Mano, Nagata Ward, Kobe, where children and local residents learn hands-on how food, farming and the environment connect. Using a small garden inside a residential area, it runs a "sixth-industry" model covering not just growing and harvesting but processing and selling. Spent coffee grounds collected from local cafés are composted in a community composter and returned to the garden.
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JPKobe (須磨区), Japan
An open space on the edge of the Tainohata settlement in Suma Ward, Kobe, run by the workers' co-operative Hata, whose proposals for daily life include "a life that makes soil". Since the previous year it has run a cycling garden: vegetable scraps from its kitchen are broken down by microbes in the garden composter into soil, that soil goes back to the beds, the beds become habitat for a range of living things, and flowers and vegetables are harvested and eaten. It invites neighbours and users to compost at home too, using the compost themselves or bringing any surplus back to Hata, so the cycle is shared.
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GBLeeds, United Kingdom
A 24-acre urban farm in Meanwood, Leeds, established in 1980. It demonstrates organic farming and sustainability, keeping Dexter cattle, Whitefaced Woodland and Ryeland sheep, alpacas, goats, several breeds of pig, chickens and ducks, and producing honey. It also runs a Recycled Bike Project teaching mechanical skills to young people.
en.wikipedia.org
USNew York, United States
A half-acre community farm opened in 1992 by Abu Talib and neighbourhood residents on a city-owned vacant lot in Highbridge, the Bronx. Alongside vegetables it keeps bee colonies and chickens, producing roughly 10,000 pounds of food a year.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
An urban farm started in 1972 by Sandy Wheeler on a Freightliners goods yard in York Way, relocated in 1978 to Lower Holloway, Islington, when the original site was needed for council housing. It has an ornamental garden, vegetable, herb and fruit gardens, and an animal village.
en.wikipedia.org
GBManchester, United Kingdom
A farm inside the city, established in 1984 in Sharston and later moved to Wythenshawe Park in south Manchester. It keeps pigs, sheep, goats, cows and horses, and its Hereford herd has won awards. The walled garden behind the farm historically supplied fruit and vegetables to Wythenshawe Hall.
en.wikipedia.org
JPNagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan
A civic project by Nagasaki Urban Landscape Institute / null turning vacant lots on Nagasaki’s sloping streets into allotment gardens. Since Base opened in 2020 it has grown to five sites by 2025, including Japan’s Kyushu first civic entrustment of idle national land (The View). It eases owners’ vacant-lot upkeep while drawing younger residents, schools and welfare partners into the hillside neighbourhood.
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JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Opened August 2026 on the Kanagawa Prefectural Office east-building terrace. Aquaponics links food education, agri-welfare work and community-building in a civic rooftop space, making ‘living together with nature’ visible ahead of GREEN×EXPO 2027.
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JPToshima, Tokyo, Japan
Opened June 2026 by Toshima Ward and DAIKEN on a former school-pool site. In a dense ward without farms, unused land becomes a shared multi-generation garden for social connection, food education and easy growing—not plot rental.
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JPIchihara, Chiba, Japan
Membership community farms by Idemitsu and Plantio in Ichihara, Chiba—idle company land (2022) then a city park satellite (2023). Cited in planning reports as non-agri private-sector entry into urban gardens, drawing parenting households for food education and connection.
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JPKunitachi, Tokyo, Japan
An NPO community garden in Yaho, Kunitachi, offering both private and shared plots. Layers farm living with childcare and neighbourhood belonging, linked to the group’s wider farm-experience sites.
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JPShimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
ARCH turns national land on Shimonoseki’s sloping dense streets into a share farm—cutting state upkeep on hard-to-sell plots while creating food-education and exchange near the station. A regional spread of Sakanoen-style national-land interim gardening.
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AUMelbourne, Australia
A publicly accessible farm on the Yarra River close to central Melbourne, opened in 1979. It keeps a wide range of animals — cows, goats, sheep, horses, ducks, pigs, chickens, geese, peacocks and guinea pigs — most of them rare breeds, including Nubian goats. The land was cultivated for Murnong by Indigenous peoples and has been farmed since 1838. It exists so that city children can encounter animals and farm work, and it also provides vegetable plots.
en.wikipedia.org
ESBarcelona, Spain
A squatted collective home and social centre with terraced vegetable gardens on the Collserola hillside beside Barcelona's Nou Barris district. The building is a 17th-century masia standing on a Roman site, later a nunnery and then a leper hospital, shuttered and abandoned in 1948. After roughly 53 years empty it was occupied by international activists in December 2001. In April 2002 police tried to remove eleven squatters; the residents locked themselves to precarious perches, seesaws and suspended frames outside the building for three days, and as public support grew a judge ordered the police to withdraw, ruling that human rights took precedence over property rights.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Opened in the London Borough of Camden in 1972 and described as London's first urban farm. Inspired by children's farms in the Netherlands, it combined keeping farm animals with gardening space, with the goal of letting local children experience contact with animals.
en.wikipedia.org+1
JPKobe (東灘区), Japan
An organic rental farm on the Kobe Bay Sheraton rooftop on Rokko Island, run with local farmers so city residents can grow, learn and build community around food.
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JPKobe (灘区), Japan
A circular smart rental farm near Oishi Station in Nada, pairing app support and ready gear so urban residents can grow vegetables easily.
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JPKobe (灘区), Japan
A smart rental farm on the HAT Kobe Nadanohama multi-storey car-park roof, turning municipal housing infrastructure into urban growing space.
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JPKobe (中央区), Japan
A citizen garden on Motomachi shopping street rooftops, run by Sorabatake / Tanemaki LAB with organic growing and farmer support.
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JPKobe (中央区), Japan
A smart rental farm at the north edge of Okurayama Park in Chuo Ward, offering empty-handed vegetable growing beside the cultural hall.
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JPKobe (長田区), Japan
A community garden in Shin-Minatogawa Park, Nagata, run by a neighbourhood group as an edible park focused on organic growing and mutual aid.
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JPKobe (垂水区), Japan
Residents jointly steward a former municipal housing site in Shioya, Tarumi—not private allotments but club-style growing of veg, herbs and grapes with shared harvests and picnics.
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JPKobe (北区), Japan
An organic rooftop rental farm atop Ecole Lilas in Kita Ward’s Fujiwaradai, with local farmer support for community and food learning.
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JPShinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Opened April 2026 on a former condo lot in Togoshi, Shinagawa. About 330㎡ split into farm and plaza uses Plantio grow’s shared cultivation and IoT support as a neighbourhood courtyard. Membership filled quickly; the project is building shop-street ties and a local gathering place.
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JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Opened September 2025 on the roof of Landport Yokohama Sugita. Japan’s first grow smart community farm on a multi-tenant logistics building, expanding from worker co-growing toward neighbourhood exchange and resilience.
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JPNagoya, Aichi, Japan
Started April 2023 on vacant land at Nagoya’s Higashi Betsuin. Regenerative edible gardening aims to make Nagoya an edible city; about fifty people drop in between work and childcare, practising urban carbon sequestration.
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JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Since 2018 in Hommoku, Yokohama: a renovated farmhouse with a garden as a neighbourhood place. A 2025 civic grant improved access and visibility. Garden, kitchen and clubs now host multi-generational community gardening.
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JPShibuya, Tokyo, Japan
A grow-enabled farm beside SLOTH JINNAN TERRACE in Shibuya’s Jinnan. Grows revived Shibuya tea, Jerusalem artichoke and greens for hyper-local Farm-to-Table in central Tokyo.
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JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Yokohama’s Midori Up ‘farm parks’—eleven sites since Minamihonjuku Third Park (2013)—combine allotments and collaborative gardens so farmland conservation and citizen farming meet inside the park system.
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JPJoto, Osaka, Japan
Citizen allotments opened in 2019 in Osaka’s Gamoyon (Gamo 4-chome) on lots cleared after typhoon-damaged vacant houses. Run by the Gamoyon revitalisation project, all 29 plots stay full as an everyday farming and neighbour hub.
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JPHigashisumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan
Opened 2009 on a former municipal-housing site in Yata, Higashi-Sumiyoshi. A ward–citizen farm for flower/vegetable place-making, engaging hundreds each year—Osaka’s flagship urban kleingarten.
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JPAbeno, Osaka, Japan
Allotments on the roof of Abeno Harukas Kintetsu flagship. MyFarm has run it since April 2023—an emblematic high-rise rooftop for grow-your-own and urban community.
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JPHigashisumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan
A cultivation-experience farm inside Nagai Park—not allotments but family programs on Naniwa heirlooms and food culture, layering education and community in a city park.
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JPJoto, Osaka, Japan
A rice paddy inside Times Peace Square condominium in Imafukunishi, Joto. For 15+ years the residents’ Rice Club has grown mochi rice and kept multi-generational ties alive in urban housing.
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JPNaniwa, Osaka, Japan
Kansai’s first Share Batake Garden, opened 2023 on Namba OCAT’s roof—about 700㎡ and 130 container plots bringing grow-your-own into Minami’s transit hub.
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JPTsurumi, Osaka, Japan
Green Farm Tsurumi, a Type-B employment support farm shop in Yokozutsumi, Osaka. Agri-welfare work spans growing, processing and retail beside the metro station.
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JPOsaka, Japan
JA Osaka City’s Midori allotment network across the city. With no city-run allotments, it is core soil infrastructure for neighbourhoods including Tsurumi near Yokozutsumi.
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JPSumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan
In Uesumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi Ward: a nagaya paired with a vacant-lot farm. Started 2023 as Minna-no-Uen Uesumiyoshi; since April 2025 it continues as owner-run Uesumiyoshi Farm.
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IEDublin, Ireland
A 38-acre (15 ha) farm and garden estate on Overend Avenue in Dundrum, south Dublin, centred on a house built around 1830. The Overend sisters kept a Victorian-era farm going in the midst of a suburbanising region and left it as a trust in 1974. It keeps Jersey cattle, Jacob sheep, Oxford Sandy and Black pigs, Saanen goats, Rhode Island Red chickens, Irish Angus cattle and donkeys, and practises organic farming and soil regeneration. Its eight acres of gardens include ornamental planting and a walled garden alongside a three-acre organic food garden growing seasonal crops.
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GBLondon, United Kingdom
A city farm inside Haggerston Park in the London Borough of Hackney, established in 1984 as a community and educational resource. It is home to poultry, sheep, rabbits, bees, pigs and a donkey, with a farmyard, grazing area, garden and a tree nursery with a butterfly house. It runs educational projects, exhibitions, craft courses and farm trails, and was visited in 2009 by the then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.
en.wikipedia.org
GBSheffield, United Kingdom
A city farm in the Heeley district of Sheffield, founded in 1981 on land earmarked for the Sheffield South Relief road — the Heeley bypass — a scheme that blighted the lives of hundreds of local residents for 30 years and was never begun. Built around a wind- and sun-powered mini-farm, it also runs recycling, a garden centre, a café and a charity shop, combining environmental, health, food and farming education with training for disabled people, unemployed adults and young people. From 31 October 2008 it began reconstructing an Iron Age roundhouse with the University of Sheffield's Archaeology Department, targeted for completion in early 2011.
en.wikipedia.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A citizens' initiative to develop an agro-ecological landscape park in the Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, near Schiphol, combining sustainable food production, nature development, education and recreation. It was established in 2022 after years of protest against plans for industrial development, and in May 2025 won the municipal tender to develop the 9.5-hectare parcel kavel N5; in July 2025 the municipality allocated 26 hectares in total to urban agriculture.
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NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A green area in Oud Osdorp, Amsterdam Nieuw-West, spread on both sides of the Osdorperweg. Designated as undeveloped in the 1935 Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan and confirmed as recreational land in the 2003 structuurplan, its development began in 2009. It belongs to the 'green fingers' idea conceived by the urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren and serves ecological connectivity as part of the Groene As. Made up of four polders, it contains allotment parks, a bee park, the Fruittuin van West orchard opened in 2014, and urban agriculture enterprises.
nl.wikipedia.org
BOLa Paz, Bolivia
A resident-run urban garden in the Cotahuma district of La Paz, described as the first of its kind in Bolivia. Forty families have grown organic produce on a steep site at 3,600 m. The garden is both a source of food and a place of learning: it has an ecological trail and is used to teach food security. Fundación Alternativas, which runs it, uses the site as the base for public courses in urban agriculture. Bolivian entries in this database have so far centred on the solar greenhouses (carpas solares) of El Alto; this is a shared garden under quite different conditions, on a high-altitude slope.
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ROBucharest, Romania
A community garden in the middle of Bucharest, said to be the only place of its kind for the 240,000 inhabitants of the surrounding quarter. Residents grow vegetables, herbs and flowers there and learn organic growing and composting hands-on. This database already holds the corporate-led Grădinescu network and the citizen-founded Urban CULTOR as Bucharest cases; this one is a single resident garden rooted in one neighbourhood, notable both for its small scale and for having no alternative nearby.
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BEBrussels, Belgium
An experimental, participatory garden on a Brussels rooftop. It is worked as a natural but intensive garden, mixing vegetables, aromatic plants and small fruits for eating with wild and indigenous species for biodiversity on the same roof. Le Début des Haricots asbl, which runs it, also supports the founding of collective gardens across the city through Brussels Environment's "Inspirons le Quartier" call, so this rooftop is where the organisation tries things out itself. Belgium was previously represented in this database only by Chant des Cailles in Brussels, so this adds a different kind of space — a roof.
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CHGeneva, Switzerland
A citizens' vegetable garden opened in 2024 inside Parc Bertrand in the City of Geneva, with 255 m² of cultivable surface divided into plots. It was initiated by Le cardon enchanté, an association of neighbourhood residents. Over roughly the past twenty years nearly 80 collective vegetable garden projects have emerged in the city, turning lawns, planter boxes and fallow spaces in residential neighbourhoods into places of exchange and sharing. Because putting a garden on municipal land requires a formal request to the City, it is an example of resident initiative meshing with an administrative route. Switzerland was previously represented here only by Les Jardins de Cocagne in Geneva and Quartierhof Wynegg in Zurich, so this adds a small plot-based garden inside a public park.
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USSeattle, United States
A 1.5-acre community garden on a slope in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. Opened in 1975, it holds 101 garden allotments and 77 fruit trees. The gardeners are mostly low-income Asian seniors with an average age of 76. Alongside vegetables used in Asian cooking, the trees bear cherries, plums, Asian pears and apples. An on-site kitchen built in 2014 anchors the garden's community programmes.
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USSeattle, United States
A seven-acre (2.8 ha) food forest on Beacon Hill in Seattle, next to Jefferson Park. Started in 2012, it is planted with apple, pear, plum, quince, medlar and hazelnut alongside vegetables, and its sust̓əlǰixʷali Traditional Indian Medicine garden grows Indigenous medicinal plants. The land belongs to Seattle Public Utilities, and the site is believed to be the largest food forest on public land in the United States.
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USSeattle, United States
A roughly 4,000 m² allotment garden in Interbay, Seattle, opened in 1974 as one of the city's earliest P-Patch sites. More than 4,400 square feet (410 m²) along the fences is given over to food-bank gardening, which traditionally supplies about two tons of produce to community food banks each year.
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DKCopenhagen, Denmark
A self-built allotment (kolonihave) settlement on the north-west shore of Amager in Copenhagen, just south of Islands Brygge. It began in the 1930s with permission to use reclaimed land, and residents built their own huts and worked their gardens there. Negotiation with the city gave it standing as an allotment association, and it is now regulated by some 100 individual leases.
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USNew York, United States
A children's farm garden that ran from 1902 to 1932 in DeWitt Clinton Park on Manhattan's west side. It held 356 vegetable plots of 4 by 8 feet, each assigned to one child, along with flower beds, observation plots and a pergola under which night classes were held. It was discontinued in 1932 when a 250-foot (76 m) wide swath on the west side of the park was removed for highway construction.
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NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A park for beekeeping in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The first park opened in 1936 along Sloterweg in the Riekerpolder, and a newer one followed in 1965 on Osdorperweg in the De Eendracht polder. The grounds combine ornamental gardens with beekeepers' gardens, and include a small beekeeping museum holding the AVBB documentation centre. The Stichting Bijenpark Amsterdam has managed the sites since 1953.
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TNTunis, Tunisia
In the Hafsia quarter of the Medina of Tunis, a corner that had been an underused parking area and an informal dumping ground was turned into a public garden and has since grown into a community-managed urban-agriculture initiative. It relies on agroecological methods inspired by traditional practices from southern Tunisia — palm fronds, for instance, are used to shade young plants from extreme heat. What makes the case notable is that it is still running four years after the original intervention ended.
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BEWoluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium
A Brussels example of "meanwhile" use: 2.5 hectares awaiting housing development are opened for a few years as a site for urban agriculture, biodiversity and community activity. Meadows, orchards, wetland, woodland and aromatic gardens on the site are used as they are, layering farming, nature observation and education on one plot.
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HKHong Kong, Hong Kong
A campus rooftop farm the University of Hong Kong has run since 2013. Hong Kong imports over 98% of its fresh vegetables, and the farm is framed as a way for city dwellers to reconnect with food production and nature, fostering environmental responsibility through organic and sustainable practice.
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NPKahare (near Kathmandu), Nepal
A foundation on the outskirts of Kathmandu that builds a community-wide cycle around an organic and biodynamic farm, combined with a school, medical care, a café and a workshop. Cows and chickens are kept, and food waste and manure are routed through composting and biogas to supply the farm's own fertiliser.
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EETallinn (Põhja-Tallinn), Estonia
Tallinn's largest and best-equipped citizen garden, at the corner of Kolde pst and Ehte tn on the Putukaväil (Pollinator Highway) green corridor in North Tallinn. Built out in spring 2024 on the foundation of a smaller garden that had run on the same site for five years, it offers raised beds, individual plots, a greenhouse and fruit trees. Its stated aim is to give city dwellers the joy of collective gardening while strengthening environmental awareness and a sense of community.
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LVRiga, Latvia
A citizens' initiative that in 2020 turned a privately owned vacant lot — left derelict after the demolition of a Soviet-era sports palace/ice arena — into a garden held under temporary use. It opened to the public in spring 2021 and combines 150 planting-box plots with wildflower meadow and picnic/rest zones. It doubles as a venue for cultural and educational events and draws over 4,000 visitors a summer.
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UAKyiv (Podil), Ukraine
A community garden that opened in spring 2025 in Kyiv's historic Podil district — the first of its kind in the city centre — in the middle of wartime. Residents and volunteers cleared a plot that had sat walled off since a building was demolished there in 1985, and turned it into a garden with raised beds, rainwater collection, compost bins and a tool shed. It was formally opened in May 2025.
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SILjubljana (Resljeva cesta, Tabor), Slovenia
A landmark 'meanwhile use' project: from 2010 to 2022 an unbuilt, municipally owned construction site on Resljeva cesta in central Ljubljana served as a community garden. Some 40 plots on 650 m² supported not only growing but public talks, cultural events and ecological learning. It wound up in 2022 when the city began building non-profit housing on the site.
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RSBelgrade (Slanci), Serbia
Belgrade's first formally organised garden community. Founded by two NGOs, it divides a private plot in the village of Slanci — about 9 km from the city centre — into individual allotments farmed on organic principles. Belgrade already had well over 100 hectares of informal gardens, some occupying other people's land for 30 years or more (one estimate puts allotment use at about 125 ha in 2012); Baštalište was the first attempt to replace that with an open call, allocated plots and shared rules. Sources date its founding to either 2012 or 2013.
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LKColombo (southern suburbs), Sri Lanka
A small patch of degraded wasteland used as a dumping ground, regenerated from 2013 by the environmental NGO ECO-V. Soil was rebuilt by composting organic waste, and the site was divided into two zones — an 'Eco Garden' urban forest and a 'Metta Garden' for pollinators and insects — combining a butterfly garden of native host plants with organic vegetable beds.
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HRZagreb, Croatia
Launched by a mayoral decision of 4 April 2013, the scheme develops city-owned arable land and lends plots to residents free of charge for growing vegetables, berries, medicinal herbs and flowers for their own use. It started from three locations in spring 2013, reached 12 by 2017, and now covers 14 gardens, more than 2,152 plots and 23.03 hectares. Growing to ecological principles is required across all sites, with plot inspections and soil analyses.
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KZAstana, Kazakhstan
A school-garden movement in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana. The Slow Food Community of Astana Urban Producers, led by agronomist Aida Serik, has created 20 school gardens, while in parallel the Bulat Utemuratov Foundation's 'Green School' project has built greenhouses at 19 public schools and one college. Both were reported in January 2025 as work of roughly the previous three years; no exact start year is stated.
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BGSofia, Bulgaria
A pioneering citizens' gardening project in Bulgaria, started in 2012 by a handful of enthusiasts, with its first communal garden in the Nadezhda district. The garden it opened in 2015, Градина заДружба, is now the longest-running community garden in Sofia. Today the initiative carries the city's largest network of community gardens — some 6,000 m² in total, with around 100 gardeners.
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GETbilisi, Georgia
A small community garden in the Georgian capital started by Salome Popiashvili, who first encountered community gardening in Berlin on a Georgian Youth for Europe project and, back home, obtained land free of charge by putting a proposal to the municipality. Community gardening is not yet widespread in Georgia, and this is one of the few working examples (as reported in October 2021).
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LTVilnius (Pilaitė), Lithuania
A residents' garden next to the Beepart creative workshop on Vydūno Street in the Pilaitė district of western Vilnius. Started by the architect Laura Petruškevičiūtė, it has grown from six beds to 33. The number of urban gardens in Vilnius is rising quickly, and gardening is increasingly treated as one of the city's urban-development tools.
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ZMLusaka, Zambia
An urban garden project launched in January 2026 in Zambia's capital. Working through existing community groups in the densely populated, flood- and drought-exposed sub-districts of Kanyama, Chawama and Matero, it sets up demonstration gardens and delivers training in climate-resilient growing. The project runs to January 2027, with scale-up envisaged if it works.
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BGSofia, Bulgaria
The first garden of "Urban Gardening – Sofia", a pioneering Bulgarian city-gardening network founded by volunteers in 2012. Opened in 2015, it is the network's oldest garden still in operation in Sofia.
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RSNovi Sad, Serbia
Novi Sad's first organised allotment garden, opened by the NGO Poljosvet in April 2013. It sits in the Vidovdansko neighbourhood about 6 km from the centre; 13 ares of land are divided into 50 m² plots worked by members. Irrigation uses well water rather than chlorinated tap water, and members follow organic growing methods.
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UYMontevideo, Uruguay
A City of Montevideo garden project under the motto "sowing the neighbourhood, harvesting community". At the Espacio Modelo garden, students work the beds while discussing the environment, water use, recycling and citizen innovation.
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LKColombo, Sri Lanka
Metta Garden is a plot of degraded land in Colombo that the Sri Lankan environmental NGO Eco Friendly Volunteers (ECO-V) has been converting into a garden since 2013. Grounded in the Buddhist idea of metta (loving-kindness), it combines mixed vegetable beds, a butterfly corner, pollinator planting and areas left to native wild plants. Opened to the public in 2015, it now serves as a training site for organic growing and biodiversity.
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INMumbai, India
A pilot in which Mumbai's municipal corporation (BMC), working with the citizens' group Swachh Parle Abhiyan, turns roughly 2,230 m² of dead space under a flyover near the airport into plots for residents. Announced on 22 February 2026, it is notable for putting the long, awkward strips of land under elevated roads — abundant in cities and usually unused — to work as citizen allotments.
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TZDar es Salaam, Tanzania
An urban farming training programme launched in 2026 in Kigamboni District, Dar es Salaam, run by the environmental NGO AGENDA with the district authority. It teaches farmers organic, water-thrifty growing and pairs tree planting with food-and-farming learning for schoolchildren.
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MZMaputo, Mozambique
Phase II of an agroecological transition project for urban farming in three districts of Maputo, Mozambique, from 2013 to 2016. It combined a shift to chemical-free growing with strengthening producer unions and building routes to market.
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PKLahore, Pakistan
A pilot community garden started by the Institute for Art and Culture in Sher Shah Colony, a low-income neighbourhood off Raiwind Road in Lahore. Sited at a government girls' high school, the workshops covered health and nutrition, the economics of growing your own, and season-appropriate vegetables.
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FIHelsinki, Finland
An allotment garden at Kalervonkatu 1a in the Kumpula district of Helsinki, Finland, established in 1927 and the second oldest allotment garden in the city. It has 268 allotments with an average size of about 300 m². The land is leased from the City of Helsinki and the site is run by the Kumpula Allotment Garden Association (Kumpulan Siirtolapuutarhayhdistys r.y.), which lets the plots to its members. The area is regarded as culturally and historically valuable.
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GBLondon, United Kingdom
A community garden in Vauxhall, in the London Borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom. It was created in 1986 on a derelict site, developed from an earlier vegetable garden that residents had made themselves. It adjoins Bonnington Square, which has a community garden of its own, and can be accessed from it.
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TRIstanbul, Turkey
A collective garden run by students and academics on the South Campus of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, started in spring 2012. It grew out of a 2011 occupation protesting the commercialisation of campus food and rising food prices, where participants proposed producing their own food, and it grew vegetables from heirloom seed without synthetic chemicals. After the 2013 Gezi Park protests it influenced a wave of similar community gardens across Istanbul.
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FRBesançon, France
Starting from the first garden opened in 1991 by Jean-Guy Henckel at Chalezeule near Besançon, France, the model of jardins d'insertion — organic market gardens that employ unemployed and precariously placed people — spread across the country, and the national network was formally constituted on 13 July 1999. The vegetables produced are delivered as weekly baskets to subscriber members, and the workers receive socio-professional support alongside the farming. Its distinguishing feature is that one mechanism is asked to serve both city residents' food supply and people excluded from the labour market.
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CHGeneva, Switzerland
A producer–consumer cooperative started in Geneva in 1978 by the agronomist Reto Cadotsch and others, growing organic vegetables year-round for its member households under a model of agriculture contractuelle de proximité: members pay in advance to underwrite production and receive the harvest as a weekly bag. It is known as a forerunner of community-supported agriculture in Europe. In 2008 organisations working on the same model formed the Fédération romande d'agriculture contractuelle de proximité (FRACP), which had around 20 members.
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DEGöttingen, Germany
A garden started in 1996 in the Geismar district of Göttingen, Germany, by immigrant non-German families, and constituted in 1998 as the association Internationale Gärten e.V. Göttingen. Its distinguishing move was to translate the ideas of intercultural learning, international understanding and integration into a place where people work the soil and grow vegetables together, and it became the starting point for the form known in German-speaking countries as interkulturelle Gärten.
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CDKinshasa, DR Congo
An urban market gardening station in the Ndjili commune of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Together with Lutendele it is described as one of the largest intensive urban agriculture sites in Kinshasa, producing leafy vegetables for the city.
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MWBlantyre, Malawi
A cluster of vegetable gardens around the Soche Wastewater Treatment Plant in Blantyre, Malawi, irrigated with the plant's effluent. Growers cultivate three exotic Brassica varieties alongside three indigenous leafy crops — pumpkin, sweet potato and amaranth leaves.
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EETallinn, Estonia
An allotment garden the city billed as Tallinn's largest community garden, built as an extension of an existing community space. Construction began on 1 August 2023 with a February 2024 completion deadline. It has raised beds and garden plots, a greenhouse, compost bins, water connections, street lighting, toilets and a roofed gathering area.
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KZAstana / Almaty, Kazakhstan
An effort to spread greenhouses and gardens through schools in Kazakhstan's capital Astana and in Almaty. The Bulat Utemuratov Foundation runs it as Zhasyl Mektep (Green School) across 36 schools, teaching children healthy-living habits and the basics of planting and growing. In Almaty the fourth season is under way with 16 pupil-managed greenhouses. In parallel, the Slow Food Community of Astana Urban Producers has created 20 school gardens over three years.
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GBCoventry, United Kingdom
Coventry City Council is opening underused council-owned land across the city so residents can create food-growing and wildlife gardens. Piloted as "Coventry Grows" in 2024, the citywide roll-out was announced in March 2026, prioritising neighbourhoods short of green space.
coventry.gov.uk
MACasablanca, Morocco
An 1,600 m² educational garden in Casablanca irrigated with treated wastewater. In the water-stressed Greater Casablanca region it demonstrates in practice that treated effluent can water green space and, in some cases, produce food — and takes that message to schools, government and business.
climate-chance.org
USRancho Cordova, California, United States
A nonprofit farming about 55 acres of county-owned land inside the American River Parkway at Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento, as an organic farm and food-and-environment education centre. It marked 25 years in 2025. Alongside growing, it restores riparian habitat, and the site includes classrooms, a certified kitchen, a native plant nursery and an outdoor classroom.
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UAKryvyi Rih, Ukraine
In Kryvyi Rih, one of Ukraine's main mining and steel cities, a civic initiative has tended a corner of a city park as a garden for eight years. Fruit trees and vegetables are grown in separate sections, with an information board naming the crops so park users can see food growing in the city.
enefcities.org.ua
ZATsakane, Ekurhuleni, South Africa
A permaculture food garden on 800 m² of school grounds in Tsakane, east of Johannesburg, started in September 2020 by two young men who lost their income in the Covid-19 lockdown. Vegetables, herbs, medicinal plants and edible flowers are grown together; the garden supplies about 20 nearby households and local chefs while teaching growing skills to young people.
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NPLalitpur, Nepal
A UN-Habitat programme run with Nepali municipalities. After implementation in Madhyapur Thimi in 2021–2022 it moved its focus to Lalitpur Metropolitan City from 2023, building demonstration farms, training trainers, drafting urban-farming guidelines and developing the "Urban Kasera" mobile app. It deliberately pairs rooftop food production with household waste management and rainwater harvesting.
nepal.un.org
USBrooklyn (Brownsville), New York, United States
The NYC Health Department's first community garden, announced in April 2026 and opened to the public in May. It sits behind the Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center in Brooklyn and is designed so that residents can harvest food for free in the same place they access the department's health programming.
nyc.gov
USNew Haven, Connecticut, United States
New Haven's 19 city-owned community gardens and micro-farms were run for years by the nonprofit Gather New Haven, which handed them back to the city in April 2026 as its finances deteriorated. No replacement operator has been settled; the city's Food Policy Council is forming a working group and weighing whether to ask the city to contract the work out as a two-year pilot.
newhavenindependent.org
SKBratislava (Rača, Krasňany), Slovakia
Opened on 22 May 2013, this was the first citizen-run community garden in Bratislava. What set it apart is where it is: not in the old town but inside Krasňany, a socialist-era housing estate, on an unused strip behind the local health centre. It showed that people living in prefab flats could have a plot of their own, and became the starting point for the many community gardens that have since spread across Bratislava's districts.
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NAWindhoek (Goreangab), Namibia
Started in 2018 on roughly three hectares of municipal land at Windhoek's north-western edge, next to the informal settlements of Goreangab. The point is to work out permaculture methods that survive Namibia's harsh dry climate and hand them to residents. It combines three things on one site — individual plots, a production centre making compost, seedlings and natural pest repellents, and a training centre — so it functions as an urban-agriculture training hub rather than just a garden.
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LULuxembourg, Luxembourg
Five neighbourhood gardens the City of Luxembourg opened one by one, starting with Bonnevoie-Kaltreis in 2013 and ending with Grund in 2018. Residents manage each one, and all of them are restricted to organic growing — no pesticides, chemical fertilisers or GMOs. They are designed as gardens for the people of a given neighbourhood, and several sit in the dense valley quarters of the old city (Grund, Pfaffenthal, the Pétrusse valley) where houses have no gardens of their own.
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SKBratislava, Slovakia
Mobile community gardens on Bratislava's idle plots, started in 2013 by residents inspired by a community garden in Amsterdam. The first garden on Sasinkova Street ran 2013–2015 on a private plot leased for three years; in spring 2015 the group opened a garden on Pionierska Street on an abandoned vineyard in cooperation with the city (90 wooden boxes, 100–110 participants), and in spring 2016 a garden in a school courtyard on Karpatská Street (50 boxes, ten of them for the school).
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USBoston, United States
A community garden for students and staff that began in summer 2026 on a triangular plot behind University Hall at UMass Boston. Eight raised beds grow tomatoes, lettuce, squash, rosemary, peppers and amethyst basil. The university calls 2026 its pilot year for the project.
umb.edu
FRToulouse, France
A shared garden that opened on 11 March 2026 in the Croix-Daurade neighbourhood of Toulouse, on the site of a demolished building. The design deliberately keeps the existing trees and vegetation, limiting full-ground cultivation and placing planters only on the previously built-over areas. It took about half a year from the autumn 2025 consultation to the residents forming their own association.
metropole.toulouse.fr+1
USBaltimore, United States
A teaching farm inside Baltimore's Farring-Baybrook Park, between the Curtis Bay and Brooklyn Homes neighbourhoods. It grows vegetables and produces honey while running growing classes for residents, a business incubator for aspiring urban farmers, and mental-wellness programming built around plant care — a working farm that doubles as an educational centre.
wmar2news.com+1
MKSkopje (Novo Lisiče), North Macedonia
The first citizens' community garden in North Macedonia, in the Novo Lisiče park in Skopje. The civic association The Green Ark prepared it over two years from late 2019, opened it in August 2021, and opened it to the general public on 2 May 2022. The name "Bostanie" fuses "bostan" (a Turkish-derived word for cucurbits) with "vostanie" (uprising).
zivotnasredina.skopje.gov.mk+1
MEPodgorica, Montenegro
A volunteer-run community garden in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. Its symbiotic plan combines a food forest with market-garden areas, and the official site describes it as the largest ground-level community garden in Europe. Growing follows permaculture methods — regenerative agriculture, no-dig beds and cover cropping.
urbanabasta.me
MGAntananarivo, Madagascar
In Antananarivo, unused ground at public primary schools is turned into vegetable gardens that feed the school canteen while teaching farming to children and parents. Run by the Axian Foundation and First IMMO together with the Urban Municipality of Antananarivo, the programme had completed 27 sites since 2021. At the five schools inaugurated together in June 2023, 660.5 m² of prepared ground had already yielded 312.5 kg of vegetables from three of them.
fondation-axian.org+1
MNUlaanbaatar, Mongolia
An urban gardening extension programme run in Ulaanbaatar from 1992 by the Poverty Alleviation Study Centre during Mongolia's economic transition. Working out of the Metropolitan Library, it taught growing and distributed inputs; participating families rose more than twentyfold, from 850 in 1990/91 to 21,000 by 1996.
cityfarmer.org
HRZagreb, Croatia
Zagreb's municipal allotment scheme, launched by a mayoral decision on 4 April 2013, divides city-owned land into plots where residents grow vegetables, berries, herbs and flowers for their own use. It has spread to 16 locations — including Stenjevec, Novi Zagreb (east and west), Peščenica-Žitnjak, Sesvete, Trnje, Maksimir and Podsused-Vrapče — with more than 2,252 plots. The city issues a gardening manual that encourages organic practice.
zagreb.hr+1
KZAstana, Kazakhstan
A project of the Bulat Utemuratov Foundation that installs year-round greenhouses in Kazakh schools. Nineteen public schools and one college now have one, where pupils grow vegetables, berries and herbs. It runs in Astana and Almaty; in Almaty 16 greenhouses are tended by pupils from primary to secondary age. For city children unused to working the soil it is often a first experience of growing, and some go on to run experiments and write up their results. In Astana the Slow Food community 'Astana Urban Producers' — represented by agronomist and activist Aida Serik — has developed school gardens over three years.
cityfarmer.info
ISReykjavík (Seljahverfi, Jaðarsel), Iceland
A resident-run urban farm at Jaðarsel in the Seljahverfi district of Reykjavík. It was founded in 2014 by volunteers and residents of Seljahverfi and Breiðholt on the site of a school-garden project the city had discontinued. It describes itself as the only place in the city where you can rent both an outdoor plot (20 m² and larger) and a place inside a greenhouse. Organised around organic, sustainable growing and health, its purpose is community as much as cultivation: regular events, teaching days and an end-of-summer produce market.
seljagardur.is+2
BASarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The City of Sarajevo turned a decaying, underused plot into a garden and park combining sensory plantings with native species. Centred on supporting children and young people with developmental disabilities, it is described as a pioneering initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was delivered with the Sarajevo Regional Development Agency (SERDA), the Municipality of Novo Sarajevo and a local vocational school. It was labelled a URBACT Good Practice in October 2024.
urbact.eu
CMYaoundé (Biyem-Assi), Cameroon
An urban agriculture programme (2013–2014) in the working-class district of Biyem-Assi in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé, aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity among residents. Because arable land is scarce and soil contamination common in the city, Alternatives brought in the soil-free (hors-sol) growing techniques it had developed on Montreal rooftops and spread them among neighbourhood women's groups, market vendors, and school pupils and their families. The work combined building vegetable gardens and a school garden with income-generating activity, a training programme and educational materials.
alternatives.ca+1
JMKingston, Jamaica
A project fitting inner-city schools and community sites in Kingston with gardens backed by rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation. It responds to the fact that the city's once-reliable rains have faltered with climate change, making it hard to grow without infrastructure that stores water and releases it slowly. More than JM$14 million (about US$90,000) went into four high schools, the Abilities Foundation and the Greenwich Town community, providing rainwater tanks, hydroponic greenhouses, container gardens and water-purification systems. Since starting in 2018, CityAdapt reports benefiting more than 130,000 people across Jamaica, El Salvador and Mexico.
cityadapt.com+1
CYNicosia, Cyprus
In central Nicosia, a citizens' group turned a derelict plot into a sustainable shared garden. It started from winning the Climathon Nicosia competition in October 2019, and hundreds of volunteers helped build it. Beyond growing, it sets out to build community, practise a circular economy that treats waste as material, and create a dynamic urban food-sharing ecosystem. It runs learning programmes for local youth on open-source technology and sustainability, and supports women refugees in agricultural entrepreneurship. The project was shortlisted for the EU's New European Bauhaus Awards in the 'Regaining a sense of belonging' category.
citycenters.eu+1
PAPanama City, Panama
A school- and community-garden programme run by the Municipality of Panama through the Resilience and Climate Change unit of its Directorate of Environmental Management, announced by the city in September 2024. It teaches children and residents small-scale agriculture and works to fold growing fruit, vegetables and herbs into daily routines. Its stated aims are food security, healthy and sustainable eating habits, and community cooperation.
mupa.gob.pa+1
DOSanto Domingo (Distrito Nacional), Dominican Republic
In the Dominican capital, the National District city hall (ADN) and the ministries of Agriculture, Environment and Women signed an agreement in March 2021 to create 30 urban gardens — ten in each of the district's three electoral divisions. Neighbourhood associations and individuals, especially women, single mothers and young people, are the intended growers, using both vertical and horizontal methods to raise vegetables, medicinal and aromatic herbs and ornamental plants. Stated aims are to increase availability of and access to healthy food, create outlets in municipal markets and plant-exchange points, foster a culture of peace and healthy coexistence in neighbourhoods, and generate jobs and income. It forms part of the Urban Gardens Programme run by the Agriculture Ministry's Women's Agricultural Sector Office (OSAM).
mujer.gob.do+1
ALTirana, Albania
An urban-farming school in central Tirana, taught in a greenhouse built on the rooftop terrace of the Tulla Culture Centre. It began in 2022 with funding from GIZ Albania and holds growing classes every Thursday evening, raising roughly 300 plants a season — tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach — chosen to suit the local climate. Tirana once had a culture of families keeping small allotments, but it faded as green space was taken over by construction. The school gives equal weight to recovering those lost skills and to building connections between people.
etf.europa.eu
FJSuva and other urban areas, Fiji
A national home-gardening programme launched by Fiji's Ministry of Agriculture in March 2020 as part of its COVID-19 response. With lockdowns in Suva and Lautoka making food harder to obtain, the ministry distributed seed packs of short-cycle crops to households in urban and peri-urban areas, starting on 30 March 2020. A scheme buying seed from local farmers and redistributing it to city residents was also set up, so that emergency support fed into something households could keep growing rather than ending as one-off food relief. A booklet with the National Food and Nutrition Centre, 'Grow your own Food', covers both cultivation and nutrition.
futureoffood.org+1
GBKeighley, United Kingdom
A yard behind the Salvation Army church hall and community centre in Keighley, West Yorkshire, turned into a productive garden over about a year by a volunteer, Matthew. Potatoes grow in an old baby bath and chillies in a wellington boot; carrots, peas, strawberries, herbs and pumpkins fill the rest. The produce supplies the Salvation Army food bank, meals for homeless people, the Victory Programme budgeting-and-cookery class and the centre's café. Matthew came to the charity after rehab, joined the cookery class, and was asked to take on the garden while volunteering at the food bank, with no prior gardening experience.
salvationarmy.org.uk+1
GBSwindon, United Kingdom
In Swindon, Wiltshire, South Swindon Parish Council has opened disused allotment plots as a community garden for Ukrainian refugee families; in August 2026 councillors themselves joined a work session. The council manages 584 plots across 14 sites (expanding to about 604) against a waiting list of more than 400 people, so converting idle plots to community use both cuts the queue and brings empty ground back into cultivation.
swindon24.co.uk+1
USMemphis, United States
In the Raleigh neighbourhood of Memphis, Tennessee, a two-acre plot behind Star Academy Charter School was turned into a $1.5 million learning farm, Urban Roots of Tennessee, reported in August 2026. It includes a year-round greenhouse, a freshwater eco pond, a pollinator garden and learning beds, and serves pupils from pre-K to 8th grade. The school frames it as going beyond standardised-test preparation to teach children "how they can compete in these increasingly globalized and automated communities".
wreg.com+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Blueberry Farm Tokyo, opened in 2023 in Higashi-Koiwa, Edogawa City, by Yano Takayuki, the 17th generation of a farming family whose land dates to the Edo period. He converted a komatsuna field left unworked after his grandfather's stroke. Around 1,000 potted bushes carry 35 established varieties plus four under trial — among the widest selections in Tokyo — drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Georgia and North Carolina among others. The June-to-August season was chosen deliberately to coincide with children's summer holidays; the farm is 35 minutes from Tokyo Station.
tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp+1
NZWellington, New Zealand
An urban farm and composting initiative in Wellington started in 2015. Staff collect food scraps from offices and apartments by e-bike, hand-process them into compost, and use it on their own farm. The farm grows vegetables on Māori-led organic and regenerative principles, donating most of the harvest to community groups supporting people in need. The society was renamed Kaicycle Incorporated Society in 2018.
kaicycle.org.nz+1
MTFloriana, Malta
An urban garden inside the hub that Friends of the Earth Malta established in Floriana. Built as a place where residents and activist groups pool environmental knowledge and skills, it hosts gardening and climate-adaptation workshops in the garden itself, and its Bee Cause Hub lends out honey-harvesting equipment to connect visitors to pollinators.
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LULuxembourg, Luxembourg
Community gardens in the Grünewald quarter of Luxembourg City's Kirchberg district. After temporary vegetable plots proved popular, Fonds Kirchberg developed more permanent gardens. Cultivation follows ecological criteria — no pesticides, chemical fertilisers or genetically modified organisms.
fondskirchberg.public.lu
TTCouva, Trinidad and Tobago
A community greenhouse run by residents in the Cashew Gardens neighbourhood within the Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Corporation of Trinidad. Short-cycle crops are grown hydroponically, harvested rainwater is used for irrigation, and agricultural and household food waste is composted to recycle nutrients. It grew out of the neighbourhood's recycling work: outside funders and universities supply money and know-how, but residents do the daily growing.
habitat-tt.org+1
KHPhnom Penh, Cambodia
A project creating agroecological vegetable gardens in the yards of Phnom Penh's public schools, so that students in a city with very little green space can work with soil and learn how food and environment connect. It starts from the gap between the WHO's recommended 9 m² of green space per capita and Phnom Penh's 1.1 m².
eclosio.ong+1
JOAmman, Jordan
A project turning part of a large Amman park into a residents' garden. It is framed around three goals — raising green cover in the city, softening climate-change impacts and improving food security — and creates a place where residents and Syrian refugees cultivate together. It sits within the municipality's 2022–2026 strategic plan to establish 12 parks across the capital.
jordan.un.org
JOAmman, Jordan
The first urban-farming training centre in Jordan, sited in a city park in Amman. Built to strengthen food security amid climate change and disrupted supply chains, it gives residents a place to learn how to grow vegetables and fruit trees in the city. The preceding project laid out a 6,000 m² community garden in the city and recovered 3,600 endangered trees using the Miyawaki planting method.
undp.org+1
PYPilar, Paraguay
A garden network started in 2003 across four barrios of Pilar, a provincial city in southern Paraguay. Aimed at food and nutrition security, it spread by having residents themselves build fences and beds, record how they grew things, and pass the methods to neighbouring families. Distinctively, it paired well-building with educational stipends and scholarships so the gardens also became a route into further study. The project closed in 2022.
zimbabweparaguay.net
UALviv, Ukraine
The first public community garden in Lviv, western Ukraine, opened in 2018. Since the war began it has become a place where displaced people grow vegetables together, with the harvest turned into free meals for IDPs via a city bistro. UNDP Ukraine features it as one of the local initiatives sustaining food security during the war.
undp.org
ILJerusalem, Israel
A programme turning Jerusalem's vacant and neglected land into resident-tended gardens and green space, spanning over 120 acres. Alongside food growing, its pillars are tree planting, preservation of native vegetation and composting. Run jointly by the Jerusalem Foundation and the municipality's Department of Social Sustainability, it spans neighbourhoods across the city's religious and ethnic divides.
jerusalemfoundation.org
PAPanama City (Don Bosco / Los Robles), Panama
A community garden opened in 2020 by the local council of Panama City's Don Bosco district. A demonstration nursery beside the Los Robles community house teaches neighbours to grow food and to start their own home gardens. It began under the 'Don Bosco Verde' environmental programme, aimed at food security during the pandemic and at responsible consumption.
ensegundos.com.pa
SILjubljana, Slovenia
Ljubljana's municipally run allotment scheme. The city offers about 1,100 plots across several organised garden areas, leased to residents at EUR 0.70–1.00 per m² per year. Three 'learning gardens' provide free year-round instruction in ecological gardening, so the scheme hands over not just a plot but the practice that goes with it.
ljubljana.si
CRCurridabat (San José), Costa Rica
A community garden in Curridabat, in Costa Rica's greater San José area, created by three young residents on unused urban land. It pairs organic-growing and permaculture workshops with gatherings such as film nights and bonfires, under the idea that cultivating land harvests not only food but community.
segib.org
ESPuerto de la Cruz (Tenerife), Spain
The first community urban garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, laid out across 19,000 m² at Los Cachazos in the El Durazno neighbourhood. It provides seven accessible plots, is run by the council's department for a sustainable city and citizen participation, and is managed day to day by the association La Vereda. Councillor David Hernández describes it as a project to advance sustainability, citizen participation and food sovereignty while strengthening environmental education and community resilience to climate change.
rtvc.es
ESSoria, Spain
Twenty-four ecological urban garden plots created by the city of Soria on what had been a run-down industrial edge in the Los Royales district. Part of the European-funded BRERA urban-renewal programme, the project 'renaturalises' a site of more than 7,000 m² to promote biodiversity and social cohesion. Inaugurated on 27 August 2026, it enters service in spring 2027 and brings the municipal total to 104 plots.
sorianoticias.com
PLKraków, Poland
A community garden opened on 8 June 2021 in the courtyard of Kraków's city hall. The eleventh community garden in the city, it is unusual for sitting in the centre of town inside a government building's courtyard. It was set up with support from the European RU:RBAN programme, with residents and council staff planting vegetables and herbs together.
krakow.pl
PKKarachi, Pakistan
A citizen network in Karachi promoting organic urban growing in pots, on rooftops and in leftover spaces. Its core is the "learning garden": in schools it anchors a curriculum, and in homes it closes the loop by composting household organic waste back into the beds. In a city where vegetation covers only about 7% of the land area, it aims to grow both food and green space through residents' own hands.
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MZMaputo, Mozambique
A network of peri-urban farming cooperatives in the outskirts of Maputo, which grew out of the Gabinete das Zonas Verdes set up in April 1980 to address food shortages and land-tenure problems after independence. The União Geral das Cooperativas was formed in 1982–83 and by 1987 covered 181 member organisations with over 10,000 members. It is an early, large-scale case of a citizens' organisation — overwhelmingly of women — coming to supply a capital city with fresh food.
mozambiquehistory.net
SVSan Salvador, El Salvador
An urban and peri-urban agriculture programme launched in 2020 by the City of San Salvador and FAO in response to deepening urban food insecurity during COVID-19. Demonstration centres placed across the city act as places to see and learn, and from there the programme spreads know-how on family gardens, growing vegetables in small spaces and composting.
fao.org
SVSan Marcos, El Salvador
In the San Juan Bosco II neighbourhood of San Marcos, in the San Salvador metropolitan area, residents cleared a vacant lot that had become a dumping ground and turned it into a shared urban garden. The Cosechando Sonrisas programme supplies three months of training and inputs free of charge, and more than 50 households now grow vegetables on their own plots.
elsalvador.com
HNTegucigalpa, Honduras
A public programme in Tegucigalpa that turns urban spaces into productive growing areas to strengthen food security. Its core is a demonstration and training centre where people who will manage urban gardens are trained, so that the techniques spread out to school and neighbourhood gardens.
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MUPort Louis, Mauritius
An agroforestry project on Priest Peak, one of the hills above Port Louis, where planting began in March 2021. Four hundred endemic plants and fruit trees have gone into one hectare, bringing greenery and edible trees back to the hillside behind the city. Rather than a vegetable garden, it is an urban woodland-plus-fruit-trees space maintained with residents.
forena.mu
MACasablanca, Morocco
A citizen-run garden on the roof of the L'Uzine cultural centre in Casablanca's Aïn Sebaâ district. In a city with less than one square metre of green space per resident, it shows how an unused rooftop can be turned into a place for growing food and meeting neighbours.
ma.boell.org+1
NPMadhyapur Thimi, Nepal
A project in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality, Kathmandu Valley, that used rooftop farming to address food security, waste, water conservation and climate change at once. Its distinctive feature is treating urban agriculture less as a source of produce than as a way to cycle water and organic matter within the household.
unhabitat.org.np
QADoha, Qatar
A community garden run at the Micro-Farm inside Education City, Doha, where residents can register for a bed and grow their own food. The name Hadiqaa (حديقة) is Arabic for "garden". To make growing possible in a Gulf climate that nears 50°C in summer, it runs a year-round programme of workshops on soil, sowing, composting and winter vegetables, treating growing skills themselves as a shared asset.
hadiqaa.com+2
QADoha, Qatar
A former school courtyard in Doha — the Qatar Preparatory School — converted into a community garden open to residents. It opened on 13 November 2025 as an event tied to a Qatar Museums exhibition, designed so that visitors learn hands-on about growing vegetables in Qatar's climate, composting and cutting food waste. The enclosed courtyard also provides a microclimate that suits growing in a hot, windy setting.
qm.org.qa+1
ZWBulawayo, Zimbabwe
A shared garden in the Entumbane residential suburb of Bulawayo. Built on land set aside by the city council, a borehole and solar equipment added by the local MP, fifty residents divide the beds and grow vegetables. An example of a division of roles — the city supplies land and water, residents run the garden — holding up over time in a suburban setting.
cityfarmer.info
LALuang Prabang, Laos
A community enterprise founded in 2005 by a group of local residents in Ban Phong Van, within Luang Prabang town. Pooling land that risked going unused, it grows organic rice and vegetables while doubling as a practical training site for agriculture students and an education hub for the village — food production and visitor-facing farming side by side on the edge of a tourist city.
livinglandlao.org
NAWindhoek, Namibia
Rising food prices have driven a spread of backyard vegetable gardens and poultry keeping across Windhoek's Katutura settlements — Okahandja Park, Ongulumbashe and One Nation among them. For low-income households it cuts the grocery bill and brings in some cash, backed by government and Agribank training.
neweralive.na
MMYangon, Myanmar
The food-growing strand of UNDP's Urban Resilience Project, which works in eight of Yangon's most vulnerable townships. In Thanmada Kan Chay Ward, 27 women's groups proposed turning former dumpsites into farms. Straw-mushroom cultivation and container gardening are the mainstays; by early 2025 almost 900 urban farmers had been trained and 250 had received small business grants, with more than 4,000 people benefiting overall. The work responds to urban poverty in Yangon rising from 10% in 2017 to 43% — some 2.7 million residents — in 2023.
myanmar.un.org
BTDewathang, Bhutan
An urban farming effort begun in October 2020 in the towns of Samdrup Jongkhar district, south-eastern Bhutan. The local civil-society group Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative leases government and private land to run five urban farms and ten smallholdings where 30 farmers grow vegetables and mustard — 2.5 acres of each. Farmers received green netting, water storage tanks and ten metric tonnes of farmyard manure. The first harvest brought in Nu. 61,200 from 780kg of vegetables and 350 bundles of saag.
bhutanfound.org
USLong Island City, Queens, New York, United States
A roughly one-acre farm on the roof of the Standard Motor Building in Long Island City, Queens, run by the non-profit Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens, with children doing the growing and harvesting. Some 1,200 children took part in the 2025 season, producing over 4,500 pounds of food; the 2026 season opened on 23 April with targets of 1,500 children and 5,000 pounds. A $798,000 New York Power Authority investment added greenhouses, pathways, a covered wash-and-pack area with a freezer and an indoor classroom. Three-quarters of the harvest goes to the participating children and a quarter to local food banks.
qns.com
GTVilla Canales, Guatemala
Community gardens run in Villa Canales, south of the Guatemalan capital, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (MAGA) together with the municipality: 26 gardens involving 650 households, growing tomatoes, lettuce, beans and medicinal herbs alongside pineapple, strawberry and papaya. MAGA extends the same framework to family and school gardens — as of 2017, more than 5,000 family gardens, 164 school gardens and 6,500 community gardens through rural learning centres. In the metropolitan area the work also reaches zones 7, 8 and 15 of Guatemala City and San José Villa Nueva.
prensalibre.com
FRNice (L'Ariane), France
A shared garden opened at 1 rue Sicou in the L'Ariane district of eastern Nice, inaugurated at 3pm on 8 July 2026. The 500 m² tree-planted plot had long worried residents as a site of recurrent antisocial use and sanitary problems; the city rehabilitated it into twenty growing plots for neighbourhood associations, families and schools.
lessentiel.fr+1
JOAmman (Marka / Wehdat), Jordan
A project installing greenhouses on the rooftops of refugee and vulnerable households in Amman's Marka and Wehdat districts. Seventy-nine new greenhouses were completed in 2025, reaching 78 households and one preschool community garden. Families receive tools, seeds and training in garden management so the plots keep producing. Researchers at the University of Petra note the approach depends on lightweight planting materials, proper waterproofing and efficient irrigation.
anera.org+1
CZPrague (Krč, Prague 4), Czechia
A community garden opened on about five hectares of unused grassland beside the Velký háj woods in Krč, Prague 4. Inaugurated on 13 May 2026, it is described as the largest of its kind not only in Prague but in Czechia. Dozens of fruit trees and bushes have been planted, along with raised beds, a tool container and a fire pit; a wildflower meadow and vegetable plots are planned.
prazskypatriot.cz+1
CACalgary, Canada
A 30-acre urban farm on public land in southeast Calgary, formerly a construction site. Run by the settlement agency CCIS, it teaches newcomers to Canada how to grow food in southern Alberta's climate. Guided by Blackfoot Elder Herman Many Guns, its programming acknowledges the site as Treaty 7 territory. Soil restoration, biodiversity, composting, honey production and pollinator stewardship are central.
youngagrarians.org+2
KENairobi (Viwandani, Sinai), Kenya
In the Sinai area of Nairobi's Viwandani informal settlement, the resident youth group VICCO farms a small plot on the bank of the Ngong River. What began as a tiny riverside vegetable patch became a regularly producing garden over about two years with support from the HealthyFoodAfrica project. It is one of 21 community-organised groups mentored by APHRC.
healthyfoodafrica.eu
HTPort-au-Prince (Cité Soleil), Haiti
In Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, residents turned over an acre of former rubbish dump into a community garden. Started in 2012 by three local men, it now holds more than 500 brightly painted tyre gardens, plus a flower garden and a moringa nursery, and is described as Haiti's largest urban community garden.
sakala-haiti.org+1
BBNationwide (3 secondary schools), Barbados
Launched on 28 March 2025 at Grantley Adams Memorial School, this Barbadian school-garden project has students at three secondary schools grow their own food in low-cost self-watering wick beds made from five-gallon buckets, framed as a single lesson on food insecurity, nutrition and climate change.
paho.org
OMMuscat (nationwide), Oman
A citizen network of backyard growers begun in 2014 by ten enthusiasts in Muscat. Built on just two mechanisms — free seed distribution and peer support over WhatsApp — it spread across Oman and within a decade drew more than 4,500 families, bringing part of a heavily import-dependent food supply back into home yards.
muscatdaily.com+1
CIAbidjan (Yopougon, Adiopodoumé), Côte d'Ivoire
A youth training programme in organic urban farming launched in 2020 in Abidjan's Yopougon commune. On half a hectare, tomatoes and cucumbers are grown soil-free without chemical pesticides or fertilisers. Its distinguishing feature is that growing skills and entrepreneurship are taught as one continuous path, ending with graduates set up as independent producers.
actioncontrelafaim.org
SBHoniara, Solomon Islands
Twenty-four young women in Honiara opened 13 gardens in backyards across 12 wards. In a capital heavily dependent on markets for food, the work is framed as feminist climate action: composting, seed saving and organic pest control taken back into local hands.
shiftingthepowercoalition.org
VUPort Vila, Vanuatu
Thirteen gardens built across Port Vila for residents compulsorily evacuated from Ambae Island after the second eruption of the Manaro Voui volcano in mid-2018. Fabric planting containers speed growth so the produce can supplement food during their stay in temporary shelters — a case of restoring a place to grow, in the city, to people who left behind the customary land that fed them.
communityeconomies.org
JMKingston (Jones Town), Jamaica
A church-led urban farming project launched on 28 January 2010 in Jones Town, an inner-city area of Kingston. An abandoned, derelict housing-development lot was turned into cultivated ground, returning idle city land to green use, with the church taking on job creation in the neighbourhood as part of the work.
cityfarmer.info
BSNassau and other constituencies, Bahamas
Community gardens opened by the Bahamian non-profit ADO on land borrowed from churches and institutions. Aiming to cut dependence on imported food and put fresh local produce within reach, it targets one garden in each of the country's 39 constituencies by 2026; six are running now.
adobahamas.org
ISReykjavík, Iceland
A municipal scheme under which the City of Reykjavík rents out about 600 plots to residents on annual terms. Sites lie at seven locations inside the city — Vesturbær, Fossvogur, Laugardalur, Árbær, Grafarvogur, Kjalarnes and Meðalholt — plus Skammadalur in neighbouring Mosfellsbær. With a short, cool summer, growers concentrate on potatoes, cabbages and turnips.
reykjavik.is+1
XKGjakova, Kosovo
A permaculture garden run jointly by the environmental NGO Fondacioni Jeshil and SOS Children's Villages Kosovo. Phase one built roughly 100 sq m of raised beds with drip irrigation and planted 90 trees; phase two adds a staple-crop plot for potatoes plus fruit trees and berry bushes, feeding the residential site while serving as a local model.
kosovaideas.com
WSApia, Samoa
A national school-garden programme launched on 2 October 2025 by Education Minister Aiono Alec Ekeroma, with Avele College as the pilot school. It turns school grounds into living classrooms, linking national aims in education, health, food security and climate adaptation to the daily growing work of students.
samoanconservationist.com
MTGozo (Gozo General Hospital), Malta
An intergenerational community garden opened on 2 July 2025 in the grounds of Gozo General Hospital, run jointly by Gozo College Agius de Soldanis Middle School, GLOBE Malta, Nature Trust-FEE Malta and the hospital under the Ministry for Health and Active Ageing. Students and older residents work one plot together, growing fruit, vegetables and herbs alongside indigenous plants that draw bees and butterflies.
gozo.news+1
TONuku'alofa (Patangata), Tonga
A household-garden rebuilding effort begun by the Salvation Army after the January 2022 tsunami washed away the gardens and topsoil of Patangata, described as one of the lowest-income communities on Tongatapu. Residents fence their own ground and restart vegetable growing in the topsoil that is delivered to them.
saltmagazine.org.nz
BFOuagadougou (Tampouy), Burkina Faso
At a garden in Tampouy, north-west Ouagadougou, some thirty women aged 47 to 70 grow dry-season vegetables. The site began as a nursery under a tree-planting project of AMIFOB, an association of forestry workers; the women who raised the seedlings shifted to vegetables and have held the ground for decades. One 70-year-old has worked there for 36 years.
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BJCotonou (Cadjèhoun), Benin
An urban growers' cooperative on a 15-hectare market-garden site in the Cadjèhoun district of Cotonou, where 354 members each work a plot of about 1,200 sq m. The ground is divided into five zones, and the cooperative organises bulk input purchases, training and tontine credit. Its head describes it as a grouping of family enterprises bound by very strong solidarity.
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GYGeorgetown, Guyana
A wall-mounted kitchen garden built from discarded plastic bottles, taken into schools by the Green Economy Committee of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry. On 28 November 2020 the team worked with pupils at the David Rose School for the Differently Abled, planting thyme, celery, lettuce and calaloo, and said it would extend the project to fourth-form classes at other schools the following year.
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DZAlgiers (El-Harrach, cité AADL Boumati), Algeria
Algeria's first shared garden, opened in 2012. It turned an interstitial patch left inside a collective housing estate into plots for the residents, and it was designed from the start to keep an ornamental look — vegetables and fruit trees interplanted with herbs and flowers so the garden would not read as a break in the cityscape.
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DZZeralda / Douaouda (peri-urban Algiers), Algeria
The shared-garden work of Torba, a citizens' association operating around Algiers. Starting from the permaculture courses it began in 2014, it built a model of renting small parcels of 20–100 m² from municipalities and distributing them to people who want to grow. Gardens run at Zeralda, Douaouda and Blida, with Tiaret and Oran planned.
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SLFreetown, Sierra Leone
A roughly two-hectare community garden in a mangrove swamp in Freetown, worked by 35 men and women of a farmers' association on one plot per household. Soil and pests are handled with nothing but compost and ash — an example of the urban growing that has underpinned food and cash income in the post-conflict city.
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