La Ferme du Chant des Cailles
Watermael-Boitsfort, Brussels, Belgium · Operator: ル・シャン・デ・カイユ（市民とプロ生産者による参加型の非営利団体）
Overview
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.
Citizen participation
A participatory project launched after the first residents' meeting in 2012, where professional growers work alongside neighbours and volunteers to tend shared garden plots, run a participatory grocery, keep chickens and host educational activities, outdoor film screenings, talks and festivities.
Operating model
Combines professional vegetable and sheep-dairy production with citizen participation, education and neighbourhood events, relocating part of the local economy through on-site production, processing (e.g. cheese), direct sales and a participatory grocery.
Impact
For over a decade it has supplied the neighbourhood with fresh food, green space and a place to meet and learn, becoming a model of citizen-led urban farming — while also highlighting the urban land tension between farming and social-housing plans.
Land tenure
Operates on public land, with its use contested against plans for social housing on part of the site.
Crops
- 野菜
- ハーブ・薬草
- 羊乳・乳製品
Scale
ブリュッセル南東部ワーテルマール＝ボワフォール地区の公有地で、野菜マーケットガーデン・乳用羊・薬草・市民共同菜園などを併設して運営
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