Urban farming in Switzerland
3 citizen-driven urban farms recorded in Switzerland. Each entry documents who runs it, how the land is held, and where the information came from — nothing is listed without a source.
Quartierhof Wynegg
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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Parc Bertrand urban vegetable garden (Geneva, Switzerland)
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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Les Jardins de Cocagne, Geneva
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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