Urban Farm DB

Urban farming in Spain

7 citizen-driven urban farms recorded in Spain. Each entry documents who runs it, how the land is held, and where the information came from — nothing is listed without a source.

Vacant lot
2004

Huerto del Rey Moro

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.

CommunityFood educationOrganic cycle+2

una.city+1

Community garden
1997

Network of Urban Allotments of Barcelona (Xarxa d'Horts Urbans)

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.

CommunityElderlyWelfare+2

ajuntament.barcelona.cat+1

Community garden
2011

Madrid Community Urban Gardens Network (Red de Huertos Urbanos Comunitarios de Madrid)

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.

CommunityFood educationOrganic cycle+1

wiki.ecolise.eu+1

Community garden

Madrid Agrocomposta Community Composting Program

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

CompostOrganic cycleFood education+1

link.springer.com

Community garden

El Robledo Community Composting

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

CompostOrganic cycleCommunity

sciencedirect.com

Vacant lot
2011

Hort Indignat de Poblenou (Barcelona)

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'.

CommunityDIYOrganic cycle+1

hortindignat2poblenou.wordpress.com+1

Community garden
Interim use2001

Can Masdeu (Barcelona, Spain)

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.

CommunityFood educationElderly

en.wikipedia.org

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