Urban Farm DB

Urban farming in Türkiye

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

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Yedikule Bostans (Historic Market Gardens)

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.

CommunityBiodiversityOrganic cycle+1

anfenglish.com+4

Rooftop
2020

The Peninsula Istanbul Rooftop Herb Garden

TRIstanbul, Turkey

A waterfront rooftop herb garden across four buildings in partnership with local urban farming collective Komsukoy, integrating sustainability into luxury hospitality.

CommunityFood educationOrganic cycle

forbes.com

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Yedikule Bostanlari (Seven Towers Horticulture Gardens)

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.

CommunityFood education

middleeasteye.net+1

Community garden
2012

Tarlataban, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

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.

CommunityFood educationCompost+1

en.wikipedia.org+1

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