Green School: school greenhouses in Kazakhstan
Astana, Kazakhstan · Operator: ブラット・ウテムラトフ財団（Bulat Utemuratov Foundation）
Overview
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.
Citizen participation
Pupils from primary to secondary age look after the greenhouses as practical work. Some schools run summer camps built around the greenhouse; others entered a school-grounds greening competition, using the grant to buy materials for vegetable gardens, orchards and ponds.
Operating model
A private foundation builds and donates the greenhouses to schools, where they supplement biology and ecology lessons; the foundation also funds a school-grounds greening competition.
Impact
In Kazakh cities with long winters, year-round greenhouses let food education continue through the school year. At twenty sites it gives urban children a structured first route into growing food.
Crops
- 野菜
- ベリー類
- ハーブ
Scale
公立学校19校と1つのカレッジ、計20施設に通年利用の温室を設置
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