Hadiqaa community garden in the Qatar Preparatory School courtyard (Doha)

A former school courtyard in Doha — the Qatar Preparatory School — converted into a community garden open to residents. It opened on 13 November 2025 as an event tied to a Qatar Museums exhibition, designed so that visitors learn hands-on about growing vegetables in Qatar's climate, composting and cutting food waste. The enclosed courtyard also provides a microclimate that suits growing in a hot, windy setting.

At the launch on 13 November 2025 guided outdoor tours ran every 15 minutes, with a composting demonstration and hands-on planting by those attending. Entry was free with no registration, so local residents themselves put in the first plants. Since then Hadiqaa's members and volunteers have maintained it, and the courtyard hosts the recurring workshops on soil, seeds and cuttings, composting and winter vegetables.

The garden opened in collaboration with Hadiqaa as part of Qatar Museums' exhibition "Countryside: A Place to Live, Not to Leave". The cultural institution's exhibition programme supplied the site and the initial audience, while Hadiqaa handles day-to-day operation and the workshops. Sessions are charged at QR 150–300 each, covering part of the running costs.

Notable for opening an urban garden through a museum's exhibition programme. It creates a path from viewing a show to putting hands in soil, and on into the continuing workshops and membership garden. It also reads as a usable precedent for converting an unused enclosed space — a school courtyard — to growing.

This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.

• OfficialHadiqaa Community Garden Launch | Qatar Museums ↗qm.org.qa
• OfficialHadiqaa – Community ↗hadiqaa.com