Kawasaki Community-Exchange & Experience Farms
Kawasaki, Japan · Operator: 川崎市（経済労働局都市農業振興センター農業振興課）/ JAセレサ川崎
Overview
Kawasaki maintains an Urban Agriculture Promotion Center and develops varied farm-contact venues — citizen farms, instructor-led experience farms, community-exchange farms and pick-your-own farms. Through programmes like Asao green tourism it uses surviving urban farmland as a place of exchange and learning.
Citizen participation
Residents can rent plots at citizen farms to farm freely, and experience cultivation under farmer guidance at instructor-led experience farms run by JA and others. In Asao Ward's 'Asao Green Tourism', farm contact extends to pick-your-own farms as well.
Operating model
A public urban-agriculture policy overseen by the Urban Agriculture Promotion Center of Kawasaki's economic affairs bureau. The city develops citizen, experience and community-exchange farms and recruits users, operating in cooperation with JA Ceresa Kawasaki and others.
Impact
Within a designated city, combines varied farm schemes and JA cooperation to balance farmland conservation with resident exchange, harnessing urban agriculture for community development.
Crops
- 野菜全般
- 果樹
Scale
麻生区など市内に市民農園・体験型農園・観光農園を整備。川崎市都市農業振興センターが各種農園事業を所管
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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