Kokopeli community garden (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Tbilisi, Georgia · Operator: サロメ・ポピアシュヴィリ（Salome Popiashvili）と有志のグループ
Overview
A small community garden in the Georgian capital started by Salome Popiashvili, who first encountered community gardening in Berlin on a Georgian Youth for Europe project and, back home, obtained land free of charge by putting a proposal to the municipality. Community gardening is not yet widespread in Georgia, and this is one of the few working examples (as reported in October 2021).
Citizen participation
Each gardener has their own plot but they share the watering on a rota. The garden also hosts picnics and educational events on environmental issues such as climate change and waste reduction, which draw people who do not hold a plot. Kitchen leftovers go into a compost pile and come back to the beds as fertiliser.
Operating model
Lacking the money to buy land, the group put a project proposal to the municipality explaining why the garden would benefit the city, and was given the land free of charge on condition that it observe environmental protection rules.
Impact
Georgia had no entry at all in this database until now. At a maximum of six plots this is about as small as a community garden gets, yet it shows the model working with only three ingredients: free use of municipal land, a shared watering rota and a compost pile for kitchen waste. The route by which the land was obtained — bringing back a model seen abroad and proposing it to the city — is easy for others in the same position to copy.
Crops
- トマト
- バジル
- キュウリ
- レタス
- ブロッコリー
- 花
- ハーブ
Scale
現在4人が自分の区画を持ち、翌シーズンにあと2人が加わる見込み。広さの制約から区画は最大6つまで。
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