Manokko Agri Club community garden, Mano, Nagata Ward, Kobe
Kobe (長田区), Japan · Operator: まのっこアグリクラブ
Overview
A group based at a community garden in Mano, Nagata Ward, Kobe, where children and local residents learn hands-on how food, farming and the environment connect. Using a small garden inside a residential area, it runs a "sixth-industry" model covering not just growing and harvesting but processing and selling. Spent coffee grounds collected from local cafés are composted in a community composter and returned to the garden.
Citizen participation
Children and local residents learn hands-on how food, farming and the environment connect. Activities run beyond growing and harvesting to processing and selling — a "sixth-industry" model. Regular activity day is the 3rd Saturday, 15:00–17:00.
Operating model
Based on a small garden inside a residential district, run as a sixth-industry activity in which children experience the chain from growing through processing to sale. The source does not describe its finances.
Impact
The group emphasises letting people experience a cycle of "eat → return → grow" in their own neighbourhood rather than "eat → discard", and holds that children learning their vegetables' soil contains local resources gives them a way into thinking about environmental questions. The source gives no participation figures.
Land tenure
Crops
- vegetables
Scale
神戸市長田区苅藻通2-4-20。住宅地の中にある小さな菜園。面積は出典に記載がない。
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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