Midori to No no Taikenjuku (Nerima Experience Farm)
Tokyo, Japan · Operator: 練馬区農業体験農園園主会 / 農家園主
Overview
Japan's first 'experience farm', opened in Nerima in 1996, where a farmer leads instruction. Unlike simple allotments, it combines high-quality growing experience with preservation of urban farmland, and became a model copied nationwide.
Citizen participation
A farmer-owner provides instruction, seeds and tools while residents grow many vegetable varieties on their own plots throughout the year.
Operating model
A fee-based experience farm run by a farmer, keeping farmland in production while opening it to urban residents with guidance, a model for preserving urban agriculture.
Impact
Spread across Japan as a way to curb the loss of urban farmland while sustaining farmers' livelihoods and citizens' food education and exchange.
Crops
- vegetables
Scale
1996年に練馬区南大泉に開園した全国第1号の農業体験農園。練馬区内に十数園が展開。
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