Niigata City Agri Park
Niigata, Niigata, Japan · Operator: 新潟市（指定管理者運営）
Overview
Japan's first public educational farm, developed by Niigata City (opened 2014). Citizens and families experience growing, harvesting, livestock, and rice-flour pizza making to learn about food and farming.
Citizen participation
A public educational farm where children and adults experience vegetable growing and harvesting, cow milking, and rice-flour pizza making. Citizens, families, and schools use it to learn about farming and food.
Operating model
A public facility developed by Niigata City offering experience programs, lodging, and farmer training; an educational farm run under a designated-manager scheme.
Impact
Established as a food-education hub for urban residents, it pioneered the public educational farm linking agricultural experience with cultivation of future farmers.
Land tenure
A public facility owned and developed by Niigata City.
Crops
- vegetables
- rice
Scale
日本初の公立教育ファーム。栽培・収穫体験、酪農・畜産体験、宿泊コテージやキャンプサイトを備える。
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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