Oishii Niwa (Aoi Biwako), Moriyama
Moriyama, Shiga, Japan · Operator: NPO法人碧いびわ湖
Overview
'Oishii Niwa,' run in Moriyama by NPO Aoi Biwako (focused on Lake Biwa conservation). Through home gardening, composting, and parent-child SDGs learning, citizens engage with food-farming and organic-resource cycling.
Citizen participation
'Oishii Niwa' lets citizens and families experience safe vegetable growing and composting. As part of Moriyama City's environmental-learning program, it runs parent-child SDGs learning and composting workshops.
Operating model
Run by NPO Aoi Biwako, which works on Lake Biwa conservation, in cooperation with the city's environmental-learning programs and the Moriyama Eco Park, as a participatory environment and food-farming education program.
Impact
Centered on composting and home gardening, it is rooted as a citizen activity linking children's and families' environment-and-food education with Lake Biwa watershed conservation.
Land tenure
Operates in cooperation with the city's environmental-learning hub (Moriyama Eco Park).
Crops
- vegetables
Scale
守山市のもりやまエコパーク周辺で展開。家庭菜園体験、コンポストづくり、親子SDGs学習を行うコミュニティガーデン的取組。
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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