Puerto de la Cruz's first community urban garden (Los Cachazos, El Durazno)

The first community urban garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, laid out across 19,000 m² at Los Cachazos in the El Durazno neighbourhood. It provides seven accessible plots, is run by the council's department for a sustainable city and citizen participation, and is managed day to day by the association La Vereda. Councillor David Hernández describes it as a project to advance sustainability, citizen participation and food sovereignty while strengthening environmental education and community resilience to climate change.

Applicants must be registered residents of Puerto de la Cruz, and the council says it gives priority to vulnerable groups and local residents. Enrolment for the first intake opened in January 2026. The plots are designed as spaces for cultivation, for meeting and for collective learning at the same time.

Built as a municipal project, with day-to-day management by the citizens' association La Vereda. Participants receive training in vocational, social and transferable skills, with improving their employment prospects after the project as an explicit aim. The budget has not been published.

Enrolment only opened in 2026, so no results — participant numbers or harvests — have been published yet. What distinguishes the scheme is that the plots are designed to be accessible and that participation is paired with vocational skills training.

The council owns the land and the project and entrusts day-to-day management to a citizens' association.

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• ArticlePuerto de la Cruz abre la inscripción para su primer huerto urbano comunitario de 19.000 metros — RTVC ↗rtvc.es