Trädgård på Spåret (Garden on the Track)
Stockholm, Sweden · Operator: Trädgård på Spåret（市民ボランティアによる非営利アソシエーション）
Overview
A mobile community garden on a disused Stockholm railway track, started in 2012 and inspired by Berlin's Prinzessinnengärten and New York's High Line, where citizens farm collectively and create a hub for food and culture.
Citizen participation
Unlike conventional allotments with individual plots, the whole garden is tended collectively in self-organised small working groups. The association meets twice a week, with roughly 10–20 volunteers showing up, and also runs its own café and farmers' market and hosts events such as culture walks, concerts and DJ sets.
Operating model
A non-profit model sustained by volunteer-run collective management combined with income from its organic café and green market, membership and organic-growing courses.
Impact
Widely known as a model of citizens turning an unused urban gap-space into a place of greenery and food, it has become an emblem of Stockholm's community-gardening movement; built in wooden boxes, it can be relocated, exemplifying interim ('meanwhile') urban farming.
Land tenure
Operates as interim use of a disused railway track; built in wooden boxes so it can be relocated.
Crops
- 野菜
- ハーブ
- 食用花
- vegetables
- fruits
- flowers
Scale
ストックホルム・セーデルマルムのスカンストゥル付近の使われなくなった鉄道線路跡地に、木箱（移動可能なプランター）で展開する都市菜園。有機栽培学校・グリーンマーケット・市民菜園・オーガニックカフェの4機能を併設
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