Ujamaa Garden (Shin-Minatogawa Park)
Kobe (長田区), Japan · Operator: Sooo Good ながた／ウジャマー菜園運営
Overview
A community garden in Shin-Minatogawa Park, Nagata, run by a neighbourhood group as an edible park focused on organic growing and mutual aid.
Citizen participation
An edible-park-style shared garden teaching organic methods; members tend both plots and the whole site. Recruitment via Instagram. ‘Ujamaa’ means family / mutual aid / large farm in Swahili.
Operating model
Opened in the park by local group Sooo Good Nagata under Kobe’s edible-park push; sustained by plot fees and collective work.
Impact
Turns underused park space into intergenerational growing and learning, anchoring community in Nagata.
Land tenure
Edible-park use within an urban park
Crops
- vegetables
- fruit-trees
Scale
3.6 m² — 新湊川公園内。約3.6㎡／人、月3,500円。共同管理エリアあり
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