Yokkaichi Citizens' Vegetable Garden (Yokkaichi Agricultural Center)
Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan · Operator: 四日市市（四日市市農業センター）
Overview
A municipal citizens' garden run by the Yokkaichi Agricultural Center, renting 15 sqm plots to residents. It also offers parent-child farming, agri-welfare, and food education with the school-lunch center.
Citizen participation
Non-farmer citizens rent plots to experience vegetable growing. The agricultural center also runs parent-child farming classes, gardening courses, agri-welfare trial activities, and food education with the school-lunch center.
Operating model
A municipally run citizens' garden operated via the agricultural center. Plots are rented for an annual fee, alongside gardening classes and food-education / agri-welfare programs.
Impact
It serves as an entry point for residents to engage with farming, and around the renewed agricultural center it expands food education, agri-welfare, and community exchange.
Land tenure
Plots in a municipal facility are leased to residents for an annual fee (renewed yearly).
Crops
- vegetables
Scale
15 m² — 1区画15㎡（3m×5m）、使用料年4,400円。市内に複数の市民菜園を設置。農業センターは昭和32年開設、令和5年4月にリニューアル。
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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