Yokohama Farm Parks (Midori Up Plan)
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · Operator: 横浜市（指定管理者による分区園・協働農園運営）
Overview
Yokohama’s Midori Up ‘farm parks’—eleven sites since Minamihonjuku Third Park (2013)—combine allotments and collaborative gardens so farmland conservation and citizen farming meet inside the park system.
Citizen participation
Paid individual/group allotments (lottery) plus collaborative plots where managers run events with neighbours and nurseries. Partly funded by Yokohama’s Midori tax for walk/bike-catchment farming.
Operating model
Public farm-in-park program under Yokohama Midori Up: former farmland becomes parks; designated managers run allotments and collaborative gardens.
Impact
Converts fragile urban farmland into parks and spreads allotment demand, neighbourhood exchange and environmental learning citywide.
Land tenure
City-built urban parks; allotment/collaborative farm ops entrusted to designated managers
Crops
- vegetables
- herbs
- flowers
Scale
市内11カ所（南本宿第三公園〜阿久和富士見小金台公園等）。公園面積0.1〜1.0ha、個人分区園20〜83区画規模。代表例：ハマヤク農園（深谷町ふれあい公園）
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