Zhuanghang Community Garden
Shanghai, China · Operator: Shanghai Clover Nature School & Pandscape Design
Overview
Completed July 2020, a large ~5.2-hectare community garden in Zhuanghang Town, Fengxian District. Drawing on the area's rice-farming identity, it is an open agricultural park centred on children's farming experiences and food education.
Citizen participation
A child-friendly farming-education space where children and families take part in rice planting, harvesting, nature observation and crop-growing. It leverages the area's strong rice culture to run food-education programs centred on rice.
Operating model
A public project designed and operated with Clover Nature School and Pandscape Design, realised as a local-government (Fengxian District / Zhuanghang Town) initiative and sustained through commissioned operation and public support.
Impact
Reframed peri-urban farmland and local agricultural culture as a learning space for residents and children, and became a leading example of extending Shanghai's community-garden movement from the dense inner city to the suburban/rural fringe.
Land tenure
Publicly developed land entrusted by local government to the designers/operators (Clover Nature School et al.) to run as a community agricultural park.
Crops
- rice
- vegetables
- fruit
Scale
52,000 m² — Total site ~52,000 m² (Phase I ~8,300 m²) on Nanting Road, Fengxian District; Zhuanghang is one of Shanghai's main rice-production areas, so the garden foregrounds rice and food education
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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