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AUMelbourne, Australia
Established in 1982 on a reclaimed 10-acre former landfill near Melbourne, CERES is an environment park and urban farm combining environmental education, urban agriculture, and social enterprise.
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JPTokyo, Japan
Operated by AgriMedia, Share Batake is one of Japan's largest networks of supported allotment gardens, letting beginners grow vegetables hands-free while also putting underused farmland to use.
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JPTokyo, Japan
Japan's first 'experience farm', opened in Nerima in 1996, where a farmer leads instruction. Unlike simple allotments, it combines high-quality growing experience with preservation of urban farmland, and became a model copied nationwide.
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FRParis, France
A shared-garden framework based on the City of Paris's 2003 'Main Verte' (Green Hand) charter, under which resident associations run gardens on city plots, committing to public access, events, composting and organic growing to spread social bonds and greenery.
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ZACape Town, South Africa
Founded in 1982, this Cape Town non-profit supports small-scale citizen farming in the townships. True to its name 'farmers of the home', it provides training and supplies so residents of poor areas can grow organic vegetables, underpinning food security and livelihoods.
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USSeattle, United States
Seattle's municipal community-garden program, P-Patch, dates to the 1970s. Residents grow food organically at sites across the city, and each garden's 'Giving Garden' donates its harvest to food banks.
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GBLondon, United Kingdom
A community resource in the London Borough of Lewisham for better mental health. In its green spaces people grow and cook food and make art together, a leading social-prescribing site supporting recovery and empowerment.
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USWashington, DC, United States
Founded in 2008 by two native Washingtonians, this non-profit transforms under-used land into 'kid-driven gardens' in majority Black, Latino and immigrant neighborhoods that lack safe green space. Children aged 2-19 learn food education and community-building through growing, cooking and a youth cooperative that sells produce. It has developed over 100 projects in DC and nationwide.
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JPNationwide, Japan
A nationwide effort based on MAFF's case collection of food education advanced by children's cafeterias working with communities and gardens. Local cafeterias link to plots, harvest experiences and nearby farmers so children grow, harvest, cook and eat together. It connects the food cycle, local production-consumption and food-loss reduction with creating safe places for children.
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JPFukuoka, Japan
A Fukuoka-based citizen group that has researched and spread the 'cardboard-box compost' method—decomposing kitchen waste using only microbes—for over two decades, turning household food scraps into compost within the neighborhood to build a 2-km-radius nutrient cycle.
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USSeattle, United States
A hyperlocal cycle in Seattle's Chinatown-International District that turns neighboring restaurants' food scraps into compost for the Danny Woo Community Garden—the area's only green space—supporting elderly immigrant gardeners growing culturally significant foods.
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NZAuckland, New Zealand
A neighborhood compost hub in Auckland's Kaipatiki that accepts residents' bokashi food scraps, turns them into compost for a teaching garden, and offers free workshops via Compost Collective in pursuit of the city's 2040 zero-waste goal.
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JPHino, Japan
A community garden in Hino City, Tokyo, started by citizens who believe 'kitchen waste is a treasure.' It collects and composts the kitchen waste of around 200 households and grows vegetables and flowers pesticide-free as a food-cycle garden. Naomi Shimpo studied its management and governance in detail in her 2021 and 2024 papers.
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JPNerima, Tokyo, Japan
Nerima created Japan's first agricultural experience farm in 1996 and is a pioneer of urban agriculture. The 'Nerima model', in which farmers act as instructors for residents, has spread nationwide, with over a dozen farms still operating in the ward. It is a leading model for using urban farmland as a place of learning and community exchange.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya's agriculture-welfare programme launched in 2021. Through farm work on local farmland it promotes employment and higher earnings for people with disabilities while conserving farmland and fostering disability understanding. Centred on the 'Setasora' hub farm, it is a public-private urban welfare farm.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya provides a range of official ways for residents to engage with urban farming: Family Allotments (~10 sqm fully equipped plots), harvest and planting experiences at Fureai farms, a JA farmers market for 'Setagaya-sodachi' produce, and a map of about 110 farm stands.
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JPYokohama, Japan
Under its Midori-Up Plan, Yokohama develops citizen farms and harvest-experience farms and, since 2014, runs the 'Yokohama Farm Expedition' agri-tour. It officially expands opportunities for residents to engage with farming while conserving farmland that remains in the large city.
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JPNagoya, Japan
The Nagoya Agricultural Center (nicknamed 'dela Farm'), an agricultural park opened in 1965 and fully renovated in 2024, serves as a hub where residents deepen their understanding of farming through hands-on growing at its Citizen Garden and other municipal farms across the city.
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JPFukuoka, Japan
Fukuoka develops municipal 'refresh' farms and instructor-led experience farms to support residents' farming activity for soil contact, health, food education and social interaction, while officially running new-farmer programmes like Agri-Challenge — an urban-agriculture policy of a major Kyushu city.
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JPKokubunji, Tokyo, Japan
Kokubunji launched farm-support volunteering in 1996 and certifies residents who learn cultivation year-round at its Citizen Agriculture College, introducing them to local farmers. About 80 volunteers are now active, and the city also supports six experience farms — a workforce-building urban-agriculture policy.
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JPKawasaki, Japan
Kawasaki maintains an Urban Agriculture Promotion Center and develops varied farm-contact venues — citizen farms, instructor-led experience farms, community-exchange farms and pick-your-own farms. Through programmes like Asao green tourism it uses surviving urban farmland as a place of exchange and learning.
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JPSaitama, Japan
Saitama operates several municipal community farms, including recreation gardens and the Citizens' Forest Community Farm, with instructor-supported plots, giving residents farm experience, community exchange and nature learning — a participatory urban-agriculture policy harnessing a designated city's greenery and farmland.
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JPSuginami, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo's first municipally run agriculture-welfare farm, opened April 2021 in Igusa, Suginami, on a barrier-free 3,200 m2 site giving people with disabilities and seniors a place to engage in farming.
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JPHadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Hadano's first experience-type farm, opened April 2018 with support from JA Hadano and the city's urban-farmland conservation council, using spring water from a nationally designated source and featuring a biotope pond.
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JPTokyo, Japan
A new-farmer network coordinated by the Tokyo Agricultural Council that used the 2018 lease facilitation law to achieve Japan's first new entry into farming via leased productive greenland in 2019.
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JPNishitokyo / Higashikurume, Tokyo, Japan
An area-management organization created alongside the redevelopment of the large Hibarigaoka Danchi spanning Nishitokyo and Higashikurume, Tokyo. Its hub 'Hibari Terrace 118', a renovated former housing block, includes a community garden and lawn plaza where residents connect through planting, harvesting and seasonal events.
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JPHino, Tokyo, Japan
One of UR's danchi-regeneration projects reusing the blocks of the former Tamadaira Danchi (1958) in Hino, Tokyo. With the ~45-plot 'Hidamari Farm', a 'Colony Garden' inspired by Danish kolonihave, and a fruit-bearing yard, it is garden-equipped rental housing where residents and locals connect through growing food.
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JPZama, Kanagawa, Japan
A 1960s Odakyu company-housing complex by Zama station, regenerated in 2015 into a mix of rentals, municipal housing and a childcare-support center. Its central plaza holds the guidance-supported 'Hatamusubi' rental garden and a dog run, aiming to be housing open to the community that links people, nature and town.
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JPHigashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan
An agriculture-experience project Tokyu Land opened in May 2025 on ~800 sqm of farmland in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, for residents of its BRANZ condominiums. With shared and individual plots covering sowing to harvest, cooking and networking, it links city residents to a rural community and nature — a new model of a developer extending a condominium farming community onto rural farmland.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
In 2020 Mitsui Fudosan Residential launched, via its Mitsui no Sumai LOOP membership service and with JA Setagaya-Meguro, an experience-farm and harvest-event program. On a roughly 6,000 sqm farm near Sakurajosui Station, members take part in actual farming from sowing to harvest; one winter-vegetable harvest event drew about 400 groups.
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JPKashiwa, Chiba, Japan
An experience rental farm at Oak Village Kashiwanoha, near Kashiwanoha-campus Station inside Mitsui Fudosan's Kashiwanoha Smart City area. Citizens held 10 sqm plots on a garden-like ~6,000 sqm farm and grew vegetables organically. It was part of a 'food and farming' complex with a farm restaurant and BBQ, but has since closed.
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JPTokyo, Japan
31VENTURES, Mitsui Fudosan's venture arm, ran a 2023 staff farming pilot using Share-batake, the rental farm of portfolio company Agrimedia. Group employees joined by open call and grew vegetables from sowing to harvest to test whether farming improves internal communication. The investment marked Mitsui adding 'farming-based town building' as a focus area.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
A membership-based urban experience farm launched by Nomura Real Estate with JA Setagaya-Meguro in November 2020 in Nakamachi, Setagaya. Over 2,000 sqm of member-owned productive green land is leased and divided into roughly 200 plots (3.6 sqm each) rented to residents and citizens. JA farmers and advisors support cultivation, and with seeds, seedlings, fertilizer and tools provided, even beginners can experience real farming from planting to harvest empty-handed. It aims to preserve shrinking urban farmland while fostering food education and community.
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USニューヨーク市 / New York City, United States
GrowNYC has built more than 120 rainwater-harvesting systems, rain gardens and bioswales in community gardens and schools across the city. In combined-sewer New York, these capture and reuse rainwater on site, diverting over a million gallons a year from the sewer system while enabling citizens to grow more food, conserve water and improve water quality.
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USStratham, United States
A headquarters-lawn garden run by employee volunteers in New Hampshire, donating produce proceeds to a food bank — a flagship employee-engagement CSR case.
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JPTokyo, Japan
A temple parking lot in Sumida, Tokyo turned into a community farm by citizens through the priest's free loan (completed 2020) — a pattern of interim citizen greening of idle temple land.
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CNShanghai, China
Opened in July 2016 as Shanghai's first open-community urban farm. A narrow vacant lot, left unused because a major municipal tunnel runs beneath it, was transformed into a resident-participatory permaculture garden.
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CNShanghai, China
Baicaoyuan ('herbal garden') is a roughly 200 m² resident-run garden in the central square of a Yangpu neighbourhood. Supported by Clover Nature School, it is a representative resident-managed community garden.
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CNShanghai, China
Completed November 2019, a ~450 m² community 'habitat garden' reclaimed from a rubble dump, with native plants, a pond and vegetable beds that provide habitat for urban wildlife while connecting residents to nature. It is the first of Shanghai's habitat-garden network (24 gardens by 2023).
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CNShanghai, China
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.
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CNShanghai, China
A citywide movement begun in 2014 to spread resident-participatory community gardens across Shanghai. Led by the non-profit Clover Nature School, co-founded by Tongji University's Liu Yuelai, it turns neglected spaces into citizen-built edible green areas.
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CNShenzhen, China
Launched by the Shenzhen government in 2019, the 'We Garden' program is a government-led participatory model in which residents jointly turn idle urban land into green spaces and community gardens; several hundred had been built by the end of 2023.
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ILTel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
A network of community gardens spreading across Tel Aviv and Israel where residents grow organic vegetables together, reviving a lost sense of neighbourly sharing and fostering more sustainable living. Gardens in poorer neighbourhoods are supported by several civic organisations and serve as places of social inclusion.
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RUMoscow, Russia
A citizen-participation garden run by the Green School inside central Moscow's Gorky Park. Families and children grow eggplant, cabbage, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, salad greens, mint, sage and more in their own beds, functioning as an urban educational platform for learning to grow food.
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RUSaint Petersburg, Russia
A resident-led urban gardening community on the Karpovka River embankment on St Petersburg's Apothecary Island. It links the island's 18th-century history of medicinal-herb gardens with contemporary urban gardening practice.
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RUSaint Petersburg, Russia
A community garden that appeared in 2020 in St Petersburg's Primorsky Victory Park, where residents grow herbs and salad greens in wooden planters; strong interest led to expansion of the plots.
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RUKazan, Russia
A community garden running since 2017 in Kazan's Gorkinsko-Ometyevsky Forest. Within an urban nature park surrounded by new residential developments, residents tend plots and enjoy harvests alongside lectures and workshops.
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ECQuito, Ecuador
A participatory urban agriculture program run since 2002 by the city of Quito through its economic development agency CONQUITO, promoting agroecology-based self-production of food and advancing social, climate and gender justice.
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COBogotá, Colombia
A district program of urban and peri-urban agroecological agriculture run by Bogotá's José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden. Since 2004 it has trained citizens and supported gardens, and is regarded as a Latin American reference case.
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COMedellín, Colombia
Medellín's urban agriculture program. The 2005 'Ecohuertas Urbanas' is its flagship project, and together with the successor 'Huertas con Vos' it advances food security and social cohesion.
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CLSantiago, Chile
Inaugurated in 2007 as the first urban community garden in the Santiago metropolitan area by the municipality of La Pintana; with a 700 m² parcelled garden and pioneering composting, it sustains agricultural traditions in a low-income commune.
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BRBelo Horizonte, Brazil
Urban agriculture rooted in Belo Horizonte's food security policy, with over three decades of experience; centred on a community-garden program created in 2017, it supports residents' production with seedlings and training.
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BRRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro's urban agriculture program, launched in 2006, establishing agroecological gardens in schools and vacant lots and supporting food security in favelas and vulnerable areas through composting, seedling production and food education.
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UYMontevideo, Uruguay
Community gardens run as part of Montevideo's urban agriculture program (PAU-IMM), supporting family, community and educational gardens and embodying a distinctly Uruguayan style of participatory urban agriculture.
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BOEl Alto, Bolivia
Urban and peri-urban agriculture begun in 1984 in El Alto (about 4,000 m altitude), using FAO-supported solar greenhouses and women-led household gardens to improve food security at high altitude.
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CAMontreal, Canada
Montreal's municipal community garden programme, launched in 1975 and the largest in Canada, rated among the best in North America. About 10,000 gardeners grow food and flowers on 6,700 plots across 73 gardens.
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CAToronto, Canada
A community food centre in Toronto's west end, founded in 1982, running a food bank plus four community gardens and two farmers' markets. Its Green Barn is an urban-agriculture hub with a greenhouse and compost demonstration centre.
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CAWinnipeg, Canada
A non-profit neighbourhood association in Winnipeg's inner-city West End that has created nine community gardens and a community greenhouse since its founding. It works on food security in a multicultural, low-income area.
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ZACape Town, South Africa
A non-profit urban farm started in 2012 on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town. It regenerated a historic farm site into an organic farm and community hub celebrating local food, culture and community.
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ZACape Town, South Africa
A community-supported agriculture vegetable-box scheme launched in 2008 by Abalimi Bezekhaya, an NGO based in Cape Town's townships. It relaunched in September 2022 after a three-year break.
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RWKigali, Rwanda
Urban farming spreading across Rwanda's land-scarce capital, Kigali. Residents boost food security through community gardens, kitchen gardens and marshland cultivation, and crops have been incorporated into the city's master plan.
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INMumbai, India
A Mumbai city-farming movement that opened a community farm on space offered by the director of Maharashtra Nature Park. Aiming for a community farm in every suburb, it spreads organic growing through terrace farms and school programmes.
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INDelhi, India
A Delhi-based eco-initiative teaching urban dwellers organic growing that has set up 500+ kitchen gardens since 2015. Its 'Farmlets' programme lets citizens rent plots to grow their own food, broadening urban-farming participation.
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INPune, India
A Pune community-farming group formed in 2019 that creates space for people without land to grow organically together. Its ~800 members share plots and knowledge and turn household kitchen waste into compost.
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IDBandung, Indonesia
Launched by Bandung in 2020, 'Buruan SAE' (Sundanese for 'good yard') is an integrated urban-farming programme combining vegetables, livestock, fishery, medicinal plants and organic-waste composting. By 2022 it had grown to 335 groups across 151 villages.
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IDSurabaya, Indonesia
A city-driven urban-farming programme. Through frameworks such as 'KASUR BOYO' (Kampung Sayur Suroboyo), the DKPP supports residents across kampungs in producing vegetables, fruit, fish and livestock on limited urban space for food security, greening and organic-waste management.
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IDJakarta, Indonesia
Built on the regenerated former red-light district of Kalijodo, this Child-Friendly Integrated Public Space (RPTRA) hosts an urban-farming garden where children learn cultivation and conservation, serving as a space for resident food security and land-use education. Other RPTRA such as Taman Anggrek run similar urban farming.
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JPKadoma, Osaka, Japan
A small community farm in a residential area facing Kadoma Shrine in Kadoma, Osaka, with toilets, a tool shed, and a shared herb garden free to harvest.
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JPKobe, Hyogo, Japan
A community farm in Zenshoji-cho, Suma-ku, Kobe, prepared to open in April 2025. It makes use of its natural setting between a hillside and the Zenshoji River, built DIY with local residents.
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JPKobe, Hyogo, Japan
A co-creation farm on leased Kobe city land with a view of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Ougiden, Tarumi-ku, Kobe. Themed on 'play', it runs on three pillars—an organic rental farm, hands-on permaculture workshops, and a shared farming place—emphasizing organic-matter cycling and composting, jointly operated by Minna no Uen, Sorabatake and Hoshi no Aima.
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JPOsaka, Japan
An SDGs natural farm started in Osaka in 2021 that bridges 'awai' (the in-between) of farming and welfare. It partners with children's cafeterias in Tsurumi Ward and Moriguchi, donating its harvest to them, and links children's food education with the social participation of people facing employment barriers.
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JPOsaka, Japan
An approximately 153-square-meter urban community garden opened beside Kuho Park in Osaka's Semba district in March 2025. Its name draws on 'coton' (cotton) and 'co + on', evoking Semba's textile-industry heritage and a wish for soft, cotton-like human connections.
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JPKobe, Japan
A park-based community garden opened in April 2021 in a corner of Hirano Outlook Park in Kobe's Hyogo Ward. Growing citrus such as yuzu, figs and plums, its community plaza, garden and membership learning plaza create a place to engage with farming in the city.
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JPKobe, Japan
A membership rental garden attached to Noevir Stadium Kobe in Misaki Park. By embedding a growing space within an urban sports venue, it offers an example of urban farming where residents enjoy growing vegetables right beside the stadium.
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JPKobe, Japan
A community garden at Zaimokucho Plaza along Kobe's Hyogo Canal. Using planters made from reused maritime wooden pallets, it grows strawberries, over ten kinds of herbs, figs, citrus, hops and radishes, creating a place for community farming and exchange on the canal bank.
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TWTaipei, Taiwan
Taipei's citywide urban-farming policy launched in 2015 under Mayor Ko Wen-je. Through four garden types-community, school, rooftop and allotment-it converts scattered vacant spaces across the city into edible green infrastructure.
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TWTaipei, Taiwan
In Nangang's Jiuzhuang, residents transformed a neglected, dumping-prone plaza into a community garden. It is the subject of an academic case study (Sustainability journal) on how community gardens support urban health and well-being.
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KRSeoul, South Korea
A citizen-participatory urban farm on Nodeul Island in the Han River. A formerly neglected artificial island was turned into a community garden for safe food and neighbourly exchange, becoming one of the symbolic sites of Seoul's urban agriculture.
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KRSeoul, South Korea
Opened in October 2013 as Korea's first urban-agriculture park. Developed by Gangdong-gu as the centre of its eco-friendly urban-agriculture policy, it combines resident allotments, food education, hands-on experience and native-seed conservation as a healing and community space.
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KRIncheon, South Korea
Incheon's 'Eeum' (meaning 'connection') community urban farm, started in 2021 through participatory budgeting. Citizens and organisations grow crops together and run education and exchange activities, creating a public space for safe food and neighbourly ties.
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KRBusan, South Korea
Citizen-participatory urban-farming experiences within Busan Citizens Park, opened in 2014 on land returned from the former U.S. military base Camp Hialeah. An agriculture-themed forest and experience gardens host activities such as rice planting and harvesting.
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KRSuwon, South Korea
Tapdong Citizen Farm in Suwon, a citizen-participatory urban garden on land affiliated with Seoul National University's College of Agriculture. It offers organic allotment plots and seasonal flower fields as a place of healing and community for urban residents.
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MYKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
An approximately 8-acre urban farm regenerating neglected land in central Kuala Lumpur. Addressing the climate crisis, lack of open space and food insecurity, its harvest is donated to soup kitchens and the underprivileged. In 2022 DBKL recognised it as a model community garden under LA21KL.
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MYKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A resident-led community garden in Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur. A former DBKL officer living locally connected community gardens to LA21, and it is featured as one of 21+ community gardens flourishing across the Klang Valley.
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PHQuezon City, Philippines
Launched in 2010 by then–Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte to mitigate hunger, it promotes methods suited to limited city space such as vertical and container gardening and chemical-free organic growing. By 2025 over 1,400 urban farms were reported across the city.
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PHMetro Manila, Philippines
A network of urban gardeners envisioning Metro Manila as 'one big community garden.' It comprises 20+ gardens in subdivisions, barangays, schools, informal settlements and condominiums, helping residents grow food and gain knowledge.
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THBangkok, Thailand
A citizen urban-agriculture network overseeing 450+ community gardens centred on Bangkok. During COVID-19 it converted wasteland into food sources, launching 210 new gardens starting with 30 high-risk communities across six provinces.
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JPAsahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Asahikawa City's citizen farm is a shared-plot community garden where, under the guidance of the natural-cultivation farm Minamina Farm, all participants work one field together. It lets residents learn pesticide- and chemical-fertilizer-free growing while mixing with one another.
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JPSapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Furusato Farm in Sapporo's Minami Ward is an agricultural company that reclaimed long-abandoned farmland to grow vegetables on about 5 hectares. It runs food-education programs that invite local children to experience everything from growing to cooking and eating.
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JPHachinohe, Aomori, Japan
Hachinohe Citizen Farm is a publicly run allotment opened inside the city's Agricultural Management Promotion Center to deepen residents' understanding of farming through family experiences. It offers about 240 plots of 33 square meters, allocated by annual lottery.
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JPHiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
A network of more than 100 public citizen vegetable gardens across Hiroshima offering beginner-friendly plots plus cultivation classes and harvest festivals. The Mihari garden includes 'food-and-farming plots' where children's groups grow sweet potatoes, serving as a hands-on food-education setting.
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JPOkayama, Okayama, Japan
An Okayama City citizen farm of about 7 hectares and 484 plots that serves as a place to connect with the soil and deepen understanding of farming and food. Year-round events such as the open-air market, farming experiences and a harvest festival make it a community hub linking users and locals.
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JPSanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
Sanyo-Onoda City's 'Fureai' citizen farm is a place where residents connect with nature and deepen their understanding of farming through growing vegetables and flowers. Its stated aims include purpose for older residents and experiential learning for children, enriching community life.
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JPTakamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
A citizen garden inside the 5-hectare 'Konan Agream' farming-exchange facility near Takamatsu Airport, where residents rent about 50 m2 for roughly 10,000 yen a year. Through harvest and cooking experiences it lets people touch rural life and acts as a food-education and community hub.
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JPKochi, Kochi, Japan
A citizen farm opened by Kochi City in the Kagami and Tosayama areas where residents grow vegetables and flowers amid the nature of the Kagami River headwaters. It offers downtown residents a place to connect with mountainous-area farming and nature, supporting exchange and food education.
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JPKitanakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan
An organic community garden run by Sunshine Farm in Kitanakagusuku, reviving the traditional Okinawan home plot 'atai-guwa' as an edible garden. Across fields, a paddy and a plaza, residents of all ages grow vegetables, rice and herbs and share the harvest.
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JPOkinawa, Okinawa, Japan
A municipal citizens' farm in Okinawa City opened in 1994, offering about 1.9 ha and 102 plots to residents. Non-farmers grow vegetables and flowers there to deepen agricultural understanding, revitalise the community and nurture future growers.
city.okinawa.okinawa.jp
JPKumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
A Kumamoto City scheme designating qualifying citizen farms as 'Family Gardens,' places to enjoy soil and deepen appreciation of food and farming. Gardens are spread across the city's five wards, and residents without farmland can join on a rolling basis.
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JPKagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan
An about-30-ha urban agriculture centre opened by Kagoshima City in 1997, divided into training, citizens'-farm and interaction zones. Residents who rent plots in the citizens'-farm zone deepen agricultural understanding, health and exchange through workshops and fruit-harvest experiences.
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JPKagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan
A 413,000-square-metre municipal agri-park in Kiire, Kagoshima. With experience plots, a stay-type citizens' farm and an environmental-learning building, this free-admission facility lets residents enjoy farming, food and learning about circular agriculture.
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JPBeppu, Oita, Japan
A citizens' farm run by Beppu City where residents grow vegetables and flowers in the countryside overlooking Mt. Yufu. It recruits users as a place to deepen understanding of agriculture through farm work in nature and interaction with local residents not available downtown.
city.beppu.oita.jp
JPMiyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Tsukura Citizens' Farm, run by Miyazaki City, rents affordable plots of about 15 square metres to residents with on-site cultivation support. Beginners and families can enjoy growing vegetables and harvesting, tied to the city's food-education and local-production efforts.
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JPSaga, Saga, Japan
An initiative by Saga City introducing citizens' farms (fureai farms) opened by local farmers and individuals. At gardens such as Muraoka Honobono Farm and Tsunome Farm, residents grow vegetables to engage with nature and agriculture, deepening understanding and contact with nature.
city.saga.lg.jp+1
JPToyama, Toyama, Japan
A program Toyama City launched in 2013 to create community gardens in a corner of neighborhood parks and revitalize local community through vegetable harvesting. It now runs at seven sites, operated by resident park-care associations.
city.toyama.lg.jp+1
JPYokkaichi, Mie, Japan
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.
city.yokkaichi.mie.jp+1
JPNara, Nara, Japan
Municipal rental farms in Nara's eastern Sakahara and Tawara districts where residents grow vegetables with support from local farming cooperatives. They deepen interest in farming and foster exchange between users and local farmers.
city.nara.lg.jp+1
JPMoriyama, Shiga, Japan
'Oishii Niwa,' run in Moriyama by NPO Aoi Biwako (focused on Lake Biwa conservation). Through home gardening, composting, and parent-child SDGs learning, citizens engage with food-farming and organic-resource cycling.
moriyama-ecopark.net+1
JPGifu, Gifu, Japan
Gifu City's elderly health gardens, run across the city for older residents' wellbeing and purpose, plus JA Gifu's Health Fureai Farm. Residents aged 60+ enjoy growing vegetables on rented plots.
city.gifu.lg.jp+1
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
An urban-farming project in Amsterdam-Noord. Built around an organic self-harvest garden, it links farming, food, welfare and enterprise, with local residents involved in running it.
iamsterdam.com+1
ESBarcelona, Spain
Barcelona's network of urban allotments, begun in 1997 with the recovery of the Can Mestres plots. Centred on participation by older people and vulnerable groups, it turns public land into new green and social space.
ajuntament.barcelona.cat+1
ITRome, Italy
A pioneering platform that maps and links Rome's shared community gardens; since its launch, the number of such gardens in the city has grown from 40 to more than 200.
cooperativecity.org+1
AUSydney, Australia
A case where citizens turned an inner-city disused lot into a place for food and learning, built on three pillars — local food, education and community — aiming to make urban farming a normal part of city life.
camperdown.commons.com.au+1
NZAuckland, New Zealand
An organic city farm on council land just a few kilometres from downtown, linking welfare, education and organic cycling to give citizens hands-on contact with farming and food.
kelmarna.co.nz+1
SEMalmö, Sweden
A social urban farm in Malmö's Rosengård district that uses food and farming for ecological, economic and social sustainability, linking the inclusion of immigrants with the training of a new generation of urban farmers.
malmo.se+2
PLWarsaw, Poland
A 3.6-hectare cooperative urban farm in Warsaw's Siekierki district, about 25 minutes from downtown. On former allotment land cleared for a bridge project and long left idle, residents formed a cooperative and turned it into an edible landscape.
culture.pl+3
ESMadrid, Spain
A citizen network linking community urban gardens across Madrid. Founded in 2011 to make urban agriculture more visible and to provide mutual aid, it has helped drive municipal recognition of community gardens.
wiki.ecolise.eu+1
BEWatermael-Boitsfort, Brussels, Belgium
An urban, participatory and ecologically-minded farm in Brussels' Watermael-Boitsfort district, where citizens and professionals farm together, using food to build local connection and protect the environment.
chantdescailles.be+2
CHZürich, Switzerland
A citizen-run neighbourhood farm — the last in central Zurich — operated collectively by some 600 member households, combining growing, animal husbandry, nature conservation, youth and social work to link farming and city life.
quartierhof-wynegg.ch+1
PTLisbon, Portugal
Lisbon's first municipal horticultural park, opened by the city in the Benfica district in 2011, where residents lease plots through public competition to grow organically — the model for the city's wider network of municipal allotment parks.
lisboa.pt+1
USMinneapolis, United States
A Native-led nonprofit founded in 1998 with an urban hub in Minneapolis, holding 200+ Indigenous seed varieties including Cherokee corn carried on the Trail of Tears. It reconnects urban Native youth with traditional crops, cooking and culture to restore food, health and sovereignty.
dreamofwildhealth.org+1
USAlbany, United States
An Afro-Indigenous community farm that gives free home gardens to city residents in the Albany area and saves and shares seeds of African, Indigenous and Palestinian heritage crops, reclaiming ancestral farming and food culture to end food apartheid.
soulfirefarm.org+1
USDetroit, United States
Opened in 2008 by the Black-led grassroots network DBCFSN (founded 2006), this ~7-acre Detroit urban farm grows 30+ crops rooted in African-American food culture—collard greens, okra, hot peppers—to strengthen food security and sovereignty for Detroit's Black community.
dbcfsn.org+1
USSeattle, United States
Seattle's city community-garden program, begun in 1973 with ~90 sites, where immigrants and refugees grow heritage crops from their homelands—Ethiopian kale, Hmong herbs and more—recreating ancestral tastes and food cultures in the city and forming one of Seattle's most multicultural public spaces.
seattle.gov+1
NZRotorua, New Zealand
A Rotorua food-growing charity formed in 2017 that grows, harvests and stores kūmara—the key Māori heritage crop—in community gardens following the Māori lunar calendar, teaching cultivation knowledge and food culture (oral lore, karakia, waiata) to schools and the community and restoring Indigenous food sovereignty.
kairotorua.nz+1
SGSingapore, Singapore
SECUF in Singapore: gardening hubs bringing communities together through edibles gardening and curated horticulture programs. The SECUF Grant encourages social enterprises to establish and operate Community Urban Farms, conducting programs for seniors, persons with disabilities, and low-income groups. Singapore has 1,500+ community gardens and 2,500+ allotment plots across 29 parks. Next allotment garden application window in Q4 2026.
gardeningsg.nparks.gov.sg+1
ATVienna, Austria
A community farm in Vienna's Favoriten district demonstrating urban agriculture integration into urban development with citizen participation.
citychangers.org+1
MXMexico City, Mexico
Mexico City community project integrating vegetable gardens, chicken coops, trout farm, and compost program with emphasis on youth environmental education and engagement.
foodtank.com+1
DEBerlin, Germany
One of Germany's largest community gardens, created on Berlin's iconic former airport field, Tempelhofer Feld. Cultivating public open space with movable raised beds, it embodies the idea of the urban commons (Allmende) and doubles as a knowledge and networking hub for urban gardening.
allmende-kontor.de+1
DEBerlin, Germany
A flagship community garden in Berlin's Wedding district. Forced to leave its original site to make way for a football education centre, it relocated after a citizens' campaign to a permanent site on Gartenstraße in late 2021. Combining gardening, a café and education programmes, it is a hub for urban greenery and social inclusion.
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ITFlorence, Italy
Located on Borgo Pinti in Florence's historic centre, said to be the only urban garden inside the UNESCO World Heritage zone. It regenerated a disused athletics track, practising sustainable growing with recycled materials and water-saving irrigation alongside food and environmental education. It is known for creating community space and greenery in the heart of a tourist city.
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CZPrague, Czechia
The first community garden in Prague and the pioneer of the Czech urban-gardening movement. Combining small bag/bed plots with a café, it became popular as a place to 'grow relationships along with vegetables' and triggered the spread of community gardens to other districts of the city.
sharingandcaring.eu+2
BRSão Paulo, Brazil
An experimental community garden created by citizens in Praça das Corujas in western São Paulo. A forerunner of a new movement in which a social-media-born citizen network cultivates public space, it inspired gardens across the city.
hortadascorujas.wordpress.com+1
PELima, Peru
In an arid peripheral district of Lima, older women turned wasteland into a 1,400 m² agroecological garden. A resident-led response to food insecurity and the climate crisis, it puts urban agriculture at the heart of neighbourhood food and social life.
es.wikipedia.org+2
AEDubai, United Arab Emirates
Urban farming embedded in a purpose-built sustainable community on the edge of desert-city Dubai. Combining biodome greenhouses with resident allotments, it supplies locally grown vegetables despite the hot arid climate while using farming to build community.
thenationalnews.com+2
TNTunis, Tunisia
In a dense, low-income district of Tunis, residents have reclaimed neglected land as a communal garden, gaining fresh vegetables, income and a step toward food sovereignty. It is watched as a new model of resident-led agroecology in North African cities.
hivos.org
THBangkok, タイ
Part of a 2024 comparative study on sustainable urban farming management in Thailand and Indonesia, exploring optimization of agricultural practices for community application.
journal-iasssf.com
VNHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Circular agriculture community garden launched by Vietnam Food Bank Network in collaboration with youth and international agencies. Focuses on practicing circular agriculture, food waste reduction, and supporting disadvantaged groups.
vietnam.vn
PHQuezon City, Philippines
Women-led grassroots project in the urban poor community of Sitio San Roque in Quezon City. Has grown from a food source to a strategy for ensuring food security and defending land rights.
iied.org
PLWarsaw, Poland
Citywide program established in 2017 to support Warsaw inhabitants in setting up and managing community gardens. Offers access to knowledge, materials, capacity building, and networking.
interlace-hub.com
ROBucharest, Romania
Urban agriculture project established in 2020 focusing on community gardens, company gardens, and shared composting spaces. Raises awareness among citizens and local authorities about urban farming benefits.
romania-insider.com
JOAmman, Jordan
Community-based urban garden project led by UN-Habitat and funded by UNEP in Amman. Includes greenhouse and mushroom room for consistent yields. Local residents form management groups.
jordan.un.org
IDJakarta, Indonesia
Urban greening community gardens in Jakarta using tactical urbanism. 12 communities in South Kebayoran Lama implementing and operating urban farms. Seruni Indah Farmers Group supports over 3,500 residents.
mdpi.com
SGSingapore, Singapore
Launched in 2005 at Mayfair Park Estate, adapted from Canada's movement. Over 1,900 community garden sites across Singapore. Residents apply for plots awarded by ballot. Central to Singapore's '30 by 30' food security target.
neighbourhoodlife.com.sg
USDenver, USA
Denver Urban Gardens operates a culturally-inclusive seed program that crowd-sources plant variety requests to create a catalog of hard-to-access seed varieties appropriate to the local climate.
dug.org
USMulti-city, USA
USDA-led national initiative launched in 2009; expanded nationwide in 2022. Increases fresh food access in underserved communities, supports wildlife habitats, and enhances urban green space.
guides.loc.gov
PLKraków, Poland
Poland's first parcel-based community garden pilot launched in Kraków in 2025. Citizens cultivate food on designated plots. Promotes ecological practices, community engagement, and social innovation, aligning with EU goals for sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient urban development.
interreg-central.eu
GRAthens, Greece
Started by Maroussi Municipality in 2012 in response to Greece's economic crisis. Municipal land transformed into community vegetable gardens with 40 plots of 25 square meters each for vulnerable groups including unemployed, low-earners, low-pensioners, and single parents. Includes soil enrichment and water supply infrastructure. A pioneering model for community food security in post-crisis Greece.
astydama.com+1
PLKraków, Poland
Social gardens program implemented by Krakow's Greenspace Authority since 2018. Operates 9 community gardens and 18 school gardens. Integrates education through the 'Garden with Class' project. Hosts annual 'Urban Gardeners' School' to expand residents' gardening knowledge. Functions as a school and community-integrated urban agriculture model in Poland.
sciencedirect.com+1
CLSantiago, Chile
Urban agriculture initiative led by NGO Cultivos Urbanos in Santiago. Encourages citizens to develop a new relationship with nature through workshops on native plants, herbs, and bushes. Integrates indigenous plant culture recovery with sustainable urban agriculture. Operates across multiple Santiago neighborhoods.
unsustainablemagazine.com+1
ARRosario, Argentina
Rosario's urban agriculture initiative emerged as a community response to Argentina's 2001 economic crisis. The city has won international awards for its vast urban agriculture programs spanning about 45 hectares (30 hectares of community orchard parks and 15 hectares of family gardens). Despite past success, El Bosque now faces challenges from lack of state support.
pulitzercenter.org+2
CAToronto, Canada
A 2024 resident-led composting stewardship program in Thorncliffe Park with City of Toronto support. Since launch, the program has collected over 3,000 pounds of organic waste, demonstrating strong community engagement in circular economy practices.
thorncliffeparkurbanfarmers.ca+1
USChicago, United States
Part of NACDI's Indigenous Food Sovereignty program, bringing together Native American urban farmers in Chicago to cultivate culturally appropriate foods and strengthen community economic self-determination.
nacdi.org+1
USDetroit, United States
Community-led composting initiative diverting food scraps from landfills and teaching sustainable waste management; diverted 3,300+ pounds of food waste between Aug–Nov 2025; supports circular urban food systems.
planetdetroit.org+1
BRSão Paulo, Brazil
Urban horticulturists network promoting food autonomy and agroecology. São Paulo's 2020 survey identified 735 agricultural units, 104 urban gardens, and 170 institutional gardens. Gardens on public and private land strengthen community participation and land stewardship.
news.mongabay.com+1
MXMexico City, Mexico
Founded by three young women, Sembradores Urbanos opened Mexico's first urban agriculture demonstration center in August 2007. Teaches residents how to connect with food, care for land, and create green spaces.
cityfarmer.info+1
CZPrague, Czechia
Kokoza established Prague's first community garden in 2012. As of February 2024, monitoring 150 gardens in Czechia (69 in Prague area, 14 in Brno). Advocates for garden integration into city plans and policies; establishes gardens for developers, corporations, and communities.
nadacevia.cz+1
CLSantiago, Chile
Santiago municipalities (Cerro Navia, Ñuñoa) fund approximately 35 community urban garden projects focusing on neighborhood initiatives and environmental themes in public spaces and residential complexes.
sciencedirect.com
NGLagos, Nigeria
An urban-farming education program by a Lagos food bank that builds residents' agricultural knowledge and supports food security
lagosfoodbank.org
UGKampala, Uganda
A four-year urban food project Oxfam launched in 2021 with local NGO CIDI, scaling up small-scale urban farming in Kampala's slums
oxfam.org.uk
ZWBulawayo, Zimbabwe
An organization advancing urban farming and greening in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo, fostering community nurseries and farmer cooperatives
greenhut.org
USLos Angeles, United States
A 14-acre lot once slated for a waste incinerator, turned into one of the largest urban farms in the US.
en.wikipedia.org+2
USNew York, United States
An iconic East Village community garden that became a flashpoint of anti-development protest.
en.wikipedia.org+1
USNew York, United States
A legendary circular garden on the Lower East Side, a pioneer of the urban gardening movement.
en.wikipedia.org+1
USNew York, United States
A garden that anchored a neighborhood scarred by drugs and violence, lost to development.
en.wikipedia.org+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Valued as an environmental asset mitigating pollution, but lost to housing redevelopment.
andyworthington.co.uk+1
GBSipson, London, United Kingdom
An ~11-year squatted community garden born from opposition to Heathrow expansion.
en.wikipedia.org+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A historic allotment promised 'in perpetuity', swept away for the Olympics.
en.wikipedia.org+1
DEBerlin, Germany
A neighborhood garden that lost its original site to an investor's apartment plans.
rosarose-garten.net+1
CAToronto, Canada
A volunteer-tended garden inside a city park, bulldozed by the city without warning.
blogto.com
USUkiah, California, United States
A ~20-year-old plot community garden in Ukiah. Its operator NCO could not secure funding after grant applications (including a $558,429 request to the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture) were rejected, and it closed at the end of June 2026.
mendovoice.com+1
PHQuezon City, Philippines
Launched in 2010 to encourage low-income households to grow their own nutritious food. Promotes vertical gardening and container farming with starter kits. 160 community vegetable gardens across Quezon City support thousands of urban farmers.
uclg-aspac.org
PLWarsaw, Poland
MOST cooperative reclaimed a 3.6-hectare abandoned allotment site in Warsaw's Siekierki district. Residents created a cooperative to ensure well-being, nature connection, environmental responsibility, and social bonds.
cityfarmer.info+1
SEStockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Municipality-led community gardens. Studied as sustainability and community building model. Research focus on incentives and participation mechanisms.
cambridge.org
SEMalmö, Sweden
Malmö city-wide urban farming initiative. Integrates social interaction, health, biodiversity, and climate action. Multiple formats deployed across parks and squares.
talkofthecities.iclei.org
NOOslo, Norway
Oslo community gardens have high demand with lengthy waiting lists. Research on citizen attitudes and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for different urban agriculture types.
researchgate.net
SGSingapore, Singapore
National Parks Board initiative. 1,600+ community gardens with 50,000 members. Schools and community centers as hubs. Promotes rooftop and vertical farming. 2020 social enterprise urban farm grant program launched.
ourworld.unu.edu+1
AUSydney, Australia
700+ community gardens across Australia with ~20,000 weekly participants. Cultivating fresh produce, learning, relaxation, and community connection.
doi.org
COBogotá, Colombia
Urban agriculture network led by Bogotá's Botanical Garden. Part of public policy to strengthen 20,000 urban and peri-urban vegetable gardens. Cultivates over 120 nutritious plant species.
sciencedirect.com+2
INMumbai, India
Mumbai Port Trust transforms unused urban spaces into flourishing gardens. Employs women groups, improves access to fresh produce, and creates economic opportunities.
ibef.org+1
ZACape Town, South Africa
City of Cape Town and Provincial Agriculture support community gardens in low-income areas to enhance food security and nutrition.
tandfonline.com+1
GHAccra, Ghana
Designated urban agriculture zones in Accra and Kumasi supporting household gardening projects. Uses treated wastewater for irrigation to ensure year-round cultivation while addressing food security and water resource efficiency.
cityfarmer.info
NGLagos, Nigeria
Community gardens in Yaba district of Lagos respond to food inflation and supply disruptions. Residents manage shared farming spaces and experiment with innovative methods including hydroponics, aquaponics, and container gardening to address food insecurity and economic hardship.
guardian.ng
THBangkok, タイ
Community garden project launched in Bangkok. By 2022, 165 farms established across Bangkok. Expanded nationally through 'Thai City Farm' initiative to five additional cities. Integrates food production, livelihoods, and social connection.
una.city+1
CZPrague, チェコ共和国
Community garden movement in Prague launched 2012, expanded rapidly: 10 gardens by 2013, 24 by end of 2017, 42 registered public gardens currently. Spread to larger cities and towns, with expansion to smaller municipalities (Nový Jičín, Ústí nad Labem, Blatná) after 2018. Growing public recognition of social farming; legal frameworks for support in development.
adaptacepraha.cz+1
USSeattle, United States
Seattle Parks integrated community gardens into public park spaces with clear roles, participatory planning, and community engagement
sciencedirect.com
ITPadua, Italy
Participatory spatial planning process in Padua using multicriteria analysis to identify suitable community garden sites for inclusive urban development
frontiersin.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Citizen science project quantifying crop yields from London community gardens during 2019-2020 growing seasons to demonstrate urban farming productivity
digitalcommons.lmu.edu
GRMaroussi, Greece
A northern Athens suburb community garden dividing land into 40 plots of 25 sqm each for local residents. Pioneer of municipal gardens movement in Greece since 2012.
redandblack.com
HUBudapest, Hungary
Budapest's grassroots community garden movement transforming vacant urban lots. Supported by KÉK Contemporary Architecture Centre since 2010, with nearly 80 active gardens documented.
eu-opensci.org+1
PLWarsaw, Poland
Warsaw-based community farm cooperative offering food education, eco-workshops and skill training for underprivileged communities. Joined AMPLE Warsaw program in 2025.
botany.one
ROBucharest, Romania
Kaufland Romania's network of 9 community gardens across Bucharest—on rooftops, in parking areas, and at schools. Demonstrates corporate investment in urban food production.
cityfarmer.info
ETAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
Farm Africa's urban agriculture pilot in Addis Ababa targeting low-income communities. Emphasizes household food production, livelihoods, and ecosystem enhancement, with women as primary participants.
farmingfirst.org
RWKigali, Rwanda
Kigali farmers and artisans market supporting urban agriculture. Located in Green Village, enabling direct trade between urban farmers and artisans.
cityfarmer.info
ECQuito, Ecuador
Ecuador's longest-running participatory urban agriculture program (2002–present), supporting 4,700+ community gardens in high-poverty areas. Includes vertical farming promotion.
futurepolicy.org+1
ARRosario, Argentina
In response to food insecurity during the 1990s economic crisis, Rosario launched a municipal urban agriculture program. It expanded from 20 groups to 800+ within two years, supporting 40,000 people.
idrc-crdi.ca
ARBuenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires Province launched Bonaerense Urban Garden Program in 2024, distributing over 1.5 million agroecological seedlings across 125 municipalities to strengthen food security and localized agriculture.
noticiasambientales.com
PELima, Peru
MUSA project, led by Cuso International, provides agriculture training and community garden expansion for women farmers in low-income Lima districts. Addresses food insecurity and malnutrition across 350+ farmers and 204 gardens.
cusointernational.org
PELima, Peru
30-month initiative to boost Lima's local food production. Transforms gardens into hubs with composting and organic cycle training, plus fair trade labeling to support sustainable local agriculture.
cusointernational.org
CLSantiago, Chile
Santiago community gardens restore native Chilean plants while producing food. Operating in districts like La Pintana, they promote food democracy and ecological citizenship through participatory action.
frontiersin.org
MXMexico City, Mexico
Cultiva Ciudad manages school gardens in Mexico City and converts 1,500+ kg of food waste annually into fertile soil. Huerto Tlatelolco project features a 1,650 m2 edible forest with 45 tree varieties plus a seed bank, advancing food sovereignty and organic recycling.
zeahungrygoods.com
PHManila, フィリピン
Metro Manila showcases diverse urban agriculture experimentations by citizens. Various experiments utilizing vacant spaces and community areas contribute to food security and community building.
journals.sagepub.com
DEBerlin, Germany
Intercultural community garden in Berlin's Wedding district. On 6,000 m² space, citizens gather to garden, cook, and participate in workshops on environmental education and nutrition, using recycled building materials.
raumstar.de+1
FRParis, France
Paris has 150+ shared gardens across almost all arrondissements. In 2025, a new call for projects for 'Shared Gardens Main Verte and Relay Gardens' was launched. Nationally, France expanded from 3,000 gardens in 2015 to over 12,000.
paris.fr+1
GRAthens, Greece
Following the 2010 economic crisis, citizens in Athens began using public space for productive, social, and educational purposes. Municipal gardens launched in 2012. A municipal plot in Maroussi was divided into 40 sections (25 m² each) for citizen gardening. Antonis Tritsis Park announced plans to develop 50,000 m² of land into a community farm.
astydama.com+1
MXMexico City, Mexico
Mexico City formed the Urban Garden System (SHU) in 2024 with Sedema, UNEP, and local allies. On a 3,600 m² plot, they cultivate traditional milpa (corn, climbing beans, squash association) and conduct workshops on traditional cultivation systems.
sedema.cdmx.gob.mx+1
PTLisbon, Portugal
Launched in 2011 to convert vacant lots and degraded parks into urban allotment parks. By 2020, 20 parks with 750 allotments across the city. Priority access for unemployed, elderly, low-income residents. Parks freely open to visitors. Lisbon won European Green Capital Award in 2020.
interlace-hub.com+1
AUPerth, Australia
Government grant program providing up to AUD $10,000 for community garden projects. Supports food security and community engagement through various initiatives including seed-saving workshops, security improvements, and native/medicinal plant knowledge sharing
wa.gov.au
BRCuritiba, Brazil
Curitiba's integrated urban food system recognized as a model for Brazil and UNDP urban agriculture initiatives. 2021 designation as mentor city for the Urban Laboratory for Integrated Municipal Food Policies
aiph.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
16-hectare organic farm in Amsterdam West featuring innovative cherry and raspberry cultivation, free-roaming hens, CSA section, organic shop, and meeting rooms. Exemplary community-participatory agriculture
iamsterdam.com
ESMadrid, Spain
Joint initiative between Madrid Agroecologico and municipal government managing organic waste from schools, residences, and markets. Local farmers produce compost, closing urban nutrient cycles
link.springer.com
ESEl Robledo, Spain
Small town south of Madrid (pop. ~2,000) where over 100 families operate a community composting facility, processing organic waste collectively and supporting local agriculture
sciencedirect.com
DEBerlin, Germany
Community-operated gardens on the former Templehof airport grounds in Berlin. Produces vegetables and fruits, hosts educational workshops, and serves as a community meeting space. Exemplary resident-led urban farming
foodtank.com
DEBerlin, Germany
Intercultural community garden with 50+ raised beds in Berlin. Open to residents of diverse cultural backgrounds. Functions as a space for cultural exchange and community activities
cityfarmer.info
SGSingapore, Singapore
NParks' nationwide citizen gardening programme 'Community in Bloom', begun in 2005 at Mayfair Park Estate, together with the 'Allotment Gardening' scheme introduced in 2016. In the land-scarce city-state of Singapore, they spread citizen food-growing and gardening across estates, parks and rooftops.
gardeningsg.nparks.gov.sg+1
SEGothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg's colony and allotment gardens, begun in 1903 inspired by the German colony movement. Alongside around 3,000 colony plots, shared urban-farming gardens run by growing associations have spread in recent years, actively supported by the city.
gothenburggreenworld.com+1
MARabat, Morocco
Swani Tiqa is a set of three citizen-run agroecological gardens in Rabat (started 2009) producing vegetables and herbs for nearby families through short producer-consumer chains. They are coordinated by RIAM, Morocco's national agroecology network, and took part in the pilot for the country's Participatory Guarantee System.
urgenci.net+1
NOOslo, Norway
A public urban farm in Oslo's Bjørvika redevelopment that links urban farming, art and community — an ancient-grain field, gardens, a public bakehouse and allotments on a former container port, growing food and green space in the heart of the city.
loseter.no+2
CZPrague, Czechia
A Prague social enterprise turning unused urban land into community gardens and composting hubs, spreading composting and gardening among citizens, businesses and government while offering work and inclusion to people with mental illness.
inherit.eu+2
IEDublin, Ireland
A citizen-led community garden created by residents in 2005 on a corner plot in Stoneybatter, Dublin 7. Doubling as a composting demonstration site, it has won several Dublin City Council awards for waste management and environmental design.
desireland.ie+1
SEStockholm, Sweden
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.
axfoundation.se+1
PEComas, Lima, Peru
A community organic garden in Comas, in the largely rainless megacity of Lima, run largely by elderly migrant women — a citizen-led urban farm fostering food security, climate adaptation and community ties.
foodtank.com+1
PTLisbon, Portugal
One of the first municipal horticultural parks opened by Lisbon in 2011, turning vacant lots and run-down parks into plots tended by residents — a leading Portuguese example of urban farming that links green infrastructure with social inclusion and food education.
informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt+1
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A self-harvest urban farm on a former sports-park site in Amsterdam-Noord, run by a collective of eco-entrepreneurs where members harvest weekly from naturally-farmed beds.
stadstuinderijnoordoogst.nl+1
ECQuito, Ecuador
An urban garden initiative that began operating in Quito, Ecuador, in 2015, providing people with severe mental health problems with work and income through agroecological organic food production, and with a place of social participation. The idea emerged in 2014 from an assembly of users, families and professionals at a community mental health service in northern Quito, and by the end of 2015 the group had secured a plot in Nayón on the edge of Quito.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov+2
PELima, Peru
A multi-sectoral project in the rocky peripheral settlements of the Pachacámac district south of metropolitan Lima, Peru, targeting households with children aged 0–3. Community health promoters delivered home and community gardening, nutrition and parenting workshops in sequence, aiming to improve early child development and household food security. The design uses gardens as an entry point to nutrition and parenting rather than as a stand-alone activity.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
JPKobe (中央区), Japan
A citizen-participation community garden based in Ikutacho Park, near Shin-Kobe station, created as part of Kobe City's "Kobe Saien Project". Alongside vegetable growing it focuses on making sustainable living tangible — composting, resource cycling and soil building. The operators describe composting not as waste disposal but as "a small doorway into the cycle that connects people, neighbourhood and nature", aiming to start local cycling from curiosity and enjoyment rather than from environmental problems framed as difficult.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+1
JPKobe (長田区), Japan
A group based at a community garden in Mano, Nagata Ward, Kobe, where children and local residents learn hands-on how food, farming and the environment connect. Using a small garden inside a residential area, it runs a "sixth-industry" model covering not just growing and harvesting but processing and selling. Spent coffee grounds collected from local cafés are composted in a community composter and returned to the garden.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+1