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JPTokyo, Japan
A citizen project keeping bees on Ginza rooftops to make urban green networks visible. Linked to rooftop gardens and local food culture, it helped spark urban beekeeping across Japan.
gin-pachi.jp+3
DEBerlin, Germany
A mobile community garden reviving a vacant lot in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Its DIY container growing and composting made it a flagship example of reusing idle urban land through citizen participation.
prinzessinnengarten.net+2
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.
ceres.org.au+1
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NLRotterdam, Netherlands
A rooftop farm opened in 2012 on the Schieblock in central Rotterdam, the largest open-air roof farm in the Netherlands and an educational hub for urban agriculture and climate resilience.
dakakker.nl+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Opened in 2022 atop Mitsubishi Estate's Otemachi Building, this sharing-type community farm invites anyone to take part, growing vegetables collectively under a concept of creating new urban 'commons'.
prtimes.jp+1
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.
paris.fr+1
KRSeoul, South Korea
Urban agriculture promoted as policy by the City of Seoul, with box-shaped plots on rooftops and building gaps where residents grow vegetables together; the city and districts subsidize most setup costs and run classes that foster community.
m.koreatimes.co.kr+1
ESSeville, Spain
A permaculture garden on about 5,000 m2 of vacant land in Seville's historic centre, occupied by residents in 2004 for communal use. Grounded in recycling and self-management, it remains a rare green space and site of environmental education downtown.
una.city+1
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.
seattle.gov+3
USSan Diego, United States
The IRC turned a 2.3-acre vacant lot in San Diego's City Heights into an urban farm for refugees and immigrants. Opened in 2009, around 70 families grow foods from their homelands while putting down roots in a new country.
sandiego.gov+1
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.
centreformentalhealth.org.uk+1
JPTama, Japan
In 2014 Aiwa Elementary in Tama became Japan's first Edible Schoolyard, modeled on Alice Waters' Berkeley program. The school garden and kitchen serve as 'living classrooms' where children learn through all five senses, from sowing to harvest, cooking and eating, as a formal subject. Pupils experience nutrient cycles, the interconnection of life and ties to their community.
edibleschoolyard-japan.org+2
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.
kaipatiki.nz+2
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A movable organic garden built inside builders' skips in the middle of the King's Cross redevelopment in London. Made largely (~90%) from reclaimed materials, with beehives and bug hotels, it turned a gap space into a site for youth education and community.
globalgeneration.org.uk+1
JPOsaka, Japan
Launched Osaka's first urban beekeeping on the rooftop of the Yanmar Building in Umeda's Chayamachi district in March 2010. Rather than honey itself, its aim is promoting local greening through bee pollination and providing food and environmental education. It has expanded with an experience-based apiary in Hattori Ryokuchi park.
u-mitsubachi.com+3
JPFukuoka, Japan
A Fukuoka (Hakata) based NPO devoted to urban beekeeping and public outreach about honeybees. Under the motto that a town where bees fly is a good town, it keeps bees on building rooftops and other sites, drawing attention to the city's vanishing nature and linking people with nature and their community.
seibutsutayousei.city.fukuoka.lg.jp+3
JPNagoya, Japan
An urban-beekeeping NPO based in Naka-ku, Nagoya, formed in the wake of the 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity COP10 held in Nagoya. It keeps bees on a rooftop in the Nishiki district to raise interest in biodiversity and the environment through downtown beekeeping.
maruhachi-project.com+2
USChicago, United States
A West-Side Chicago urban-beekeeping cooperative founded by three urban beekeepers in 2004. Originally aimed at job training in an area with scarce employment, it now runs more than 50 hives across the city with a focus on education, health, and awareness of urban nature.
chicagohoneycoop.com+1
USSeattle, United States
A demonstration completed in fall 2012 that turned two concrete walls at the University of Washington's Gould Hall into urban habitat, combining a biodiversity green wall, an edible green screen, and rainwater harvesting. Roof-collected rainwater irrigates hop and kiwi vines, demonstrating reduced energy use, heat-island mitigation, and increased urban biodiversity.
sustainability.uw.edu+1
USNew Orleans, United States
Founded in 2006, this was the first replication of Alice Waters' Berkeley Edible Schoolyard. Gardens encircling the school and a kitchen classroom serve as living classrooms where students at low-income public charter schools learn from seed to table as part of the regular curriculum, now spread across four FirstLine schools.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
USBrooklyn, New York, United States
Opened in 2010 by transforming a concrete parking lot at Brooklyn's P.S. 216 into a half-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom, this is the NYC demonstration school. Children learn from seed to plate while growing about 160 crops, and the model has expanded to network schools in East Harlem and the Bronx, reaching thousands of students.
edibleschoolyard.org+1
JPChuo, Tokyo, Japan
Opened in spring 2022 on a building rooftop in Tokyo's Nihonbashi-Kayabacho, this urban community garden grows about 200 species of edible plants. Run by Heiwa Real Estate with Edible Schoolyard Japan as an 'edible schoolyard' in the city, it hosts food education for the nearby Sakamoto Elementary School and community exchange, and has won green-city awards.
edibleschoolyard-japan.org+1
JPChuo, Tokyo, Japan
Following its work at Aiwa Elementary in Tama, Edible Schoolyard Japan extended edible education to central Tokyo, where pupils of Chuo Ward's Sakamoto Elementary School take edible lessons linked to the nearby Edible KAYABAEN rooftop garden. It brings garden-based food education, from seed to table, into an inner-city public elementary school.
ediblekayabaen.jp+3
GBLondon (national), United Kingdom
Launched in 2007 by the Royal Horticultural Society, this is the UK's largest school-gardening campaign. It gives children aged 2–18 opportunities to grow plants and connect with nature, supporting over 30,000 schools and groups and some 2.1 million children, and promotes gardening as a teaching tool through teacher training and resources.
rhs.org.uk+1
JPKobe, Japan
Kobe's urban-farming push covers gardens in downtown parks, vacant lots and rooftops where residents grow and harvest their own food. Beyond raising interest in agriculture, it builds community and tackles city issues such as putting vacant land and houses to use, with the city's Machi no Noen Navi guiding people to the spots.
city.kobe.lg.jp+1
JPKobe, Japan
A Kobe City effort in the rural Kita and Nishi wards to promote urban-rural exchange and rural settlement. In countryside only about 30 minutes from the city center, rural-settlement coordinators bridge visitors to residency amid vacant-house and abandoned-farmland challenges, while residents, students and universities work on satoyama biodiversity conservation and terraced-field restoration.
city.kobe.lg.jp+2
JPNerima, Tokyo, Japan
Using Tokyo's Agricultural Landscape Conservation District system, Nerima designated the Takamatsu (2015) and Minami-Oizumi (2019) districts. It carries dwindling urban farmland forward as open space and protects the agricultural landscape community-wide — a leading case of urban farmland conservation.
city.nerima.tokyo.jp+4
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.
city.yokohama.lg.jp+3
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.
city.saitama.lg.jp+1
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.
jacom.or.jp+1
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.
tosinouti.or.jp+1
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.
ur-net.go.jp+4
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.
ur-net.go.jp+2
JPMinato, Tokyo, Japan
A rooftop paddy and field in Mori Building's Roppongi Hills where, for over 20 years, residents and workers and their children have planted and harvested rice. A pioneering case embedding a Japanese agricultural landscape and community activity within a high-rise mixed-use development.
mori.co.jp+2
JPMinato, Tokyo, Japan
An orchard, edible garden and urban beekeeping programme within the large green spaces of Azabudai Hills (opened 2023). An ~200 sqm orchard grows 11 fruit species plus herbs and edible plants; children's honey harvests and greening workshops connect residents, workers and citizens to food and farming in the city centre.
azabudai-hills.com+2
JPChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
An urban-beekeeping project by Mitsubishi Estate and the Ecozzeria Association on rooftops in the Otemachi-Marunouchi district. Area workers join beekeeping, honey harvesting and forage planting, with the honey circulating back into the district — a worker-participation model of rooftop food/biodiversity town-making.
ecozzeria.jp+2
JP京都市 / Kyoto, Japan
A rain garden built by Kyoto City at a road intersection using traditional garden-making techniques such as karesansui (dry landscape). It takes in road runoff through an inlet and temporarily stores and infiltrates it in a gravel bed (suhama) up to ~30 cm thick, simultaneously delivering flood mitigation, groundwater recharge, heat-island relief, water purification and landscaping—an iconic multifunctional green infrastructure case.
city.kyoto.lg.jp+1
JP東京都世田谷区 / Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
The corridor created by undergrounding the Odakyu line (Shimokita Senrogai) was regenerated as continuous green infrastructure of a rain-garden plaza, open meadow and planting strips. The municipal Shimokita Rain Garden Plaza is designed so people can cross on stepping stones even when water pools, delivering stormwater management, biodiversity and community. The citizen group Shimokita Engei-bu is deeply involved through planting, beekeeping and composting.
shimokitazawa.info+2
DEアンダーナッハ / Andernach, Germany
A unique German city-led project that replaced ornamental flowerbeds with edible crops in public space, free for citizens to harvest. Spanning ~8,000 sqm in the city center plus 13 ha in the suburbs, it is internationally known as multifunctional productive green infrastructure delivering food supply, biodiversity, social cohesion and education at once.
use.metropolis.org+2
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.
grownyc.org+1
JPTokyo, Japan
A greened low-rise terrace of a Takeshiba office tower with a rice paddy, vegetable beds and beehives, run as corporate branding offering growing experiences to workers and local children.
tokyu-land.co.jp+3
JPTokyo, Japan
Urban beekeeping launched March 2016 on the rooftop of Mitsukoshi's Nihonbashi flagship — a clear example of a for-profit (department store) using city ecology and local food culture for its own branding.
mi-journey.jp+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A rooftop community garden at IKEA's flagship Greenwich store (opened 2019), where a retailer combines branding with citizen participation by opening the space free to the community.
ikea.com
CAVancouver, Canada
A hotel chain's rooftop beekeeping program begun in 2008, spanning 20+ properties — a flagship corporate CSR linking brand sustainability with guest participation.
fairmontbeesustainable.com+1
USNew York, United States
A real-estate firm built a Brooklyn Grange-operated organic rooftop farm atop its office building for tenant employees — a flagship corporate (real-estate) branding rooftop farm.
agritecture.com
JPTokyo, Japan
A participatory farm inside Yebisu Garden Place run jointly by the Urban Farmers Club NPO and Sapporo Real Estate — a corporate-partnership case turning a developer's complex into a citizen growing space.
workmill.jp+1
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.
note.com+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Community gardens created under the JR Chuo Line viaduct by the NPO birth and JR East with citizen participation (since 2014) — a pattern for using railway viaduct gap space for citizen greening.
npo-birth.org+3
JPKawasaki, Japan
A Kawasaki planned-road site (~640㎡) used by the community as interim greenery/growing space until the road project advances — a pattern of citizens temporarily using a government project site.
mlit.go.jp+2
JPYokohama, Japan
An under-used Yokohama city soil-storage site turned into an interim community garden by a local group — a pattern of citizens temporarily using government under-used land.
mlit.go.jp+2
JPIshinomaki, Japan
In tsunami-hit Ogatsu (Ishinomaki), citizens turned disaster- and relocation-vacated land into a flower garden (opened 2012, relocated/reopened 2018) — a model of interim land use and community recovery.
gardenstory.jp+1
GBGlasgow, United Kingdom
A Glasgow program (since 2011) putting stalled development sites to interim use as citizen gardens, with the city enabling temporary use via short-term leases and grants — a leading overseas example.
glasgow.gov.uk
ATVienna, Austria
A Vienna program (since 2015) that funds citizens to temporarily turn public space into gardens, growing spaces and parklets — an overseas model of government funding citizen interim use.
planetizen.com
FRParis, France
Paris's 2015 citizen greening permit and Parisculteurs calls open public space and rooftops to citizen/operator urban farming via temporary occupation permits — a leading institution-based interim-use example.
parisculteurs.paris
USChicago, United States
A Chicago land trust (founded 1996) that secures citizens' otherwise-temporary community gardens permanently by taking title and leasing back at a nominal fee — the 'permanent-protection' end of interim use.
neighbor-space.org
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.
journal.hep.com.cn+1
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).
nature.org+1
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.
mooool.com+1
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.
theworldofchinese.com+1
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.
mdpi.com+1
TRIstanbul, Turkey
Historic market gardens (bostans) surviving along Istanbul's Theodosian Walls since Byzantine and Ottoman times. While preserving organic urban agriculture and heirloom seeds, gardeners, citizens and activists have joined forces to resist redevelopment plans. The Yedikule marul (lettuce) has become a symbol of their struggle.
anfenglish.com+4
LBBeirut, Lebanon
Amid Beirut's economic crisis and food insecurity, a citizen-run urban-farming garden on the rooftop of an art center. As a counter to monocultural and monopolistic structures, it offers a model of local cooperation grounded in sharing and collaboration.
beirutartcenter.org+1
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.
city-farmer.ru+1
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.
entermedia.io+1
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.
bogota.gov.co+1
CAToronto, Canada
An 8-acre urban farm in Toronto's vulnerable Jane-Finch neighbourhood dedicated to food justice, education and sustainability. It was founded in 2013 with Everdale Environmental Learning Centre and the TRCA as founding partners.
blackcreekfarm.ca+1
CAToronto, Canada
Two rooftop farms on the TMU (formerly Ryerson) campus that combine food production, research and community engagement through ecological rooftop farming. It began when a 2004 green roof was converted into a market garden in 2013 by a student-led initiative.
torontomu.ca+1
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.
cityfarmer.info+2
INKolkata, India
The world's largest sewage-fed wetland and a Ramsar site where Kolkata's peri-urban community produces food and treats sewage through collective practices. Spanning ~12,500 hectares, it performs the threefold functions of food production, sewage treatment and drainage.
indiawaterportal.org+2
IDMalang, Indonesia
Launched in February 2012 by RW 23 leader Bambang Irianto in Malang's Purwantoro area, 'Glintung Go Green (3G)' is a resident movement that transformed a flood-prone, crime- and sanitation-challenged kampung through alley-wall gardens, vertical farming and water-infiltration wells, achieving food security and environmental improvement.
mongabay.co.id+1
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.
coton-farm.com+2
JPKobe, Japan
A Tanemaki LAB venture, centered on Kobe, that multiplies urban gardens on rooftops, idle land and in parks. With small empty-handed gardens and dispatched farmers, it spreads greening, community exchange and the joy of urban farming, and has expanded into local distribution such as the KOBE Veggie Bus.
tanemakilab.jp+2
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.
eatlocalkobe.org+3
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.
city.kobe.lg.jp+3
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.
doed.gov.taipei+2
TWTaipei, Taiwan
A flagship neighborhood-level case of the Garden City program, where Jin'an Li residents turned neglected spaces into three green sites-a rooftop vegetable garden, a rainwater farm and a corner herb garden-while weaving in local history and creative placemaking.
peopo.org+1
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.
mdpi.com
TWNew Taipei, Taiwan
Launched in 2015 as Taiwan's first 'participatory rooftop farm' scheme, where community residents jointly maintain green roofs, strengthening local cohesion while practicing low-carbon living. The Dongying Li activity center in Yingge District is a flagship site.
epd.ntpc.gov.tw+1
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.
news.seoul.go.kr+1
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.
suwon.go.kr+1
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.
kebunkebunbangsar.org+2
JPSendai, Miyagi, Japan
The Sendai Furusato-no-Mori project is a collaborative effort to rebuild eastern coastal Sendai's seaside forest, lost to the tsunami, with citizens' own hands. After planting that began in 2011 it has raised some 27,000 seedlings, shifting since 2021 to tree-nurturing and coastal nature learning.
sendai-furumori.org+2
JPMatsue, Shimane, Japan
A project in Matsue's Oba/Sorayama district where the NPO Machizukuri Network Shimane and Shimane Prefecture jointly regenerate degraded farmland. Residents grow 'edible' fruiting trees and vegetables together, cutting CO2 and renewing local interest in farming and food while the restored land is used as citizen farms.
pref.shimane.lg.jp
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.
city.kochi.kochi.jp
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.
note.com+1
JPToyama, Toyama, Japan
An urban farm running beekeeping and growing of sweet potatoes and edamame on the Toyama Civic Plaza rooftop since 2018. It serves as a food-education and awareness space focused on pollinators and the urban environment.
siminplaza.co.jp
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+2
JPFukui, Fukui, Japan
Ichijodani Asakura Mizunoeki, opened by Fukui City as a farming-experience facility in 2010. Through its experience farm and biotope, families and schoolchildren learn about food and farming via rice planting, vegetable growing, and nature observation.
city.fukui.lg.jp+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
DKCopenhagen, Denmark
An organic farm on a rooftop above the concrete city. Begun in 2014, it pairs a CSA with citizen participation to shorten the distance between city and countryside.
oestergro.dk+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
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
GRThessaloniki, Greece
A self-managed peri-urban cultivation project begun by citizens reclaiming an abandoned former military camp in post-crisis Thessaloniki. Regarded as one of Greece's most active citizen-led urban-farming initiatives, it demonstrates community agency against the privatisation of land.
agri-madre.net+1
JPTokyo, Japan
A long-running movement reviving Tokyo's near-lost heirloom 'Edo-Tokyo vegetables' in city schools, a horticultural high school and allotments. Over nearly 30 years more than 50 varieties have been registered, linking heritage food culture and farming to the next generation via school lunches and food education.
tokyo-ja.or.jp+3
JPTokyo (Edogawa), Japan
In Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, said to be the birthplace of komatsuna greens, urban farmers grow the heritage crop on plots dotted through residential neighborhoods and deliver directly to 92 schools, passing local food culture and urban agriculture to children via synchronized school lunches and harvest events.
ja-tokyosmile.or.jp+1
JPKanazawa, Japan
Kanazawa's 15 certified 'Kaga vegetables' heirlooms are grown, harvested and cooked by schoolchildren in integrated-study programs and featured in food-education booklets and lunches, transmitting the city's heritage food culture and history to the next generation.
www4.city.kanazawa.lg.jp+3
JPOsaka, Japan
Osaka certifies 'Naniwa traditional vegetables'—heirlooms nearly lost to urbanization—and uses them in school gardens and lunches as 'living teaching material,' letting pupils taste and learn the food culture and farming nurtured by Osaka's historic 'kitchen of the nation.'
city.osaka.lg.jp+3
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
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
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam in 2025 is promoting policies to include rooftop farms in new construction through grants, building code modifications, and LEED incentives. Rooftop yields range from 2-3 kg/m² depending on crop; some cases achieve 6,310 kg annually from 150m² two-layer system. Target: supply 25% of city's food demand locally by 2030 and increase resident awareness/participation to 20% by 2026.
environmentalconsortium.org+1
HKKowloon, Hong Kong
Asia's largest publicly accessible rooftop farm (1,200 sqm) at Metroplaza in Kowloon, flagship of Rooftop Republic's 50+ urban farm network across Hong Kong.
rooftoprepublic.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.
himmelbeet.de+4
DEBerlin (nationwide), Germany
A German education program built on the idea that the field is the best classroom, fostering children's understanding of food and nature through school gardens. Its hands-on curriculum, cultivating a corner of the schoolyard or school grounds, builds appreciation of food, healthy eating and awareness of food waste. It has grown into the largest school-garden network in the German-speaking world.
gemueseackerdemie.de+2
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.
ortidipinti.it+2
DKCopenhagen, Denmark
A vacant plot in Copenhagen's former industrial district of Refshaleøen transformed into one of Scandinavia's largest urban farms. Integrating fields, bees and chickens with a restaurant, it models regenerative agriculture and food experiences in the city, carrying forward the ØsterGro legacy of connecting people and nature through farming and food.
oenshave.dk+2
NOOslo, Norway
A permanent commons of art and urban agriculture created on reclaimed land above a highway tunnel in central Oslo. Conceived by the artist group Futurefarmers' Flatbread Society, it weaves food culture and land stories around a boat-shaped public bakehouse (2016) and an ancient-grain field, and has become Norway's flagship urban-farming site.
loseter.no+2
IEDublin, Ireland
A collective garden in inner-city Dublin bearing the name of the old 'Mud Island' area mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses. Residents transformed a derelict site that had cost the city thousands to clear each year into a green community hub, notable for fully collective cultivation with shared harvests. It has won multiple awards as a leading Dublin community garden.
mudisland.ie+1
MXMexico City, Mexico
A 1,650 m² urban farm on an earthquake-cleared site in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district. Growing by agroecological principles, with an edible forest and seed bank at its heart, it delivers food education as a model of agrarian urbanism.
cultivaciudad.org+3
ZWHarare, Zimbabwe
A pioneering centre on the outskirts of Harare that has taught permaculture and organic farming for over three decades. Credited with influencing nearly every related project in Zimbabwe, from urban and peri-urban gardens to rural farms, it trains practitioners of climate-resilient agriculture around the capital.
fambidzanai.org.zw+2
NGLagos, ナイジェリア
Self-help horticultural gardens managed by residents in the Eti-osa Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria, utilizing road set-backs to address limited land availability while greening the community.
doi.org
JPTokyo, 日本
Tokyo-based rooftop urban garden program utilizing multiple building rooftops to transform unused spaces into agricultural, educational, and community activity spaces.
sciencedirect.com
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
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
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
KRSeoul, South Korea
Urban agriculture policy initiated in 2012. Seoul boasts about 200 hectares of rooftop farmland. Creating 264 Seoul-type Urban Vegetable Gardens. Farm clinics held at 4,000 urban farm sites across 19 districts.
english.seoul.go.kr
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
GRAthens, Greece
Large-scale community farm project in Antonis Tritsis Park, Athens. 50,000 square meters of park land transformed into community food production area. Integrates urban greening with food production. Operates with citizen participation and educational programs. A significant-scale example of urban agriculture in Greece.
astydama.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
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
FRParis, France
An edible facade in Paris: hops climbing a 600 m2 wall on the Bastille opera house terrace farm.
freshplaza.com+1
BDDhaka, Bangladesh
A rooftop greening and urban agriculture program run by Bangladesh's agriculture extension agency to green and feed the dense city of Dhaka
unb.com.bd+1
ZWBulawayo, Zimbabwe
An organization advancing urban farming and greening in Zimbabwe's second city Bulawayo, fostering community nurseries and farmer cooperatives
greenhut.org
GHAccra, Ghana
A home-gardening initiative Solidaridad launched in Accra in 2023, encouraging urban households to grow safe, nutritious vegetables
graphic.com.gh+3
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
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
GBLondon (Beckton), United Kingdom
One of London's oldest city farms, run by Newham Council. In 2022 its closure was decided as part of the borough's austerity budget (a further £7.6M of cuts).
newhamrecorder.co.uk+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
HUBudapest, Hungary
Budapest peri-urban agroforestry and community gardens. Case study of agricultural preservation amid post-socialist urbanization. Research focus on urban-rural relationships.
tandfonline.com+1
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
NZWellington, New Zealand
Urban food forest developing in Wellington's inner city as of May 2025. Research on post-disaster food security potential. Studies on vegetable self-sufficiency rates and nutritional content from community gardens.
doi.org
NZChristchurch, New Zealand
Urban food forest developing in Christchurch's inner city as of May 2025. Community-led food production and environmental regeneration initiative.
verticalfarmingforum.com
AUSydney, Australia
700+ community gardens across Australia with ~20,000 weekly participants. Cultivating fresh produce, learning, relaxation, and community connection.
doi.org
USNew York, United States
A pioneering for-profit rooftop soil farm operating across several NYC buildings, balancing commercial production with education and community, and widely cited as a model for urban rooftop agriculture.
brooklyngrangefarm.com
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
THBangkok, Thailand
Thammasat University's rooftop farm is Asia's largest organic facility spanning 236,806 sq ft. Grows over 40 edible species of crops including rice, indigenous vegetables, fruit trees, and herbs. Integrates modern landscape architecture with sustainable food production, renewable energy, organic waste management, and water conservation.
architizer.com+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
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+1
COBogota, Colombia
Bogota operates an agroecology network of 8,000+ urban gardens mapped and networked via platform. Mobile app (AUPA) launched in 2022 delivers digital training and support. Aims to strengthen 20,000 gardens and train 40,000 people.
use.metropolis.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
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
DKCopenhagen, Denmark
Organic rooftop garden opened in March 2011 on Blågårds School in Nørrebro. Copenhagen was named European Green Capital in 2014, and now has active urban agriculture and colony garden culture, with emerging technologies like vertical farming.
gradynewsource.uga.edu+1
DEBerlin, Germany
Berlin's highest urban gardening project located on the rooftop of Neukölln Arkaden shopping centre. Features herb and coloring plant cultivation, with guided tours and garden experiences for visitors.
cityfarmer.info+1
NLRotterdam, Netherlands
Europe's largest open-air rooftop farm at 1000m² on the Schieblock in Rotterdam. Produces vegetables, edible flowers, fruits, and herbs while keeping bees. Community-operated
brightvibes.com
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
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
FRParis, France
City of Paris program launched in 2016 to accelerate urban agriculture. Identifies diverse sites (rooftops, walls, parking lots, vacant lots) for farmer production. Goal of planting 100 hectares of vegetation across Paris
resilientcitiesnetwork.org
FRParis, France
Network of 10 rooftop farms across Paris operated by Agripolis (since 2017). Produces ~1000kg vegetables daily in high season. Vertical closed-loop system using no water waste and no pesticides. Operated by ~20 farmers
positive.news
DKCopenhagen, Denmark
Denmark's first rooftop farm, opened in 2014 atop a former car-auction house in Copenhagen's Østerbro district. With a 600 m² organic growing area plus a greenhouse, henhouse and beehives, it connects food and nature in the heart of the city through a CSA and volunteers.
wonderfulcopenhagen.com+1
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
FIHelsinki, Finland
Dodo's urban-farming centre on a former railway turntable in Helsinki's Pasila yard — an open hub with a greenhouse, café and gardens that has helped lead Finland's citizen-driven urban gardening movement.
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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
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.
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DKCopenhagen, Denmark
Denmark's first rooftop farm, built atop a five-storey former car-auction building. Run as a CSA in which citizens invest and participate, with an on-site restaurant serving the harvest.
oestergro.dk+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
ESBarcelona, Spain
A self-managed community garden born from the 2011 15-M (Indignados) movement by reclaiming a vacant lot — seen as a symbol of resistance to speculative development and the 'right to the city'.
hortindignat2poblenou.wordpress.com+1
SEGothenburg, Sweden
A neighbourhood urban-farming project begun in Gothenburg's Högsbo and Bergsjön that combines cultivation with citizen 'foster' sponsorship of goats and pigs.
stadsjord.se+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A 13-hectare (32-acre) urban farm and park in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, east London. The site had been a dumping ground for dock excavation spoil since the 1860s; when the Port of London Authority moved to transfer it for housing in the early 1970s, the Association of Island Communities ran a successful campaign to keep it as public open space, and the farm was established in 1977.
en.wikipedia.org
JPKobe (北区), Japan
A community group based in Ogo-cho, Kita Ward, Kobe, that since 2019 has been clearing neglected bamboo groves and putting the bamboo to use. Left alone, bamboo encroaches on fields, degrades the landscape and shelters crop-raiding animals, so continuous cutting is needed to return the hills to open, managed satoyama. Under the motto "tasty and fun", bamboo and shoots are upcycled instead of discarded — into domestic menma, bamboo craft and the transmission of those skills, and fertiliser made from bamboo chips. Its bamboo-chip compost is used in the Kobe Compost Project's public workshops.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+3
JPKobe (須磨区), Japan
An open space on the edge of the Tainohata settlement in Suma Ward, Kobe, run by the workers' co-operative Hata, whose proposals for daily life include "a life that makes soil". Since the previous year it has run a cycling garden: vegetable scraps from its kitchen are broken down by microbes in the garden composter into soil, that soil goes back to the beds, the beds become habitat for a range of living things, and flowers and vegetables are harvested and eaten. It invites neighbours and users to compost at home too, using the compost themselves or bringing any surplus back to Hata, so the cycle is shared.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+2
AUMelbourne, Australia
A publicly accessible farm on the Yarra River close to central Melbourne, opened in 1979. It keeps a wide range of animals — cows, goats, sheep, horses, ducks, pigs, chickens, geese, peacocks and guinea pigs — most of them rare breeds, including Nubian goats. The land was cultivated for Murnong by Indigenous peoples and has been farmed since 1838. It exists so that city children can encounter animals and farm work, and it also provides vegetable plots.
en.wikipedia.org
JPKobe (長田区), Japan
A community garden in Shin-Minatogawa Park, Nagata, run by a neighbourhood group as an edible park focused on organic growing and mutual aid.
city.kobe.lg.jp+2
JPKobe (垂水区), Japan
Residents jointly steward a former municipal housing site in Shioya, Tarumi—not private allotments but club-style growing of veg, herbs and grapes with shared harvests and picnics.
city.kobe.lg.jp
JPNagoya, Aichi, Japan
Started April 2023 on vacant land at Nagoya’s Higashi Betsuin. Regenerative edible gardening aims to make Nagoya an edible city; about fifty people drop in between work and childcare, practising urban carbon sequestration.
greenjourney.net+2
JPShibuya, Tokyo, Japan
A grow-enabled farm beside SLOTH JINNAN TERRACE in Shibuya’s Jinnan. Grows revived Shibuya tea, Jerusalem artichoke and greens for hyper-local Farm-to-Table in central Tokyo.
growshare.jp
JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
note.com+2
JPHigashisumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan
Opened 2009 on a former municipal-housing site in Yata, Higashi-Sumiyoshi. A ward–citizen farm for flower/vegetable place-making, engaging hundreds each year—Osaka’s flagship urban kleingarten.
city.osaka.lg.jp+2
IEDublin, Ireland
A 38-acre (15 ha) farm and garden estate on Overend Avenue in Dundrum, south Dublin, centred on a house built around 1830. The Overend sisters kept a Victorian-era farm going in the midst of a suburbanising region and left it as a trust in 1974. It keeps Jersey cattle, Jacob sheep, Oxford Sandy and Black pigs, Saanen goats, Rhode Island Red chickens, Irish Angus cattle and donkeys, and practises organic farming and soil regeneration. Its eight acres of gardens include ornamental planting and a walled garden alongside a three-acre organic food garden growing seasonal crops.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A city farm inside Haggerston Park in the London Borough of Hackney, established in 1984 as a community and educational resource. It is home to poultry, sheep, rabbits, bees, pigs and a donkey, with a farmyard, grazing area, garden and a tree nursery with a butterfly house. It runs educational projects, exhibitions, craft courses and farm trails, and was visited in 2009 by the then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.
en.wikipedia.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A citizens' initiative to develop an agro-ecological landscape park in the Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, near Schiphol, combining sustainable food production, nature development, education and recreation. It was established in 2022 after years of protest against plans for industrial development, and in May 2025 won the municipal tender to develop the 9.5-hectare parcel kavel N5; in July 2025 the municipality allocated 26 hectares in total to urban agriculture.
nl.wikipedia.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A green area in Oud Osdorp, Amsterdam Nieuw-West, spread on both sides of the Osdorperweg. Designated as undeveloped in the 1935 Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan and confirmed as recreational land in the 2003 structuurplan, its development began in 2009. It belongs to the 'green fingers' idea conceived by the urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren and serves ecological connectivity as part of the Groene As. Made up of four polders, it contains allotment parks, a bee park, the Fruittuin van West orchard opened in 2014, and urban agriculture enterprises.
nl.wikipedia.org
BEBrussels, Belgium
An experimental, participatory garden on a Brussels rooftop. It is worked as a natural but intensive garden, mixing vegetables, aromatic plants and small fruits for eating with wild and indigenous species for biodiversity on the same roof. Le Début des Haricots asbl, which runs it, also supports the founding of collective gardens across the city through Brussels Environment's "Inspirons le Quartier" call, so this rooftop is where the organisation tries things out itself. Belgium was previously represented in this database only by Chant des Cailles in Brussels, so this adds a different kind of space — a roof.
haricots.org+1
CHGeneva, Switzerland
A citizens' vegetable garden opened in 2024 inside Parc Bertrand in the City of Geneva, with 255 m² of cultivable surface divided into plots. It was initiated by Le cardon enchanté, an association of neighbourhood residents. Over roughly the past twenty years nearly 80 collective vegetable garden projects have emerged in the city, turning lawns, planter boxes and fallow spaces in residential neighbourhoods into places of exchange and sharing. Because putting a garden on municipal land requires a formal request to the City, it is an example of resident initiative meshing with an administrative route. Switzerland was previously represented here only by Les Jardins de Cocagne in Geneva and Quartierhof Wynegg in Zurich, so this adds a small plot-based garden inside a public park.
geneve.ch+1
USSeattle, United States
A seven-acre (2.8 ha) food forest on Beacon Hill in Seattle, next to Jefferson Park. Started in 2012, it is planted with apple, pear, plum, quince, medlar and hazelnut alongside vegetables, and its sust̓əlǰixʷali Traditional Indian Medicine garden grows Indigenous medicinal plants. The land belongs to Seattle Public Utilities, and the site is believed to be the largest food forest on public land in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org
DKCopenhagen, Denmark
A self-built allotment (kolonihave) settlement on the north-west shore of Amager in Copenhagen, just south of Islands Brygge. It began in the 1930s with permission to use reclaimed land, and residents built their own huts and worked their gardens there. Negotiation with the city gave it standing as an allotment association, and it is now regulated by some 100 individual leases.
en.wikipedia.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A park for beekeeping in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The first park opened in 1936 along Sloterweg in the Riekerpolder, and a newer one followed in 1965 on Osdorperweg in the De Eendracht polder. The grounds combine ornamental gardens with beekeepers' gardens, and include a small beekeeping museum holding the AVBB documentation centre. The Stichting Bijenpark Amsterdam has managed the sites since 1953.
nl.wikipedia.org
BEWoluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium
A Brussels example of "meanwhile" use: 2.5 hectares awaiting housing development are opened for a few years as a site for urban agriculture, biodiversity and community activity. Meadows, orchards, wetland, woodland and aromatic gardens on the site are used as they are, layering farming, nature observation and education on one plot.
citydev.brussels+1
EETallinn (Põhja-Tallinn), Estonia
Tallinn's largest and best-equipped citizen garden, at the corner of Kolde pst and Ehte tn on the Putukaväil (Pollinator Highway) green corridor in North Tallinn. Built out in spring 2024 on the foundation of a smaller garden that had run on the same site for five years, it offers raised beds, individual plots, a greenhouse and fruit trees. Its stated aim is to give city dwellers the joy of collective gardening while strengthening environmental awareness and a sense of community.
tallinn.ee+2
SILjubljana (Resljeva cesta, Tabor), Slovenia
A landmark 'meanwhile use' project: from 2010 to 2022 an unbuilt, municipally owned construction site on Resljeva cesta in central Ljubljana served as a community garden. Some 40 plots on 650 m² supported not only growing but public talks, cultural events and ecological learning. It wound up in 2022 when the city began building non-profit housing on the site.
interlace-hub.com+2
LKColombo (southern suburbs), Sri Lanka
A small patch of degraded wasteland used as a dumping ground, regenerated from 2013 by the environmental NGO ECO-V. Soil was rebuilt by composting organic waste, and the site was divided into two zones — an 'Eco Garden' urban forest and a 'Metta Garden' for pollinators and insects — combining a butterfly garden of native host plants with organic vegetable beds.
iucn.org
LKColombo, Sri Lanka
Metta Garden is a plot of degraded land in Colombo that the Sri Lankan environmental NGO Eco Friendly Volunteers (ECO-V) has been converting into a garden since 2013. Grounded in the Buddhist idea of metta (loving-kindness), it combines mixed vegetable beds, a butterfly corner, pollinator planting and areas left to native wild plants. Opened to the public in 2015, it now serves as a training site for organic growing and biodiversity.
eco-v.org
TRIstanbul, Turkey
A collective garden run by students and academics on the South Campus of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, started in spring 2012. It grew out of a 2011 occupation protesting the commercialisation of campus food and rising food prices, where participants proposed producing their own food, and it grew vegetables from heirloom seed without synthetic chemicals. After the 2013 Gezi Park protests it influenced a wave of similar community gardens across Istanbul.
en.wikipedia.org+1
KZAstana / Almaty, Kazakhstan
An effort to spread greenhouses and gardens through schools in Kazakhstan's capital Astana and in Almaty. The Bulat Utemuratov Foundation runs it as Zhasyl Mektep (Green School) across 36 schools, teaching children healthy-living habits and the basics of planting and growing. In Almaty the fourth season is under way with 16 pupil-managed greenhouses. In parallel, the Slow Food Community of Astana Urban Producers has created 20 school gardens over three years.
slowfood.com+2
GBCoventry, United Kingdom
Coventry City Council is opening underused council-owned land across the city so residents can create food-growing and wildlife gardens. Piloted as "Coventry Grows" in 2024, the citywide roll-out was announced in March 2026, prioritising neighbourhoods short of green space.
coventry.gov.uk
MACasablanca, Morocco
An 1,600 m² educational garden in Casablanca irrigated with treated wastewater. In the water-stressed Greater Casablanca region it demonstrates in practice that treated effluent can water green space and, in some cases, produce food — and takes that message to schools, government and business.
climate-chance.org
USRancho Cordova, California, United States
A nonprofit farming about 55 acres of county-owned land inside the American River Parkway at Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento, as an organic farm and food-and-environment education centre. It marked 25 years in 2025. Alongside growing, it restores riparian habitat, and the site includes classrooms, a certified kitchen, a native plant nursery and an outdoor classroom.
soilborn.org+2
UAKryvyi Rih, Ukraine
In Kryvyi Rih, one of Ukraine's main mining and steel cities, a civic initiative has tended a corner of a city park as a garden for eight years. Fruit trees and vegetables are grown in separate sections, with an information board naming the crops so park users can see food growing in the city.
enefcities.org.ua
LULuxembourg, Luxembourg
Five neighbourhood gardens the City of Luxembourg opened one by one, starting with Bonnevoie-Kaltreis in 2013 and ending with Grund in 2018. Residents manage each one, and all of them are restricted to organic growing — no pesticides, chemical fertilisers or GMOs. They are designed as gardens for the people of a given neighbourhood, and several sit in the dense valley quarters of the old city (Grund, Pfaffenthal, the Pétrusse valley) where houses have no gardens of their own.
vdl.lu
FRToulouse, France
A shared garden that opened on 11 March 2026 in the Croix-Daurade neighbourhood of Toulouse, on the site of a demolished building. The design deliberately keeps the existing trees and vegetation, limiting full-ground cultivation and placing planters only on the previously built-over areas. It took about half a year from the autumn 2025 consultation to the residents forming their own association.
metropole.toulouse.fr+1
MKSkopje (Novo Lisiče), North Macedonia
The first citizens' community garden in North Macedonia, in the Novo Lisiče park in Skopje. The civic association The Green Ark prepared it over two years from late 2019, opened it in August 2021, and opened it to the general public on 2 May 2022. The name "Bostanie" fuses "bostan" (a Turkish-derived word for cucurbits) with "vostanie" (uprising).
zivotnasredina.skopje.gov.mk+1
MEPodgorica, Montenegro
A volunteer-run community garden in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. Its symbiotic plan combines a food forest with market-garden areas, and the official site describes it as the largest ground-level community garden in Europe. Growing follows permaculture methods — regenerative agriculture, no-dig beds and cover cropping.
urbanabasta.me
BASarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The City of Sarajevo turned a decaying, underused plot into a garden and park combining sensory plantings with native species. Centred on supporting children and young people with developmental disabilities, it is described as a pioneering initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was delivered with the Sarajevo Regional Development Agency (SERDA), the Municipality of Novo Sarajevo and a local vocational school. It was labelled a URBACT Good Practice in October 2024.
urbact.eu
JMKingston, Jamaica
A project fitting inner-city schools and community sites in Kingston with gardens backed by rainwater harvesting and drip irrigation. It responds to the fact that the city's once-reliable rains have faltered with climate change, making it hard to grow without infrastructure that stores water and releases it slowly. More than JM$14 million (about US$90,000) went into four high schools, the Abilities Foundation and the Greenwich Town community, providing rainwater tanks, hydroponic greenhouses, container gardens and water-purification systems. Since starting in 2018, CityAdapt reports benefiting more than 130,000 people across Jamaica, El Salvador and Mexico.
cityadapt.com+1
USMemphis, United States
In the Raleigh neighbourhood of Memphis, Tennessee, a two-acre plot behind Star Academy Charter School was turned into a $1.5 million learning farm, Urban Roots of Tennessee, reported in August 2026. It includes a year-round greenhouse, a freshwater eco pond, a pollinator garden and learning beds, and serves pupils from pre-K to 8th grade. The school frames it as going beyond standardised-test preparation to teach children "how they can compete in these increasingly globalized and automated communities".
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LULuxembourg, Luxembourg
Community gardens in the Grünewald quarter of Luxembourg City's Kirchberg district. After temporary vegetable plots proved popular, Fonds Kirchberg developed more permanent gardens. Cultivation follows ecological criteria — no pesticides, chemical fertilisers or genetically modified organisms.
fondskirchberg.public.lu
KHPhnom Penh, Cambodia
A project creating agroecological vegetable gardens in the yards of Phnom Penh's public schools, so that students in a city with very little green space can work with soil and learn how food and environment connect. It starts from the gap between the WHO's recommended 9 m² of green space per capita and Phnom Penh's 1.1 m².
eclosio.ong+1
JOAmman, Jordan
A project turning part of a large Amman park into a residents' garden. It is framed around three goals — raising green cover in the city, softening climate-change impacts and improving food security — and creates a place where residents and Syrian refugees cultivate together. It sits within the municipality's 2022–2026 strategic plan to establish 12 parks across the capital.
jordan.un.org
JOAmman, Jordan
The first urban-farming training centre in Jordan, sited in a city park in Amman. Built to strengthen food security amid climate change and disrupted supply chains, it gives residents a place to learn how to grow vegetables and fruit trees in the city. The preceding project laid out a 6,000 m² community garden in the city and recovered 3,600 endangered trees using the Miyawaki planting method.
undp.org+1
ILJerusalem, Israel
A programme turning Jerusalem's vacant and neglected land into resident-tended gardens and green space, spanning over 120 acres. Alongside food growing, its pillars are tree planting, preservation of native vegetation and composting. Run jointly by the Jerusalem Foundation and the municipality's Department of Social Sustainability, it spans neighbourhoods across the city's religious and ethnic divides.
jerusalemfoundation.org
SILjubljana, Slovenia
Ljubljana's municipally run allotment scheme. The city offers about 1,100 plots across several organised garden areas, leased to residents at EUR 0.70–1.00 per m² per year. Three 'learning gardens' provide free year-round instruction in ecological gardening, so the scheme hands over not just a plot but the practice that goes with it.
ljubljana.si
CRCurridabat (San José), Costa Rica
A community garden in Curridabat, in Costa Rica's greater San José area, created by three young residents on unused urban land. It pairs organic-growing and permaculture workshops with gatherings such as film nights and bonfires, under the idea that cultivating land harvests not only food but community.
segib.org
ESSoria, Spain
Twenty-four ecological urban garden plots created by the city of Soria on what had been a run-down industrial edge in the Los Royales district. Part of the European-funded BRERA urban-renewal programme, the project 'renaturalises' a site of more than 7,000 m² to promote biodiversity and social cohesion. Inaugurated on 27 August 2026, it enters service in spring 2027 and brings the municipal total to 104 plots.
sorianoticias.com
HNTegucigalpa, Honduras
A public programme in Tegucigalpa that turns urban spaces into productive growing areas to strengthen food security. Its core is a demonstration and training centre where people who will manage urban gardens are trained, so that the techniques spread out to school and neighbourhood gardens.
pronaders.gob.hn+1
MUPort Louis, Mauritius
An agroforestry project on Priest Peak, one of the hills above Port Louis, where planting began in March 2021. Four hundred endemic plants and fruit trees have gone into one hectare, bringing greenery and edible trees back to the hillside behind the city. Rather than a vegetable garden, it is an urban woodland-plus-fruit-trees space maintained with residents.
forena.mu
FRNice (L'Ariane), France
A shared garden opened at 1 rue Sicou in the L'Ariane district of eastern Nice, inaugurated at 3pm on 8 July 2026. The 500 m² tree-planted plot had long worried residents as a site of recurrent antisocial use and sanitary problems; the city rehabilitated it into twenty growing plots for neighbourhood associations, families and schools.
lessentiel.fr+1
CZPrague (Krč, Prague 4), Czechia
A community garden opened on about five hectares of unused grassland beside the Velký háj woods in Krč, Prague 4. Inaugurated on 13 May 2026, it is described as the largest of its kind not only in Prague but in Czechia. Dozens of fruit trees and bushes have been planted, along with raised beds, a tool container and a fire pit; a wildflower meadow and vegetable plots are planned.
prazskypatriot.cz+1
CACalgary, Canada
A 30-acre urban farm on public land in southeast Calgary, formerly a construction site. Run by the settlement agency CCIS, it teaches newcomers to Canada how to grow food in southern Alberta's climate. Guided by Blackfoot Elder Herman Many Guns, its programming acknowledges the site as Treaty 7 territory. Soil restoration, biodiversity, composting, honey production and pollinator stewardship are central.
youngagrarians.org+2
DZAlgiers (El-Harrach, cité AADL Boumati), Algeria
Algeria's first shared garden, opened in 2012. It turned an interstitial patch left inside a collective housing estate into plots for the residents, and it was designed from the start to keep an ornamental look — vegetables and fruit trees interplanted with herbs and flowers so the garden would not read as a break in the cityscape.
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