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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.
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GBTodmorden, United Kingdom
A citizen movement in a small UK town planting free-to-harvest crops in public gaps. Its 'edible town' concept has spread to communities worldwide.
incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk
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
A station-front garden built on artificial ground over buried Odakyu rail tracks, offering 300+ plots across about 5,000 m2 as an accessible urban allotment for beginners.
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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.
city.nerima.tokyo.jp+4
JPTokyo, Japan
An urban-farming NPO that began on a Shibuya rooftop, building farms and rice paddies on rooftops and urban gaps around Harajuku, Shibuya and Ebisu so that citizens can cultivate together and turn Tokyo into an 'edible forest'.
urbanfarmers.club+1
JPKyoto, Japan
Founded in 2007 by Kazuma Nishitsuji, MyFarm rehabilitates abandoned farmland across Japan into accessible experience farms for city dwellers, under the philosophy of a 'grow-your-own, eat-your-own society'.
myfarm.co.jp+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
JPKoto, Tokyo, Japan
A licensed Koto-ward nursery in Tokyo built a full rooftop vegetable garden on its sunny roof in autumn 2019. Moving up from ground-floor planter boxes, children experience food education by sowing, observing, harvesting and cooking. MyFarm runs the monthly garden lessons, making it an urban model for pre-school children learning the link between farming and food.
myfarm.co.jp+1
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.
cityblossoms.org+1
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.
jun-namaken.com+2
JPTokyo, Japan
A community-compost project hubbed at an Omotesando food court where residents within a 2-km radius bring household food scraps to compost together; the finished compost and vegetable-growing foster 'neighborly ties starting from soil' in central Tokyo.
corp.4nature.co.jp+2
USLos Angeles, United States
In South Central Los Angeles, a 'food desert,' fashion designer Ron Finley began planting vegetables on curbside strips and vacant lots; it grew into a movement where residents build DIY edible gardens to provide fresh food and to teach nutrition and self-reliance.
ted.com+1
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
JPTokyo, Japan
A membership rental garden opened in 2009 on the rooftop of the Atre Ebisu station building directly connected to JR Ebisu Station. A rooftop-greening company converted an underused downtown rooftop into a come-empty-handed kitchen garden for citizens, pioneering rooftop-garden rollouts across Japan.
shibukei.com+1
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.
city.suginami.tokyo.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
JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
A flagship of UR's 'Future of Danchi' project at Yokodai Chuo Danchi in Isogo Ward, Yokohama. Directed by architect Kengo Kuma and creative director Kashiwa Sato, it renewed facades, plazas, small parks and the meeting hall, regenerating outdoor space and daily life through resident workshops (the Kamome Project), a community cafe and planting and markets.
ur-net.go.jp+2
JPSakai, Osaka, Japan
At the public-corporation rental complex Chayamadai Danchi in Senboku New Town, Sakai, Osaka, the Osaka Prefectural Housing Supply Corporation runs the 'Hibikiau Danchi Life' regeneration project. In an aging complex with rising vacancies, it revives residents' lives and community through a DIY workshop, library, deli, mobile vegetable sales and lemon cultivation in vacant spaces.
danchi-renovation.com+2
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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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
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
JPOsaka, Japan
A flagship case of turning a vacant lot in Suminoe, Osaka into a community farm as interim pre-development use (opened 2012), linking a landowner's idle property to creative placemaking.
greenz.jp+4
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
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
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
CNChengdu, China
A resident-led, environment-friendly rooftop vegetable garden launched in 2014 by the Xingrong Community Committee in Chengdu. It practises an organic cycle using rainwater irrigation and kitchen-waste compost, with 23 households growing vegetables together.
c40.org+1
JOAmman, Jordan
A rooftop-garden project aiming to create a green oasis in dense, concrete refugee camps and reconnect refugees with their agricultural heritage. It offers a low-tech response to food insecurity and fosters community self-reliance, expanding from a prototype on the Jadal rooftop in Amman to implementation in Jerash refugee camp.
jordantimes.com+3
PSDheisheh / Bethlehem, Palestine
With little access to farmland and about 40% of West Bank refugees food-insecure, this program uses shelter rooftops so families can grow vegetables. It began with roughly 11 families in Dheisheh camp and is envisioned to expand to other West Bank camps to reduce aid dependence and build self-reliance.
unrwa.org+1
LBTripoli / Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon
An ANERA project spreading low-cost rooftop gardening with recycled containers among residents of a Palestinian refugee camp destroyed and rebuilt after the 2007 fighting. Residents such as 62-year-old Om Maher grow vegetables, herbs and fruit trees on their roofs, supporting food security and the rebuilding of their lives.
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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.
m24.ru+1
RUYekaterinburg, Russia
Yekaterinburg's first community garden, opened in 2021 in Mayakovsky Central Park by converting an old greenhouse once used to grow the park's flowers. Residents rent beds free of charge and grow plants year-round.
e1.ru+1
CAHalifax, Canada
A community garden and productive green space that began in 2012 as interim use of downtown Halifax hospital land. With around 240 plots, it is a place where residents grow food and connect.
commonrootsurbanfarm.ca+1
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.
spenceneighbourhood.org+1
ZAJohannesburg, South Africa
A rooftop farm started in 2019 in Braamfontein, central Johannesburg. It turned an unused rooftop into a green oasis and has established more than 15 food gardens across the inner city.
witsvuvuzela.com+1
INBengaluru, India
A Bengaluru organic terrace-gardening movement begun in 2011 that runs recurring events to spread rooftop food growing among urban dwellers. It brings seeds, saplings, compost, tools and know-how together in one place with demonstrations and consultations.
gardencityfarmers.org+2
INChennai, India
A Chennai rooftop-gardening initiative launched in 2014 whose founder grows 500+ plants on her own roof and has helped 1,500+ people start their own rooftop gardens. It teaches citizens organic growing through consultations, workshops and internships.
thebetterindia.com+2
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.
edibleroutes.com+1
IDJakarta, Indonesia
Originated as 'Jakarta Berkebun' from an October 2010 Twitter call by architect Ridwan Kamil and collaborators. The first planting on 20 February 2011 drew about 150 people, and the movement spread to 14 cities within six months, becoming a national urban-farming community network.
id.wikipedia.org+1
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.
barat.jakarta.go.id+1
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
The second Kitakagaya Minna no Uen site (2013), turning a former bathhouse and cultural housing of about 500 sqm into a larger community farm with ~33 plots and a kitchen studio.
minnanouen.jp+3
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.
minnanouen.jp+1
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.
minnanouen.jp+1
JPKobe, Japan
A community garden that revived a vacant lot along the passageway of Kobe's roughly century-old Nada Central Market using handmade planters and lighting, turning land left derelict for over 20 years into organic rental plots and a lively market space.
ichiba-kobe.gr.jp+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
JPKadoma, Japan
One of Kansai's largest rooftop farms, opened in 2011 on the roof of the Bears commercial building in Kadoma, Osaka. With about 900 square meters and 100 plots themed on food education, it turned an urban rooftop into a place for community farming and exchange.
aozoranouen.com+1
JPOsaka, Japan
An empty-handed rooftop rental garden offered on near-station rooftops in central Osaka. Run by Toho Leo, it provides a place where even beginners can casually enjoy growing vegetables and building community in the city.
machinaka-saien.jp+4
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.
cityfarm.gangdong.go.kr+1
KRSeoul, South Korea
A city-wide network of resident-participatory box and community gardens on rooftops, leftover urban gaps and schools, expanded under Seoul's urban-agriculture policy launched in earnest in 2012. Supported by city and district subsidies, the number of gardens grew from about 100 to more than 1,600.
koreatimes.co.kr+1
KRDaegu, South Korea
Daegu's urban-agriculture support program centred on school gardens. The city subsidises school gardens at 45 schools plus box, rooftop and balcony gardens and senior healing gardens, advancing food education and cross-generational citizen participation.
cityfarm.daegu.go.kr+1
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.
quezoncity.gov.ph+2
JPNaha, Okinawa, Japan
A downtown rooftop rental garden launched in 2023 on the 10th floor of Naha's Palette Kumoji complex, said to be the prefecture's first. Run by Kumoji Urban Development with MyFarm, residents rent plots monthly and garden in the city with free tools and recycled-material soil.
otv.co.jp+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
FRGennevilliers, France
The flagship example of the R-Urban strategy, turning vacant suburban land near Paris into citizen-run agro-cultural hubs. AgroCité, combining urban agriculture, recycling and low-energy building, was born in Colombes, dismantled in 2017 to make way for a car park, and rebuilt in Gennevilliers after a residents' campaign. It is internationally known as a model of the urban commons.
urbantactics.org+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
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
FIHelsinki, Finland
A symbolic hub of Finnish urban agriculture, regenerating a historic railway turntable in Pasila, central Helsinki. It turned a leftover piece of rail infrastructure into a greenhouse, garden and event space—a laboratory for sustainable food production, peer learning and urban culture.
kaantopoyta.fi+2
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
HUBudapest, Hungary
A pioneering example of interim use of vacant infill plots in central Budapest. Despite having to relocate four times as development advanced, the garden has kept going and now refreshes the 8th district from its current site on Magdolna Street. It is emblematic of Hungary's urban community-garden movement.
kozossegikertek.hu+2
MXMexico City, Mexico
A citizen-run urban garden in Mexico City's Roma district that turned an earthquake-scarred vacant lot into a laboratory for permaculture and the solidarity economy. Styling itself a 'biosocial lab', it works as a community centre spanning farming, environment, culture and health.
huertoromaverde.org+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
NGAbuja, Nigeria
A pioneering venture in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, growing vegetables inside the city with vertical hydroponic farms built from shipping containers. Achieving high yields with little land and water, it has been showcased at home and abroad as a model for drawing urban youth into agriculture.
thenationonlineng.net+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
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
NGLagos, Nigeria
Community-driven vertical garden intervention initiated in 2014 in Agege. Bottom-up approach to low-cost innovation with community members contributing expertise and decision-making.
una.city
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
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
MXMexico City, Mexico
Mexico City municipal government has issued grants to over 3,000 residents since 2007 to promote rooftop agriculture. Community projects like Miravalle provide environmental education and agriculture workshops.
foodtank.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
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
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
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
INDelhi, India
Rooftop farming expansion across Delhi utilizing underused roofs for vegetable cultivation by residents. Promoted through Delhi's Draft Citizen's Policy for Urban Agriculture (2022), emphasizing residential and community farming via rooftop and kitchen gardens, vacant land allocation, and public awareness.
resilience.org+1
EGCairo, Egypt
Founded in 2011, it converts unused rooftops in Cairo's informal neighborhoods into pesticide-free productive space, lifting incomes while greening the city
egyptindependent.com+1
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
KENairobi, Kenya
Sack gardening that spread in Nairobi's Kibera slum after the 2008 post-election violence, providing food security and livelihoods where there is no land
fao.org+4
KENairobi (Kawangware), ケニア
A 57-year-old landless farmer in Kawangware uses rooftop vegetables to support and educate four grandchildren. Exemplifies rapid adoption of sack gardening and rooftop farming in Nairobi's slums (Kibera, Mathare). Vertical cultivation using sacks filled with soil and organic waste; grows leafy vegetables like spinach and amaranth on rooftops, balconies, and fences.
thekenyatimes.com+1
KENairobi, ケニア
8,000 sq ft rooftop farm producing lettuce, bok choy, and herbs for supply to food chains and restaurants in Nairobi. Example of commercial rooftop farming in urban context.
thekenyatimes.com
NGLagos (Surulere), ナイジェリア
27-year-old graduate in Lagos (Surulere) built hydroponic rooftop farm using recycled plastic bottles, pipes, and small solar pump. Response to food inflation and supply disruptions in Nigeria. Grows lettuce, spinach, and basil.
guardian.ng
MACasablanca, Morocco
Rooftop hydroponic gardens by Casablanca apartment residents using water-efficient systems to reduce grocery costs and improve dietary diversity.
cleangreenmorocco.com
UGKampala, Uganda
Vertical farming system developed by women entrepreneurs in Uganda. Built from wood and recycled plastic, each unit grows 200 plants with 360-degree sun rotation and drip irrigation for efficient urban food production and waste reduction.
agritecture.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
GRThessaloniki, Greece
PER.KA (peri-urban cultivators), a self-managed urban farming collective born in 2011 in Thessaloniki against the backdrop of Greece's economic crisis. Citizens occupied an abandoned ex-military camp and cultivate organically across 7 gardens and over 130 plots, a leading Greek case of urban commons.
journals.sagepub.com+1
FRLyon, France
The Lyon chapter of the international Incredible Edible movement (begun 2008 in Todmorden, UK), active since 2011. Volunteers plant vegetables and herbs in shared street planters that anyone can harvest, turning public space into a free 'self-service' vegetable garden. Planters are placed using permaculture principles based on sunlight and water access.
lyon.lesincroyablescomestibles.fr+1
HUBudapest, Hungary
A flagship model garden of Budapest's community-garden movement led by the Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK). An empty building site in District 8 was divided into 95 plots tended together by citizens of all ages. Closed in 2018 when construction began, it helped spread Hungary's community-gardening movement.
una.city+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+2
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
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A 1.3-acre city farm in Tower Hamlets, east London, close to Brick Lane. It started in 1978 as an allotment site on the wasteland left by a former railway goods depot, later added animals to become a city farm, and achieved charity status in 1980.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A city farm of about 4.2 acres in Stepney, east London, founded in 1979 by Lynne Bennett as 'Stepping Stones' on the wasteland left after the Stepney Congregational Church was destroyed by bombing in 1941. It combines livestock, a community garden, a farmers' market and traditional craft workshops.
en.wikipedia.org
LBAkkar / Tripoli / Bekaa, Lebanon
An FAO project run from 15 September 2015 to 15 June 2016 under the constraint that the Lebanese government does not permit Syrian refugees to cultivate land. It deployed micro-gardens on the walls of dwellings for landless vulnerable households, with the stated objective of promoting diversified, quality food. The 170 direct beneficiaries across Akkar, Tripoli and the Bekaa comprised 76 vulnerable Lebanese and 94 displaced Syrians.
reliefweb.int+1
GBLeeds, United Kingdom
A 24-acre urban farm in Meanwood, Leeds, established in 1980. It demonstrates organic farming and sustainability, keeping Dexter cattle, Whitefaced Woodland and Ryeland sheep, alpacas, goats, several breeds of pig, chickens and ducks, and producing honey. It also runs a Recycled Bike Project teaching mechanical skills to young people.
en.wikipedia.org
JPNagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan
A civic project by Nagasaki Urban Landscape Institute / null turning vacant lots on Nagasaki’s sloping streets into allotment gardens. Since Base opened in 2020 it has grown to five sites by 2025, including Japan’s Kyushu first civic entrustment of idle national land (The View). It eases owners’ vacant-lot upkeep while drawing younger residents, schools and welfare partners into the hillside neighbourhood.
nagasaki-null.design+6
JPIchihara, Chiba, Japan
Membership community farms by Idemitsu and Plantio in Ichihara, Chiba—idle company land (2022) then a city park satellite (2023). Cited in planning reports as non-agri private-sector entry into urban gardens, drawing parenting households for food education and connection.
idemitsu.com+3
JPKunitachi, Tokyo, Japan
An NPO community garden in Yaho, Kunitachi, offering both private and shared plots. Layers farm living with childcare and neighbourhood belonging, linked to the group’s wider farm-experience sites.
k-nouennokai.org+4
JPShimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
ARCH turns national land on Shimonoseki’s sloping dense streets into a share farm—cutting state upkeep on hard-to-sell plots while creating food-education and exchange near the station. A regional spread of Sakanoen-style national-land interim gardening.
arch-shimonoseki.com+3
JPKobe (灘区), Japan
A circular smart rental farm near Oishi Station in Nada, pairing app support and ready gear so urban residents can grow vegetables easily.
city.kobe.lg.jp+2
JPKobe (灘区), Japan
A smart rental farm on the HAT Kobe Nadanohama multi-storey car-park roof, turning municipal housing infrastructure into urban growing space.
city.kobe.lg.jp+2
JPKobe (中央区), Japan
A smart rental farm at the north edge of Okurayama Park in Chuo Ward, offering empty-handed vegetable growing beside the cultural hall.
city.kobe.lg.jp+1
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
JPShinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Opened April 2026 on a former condo lot in Togoshi, Shinagawa. About 330㎡ split into farm and plaza uses Plantio grow’s shared cultivation and IoT support as a neighbourhood courtyard. Membership filled quickly; the project is building shop-street ties and a local gathering place.
greenpark.grow-agritainment.com+3
JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Opened September 2025 on the roof of Landport Yokohama Sugita. Japan’s first grow smart community farm on a multi-tenant logistics building, expanding from worker co-growing toward neighbourhood exchange and resilience.
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JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Since 2018 in Hommoku, Yokohama: a renovated farmhouse with a garden as a neighbourhood place. A 2025 civic grant improved access and visibility. Garden, kitchen and clubs now host multi-generational community gardening.
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JPJoto, Osaka, Japan
Citizen allotments opened in 2019 in Osaka’s Gamoyon (Gamo 4-chome) on lots cleared after typhoon-damaged vacant houses. Run by the Gamoyon revitalisation project, all 29 plots stay full as an everyday farming and neighbour hub.
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JPAbeno, Osaka, Japan
Allotments on the roof of Abeno Harukas Kintetsu flagship. MyFarm has run it since April 2023—an emblematic high-rise rooftop for grow-your-own and urban community.
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JPHigashisumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan
A cultivation-experience farm inside Nagai Park—not allotments but family programs on Naniwa heirlooms and food culture, layering education and community in a city park.
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JPNaniwa, Osaka, Japan
Kansai’s first Share Batake Garden, opened 2023 on Namba OCAT’s roof—about 700㎡ and 130 container plots bringing grow-your-own into Minami’s transit hub.
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JPSumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan
In Uesumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi Ward: a nagaya paired with a vacant-lot farm. Started 2023 as Minna-no-Uen Uesumiyoshi; since April 2025 it continues as owner-run Uesumiyoshi Farm.
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GBSheffield, United Kingdom
A city farm in the Heeley district of Sheffield, founded in 1981 on land earmarked for the Sheffield South Relief road — the Heeley bypass — a scheme that blighted the lives of hundreds of local residents for 30 years and was never begun. Built around a wind- and sun-powered mini-farm, it also runs recycling, a garden centre, a café and a charity shop, combining environmental, health, food and farming education with training for disabled people, unemployed adults and young people. From 31 October 2008 it began reconstructing an Iron Age roundhouse with the University of Sheffield's Archaeology Department, targeted for completion in early 2011.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LVRiga, Latvia
A citizens' initiative that in 2020 turned a privately owned vacant lot — left derelict after the demolition of a Soviet-era sports palace/ice arena — into a garden held under temporary use. It opened to the public in spring 2021 and combines 150 planting-box plots with wildflower meadow and picnic/rest zones. It doubles as a venue for cultural and educational events and draws over 4,000 visitors a summer.
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UAKyiv (Podil), Ukraine
A community garden that opened in spring 2025 in Kyiv's historic Podil district — the first of its kind in the city centre — in the middle of wartime. Residents and volunteers cleared a plot that had sat walled off since a building was demolished there in 1985, and turned it into a garden with raised beds, rainwater collection, compost bins and a tool shed. It was formally opened in May 2025.
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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.
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KZAstana, Kazakhstan
A school-garden movement in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana. The Slow Food Community of Astana Urban Producers, led by agronomist Aida Serik, has created 20 school gardens, while in parallel the Bulat Utemuratov Foundation's 'Green School' project has built greenhouses at 19 public schools and one college. Both were reported in January 2025 as work of roughly the previous three years; no exact start year is stated.
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BGSofia, Bulgaria
A pioneering citizens' gardening project in Bulgaria, started in 2012 by a handful of enthusiasts, with its first communal garden in the Nadezhda district. The garden it opened in 2015, Градина заДружба, is now the longest-running community garden in Sofia. Today the initiative carries the city's largest network of community gardens — some 6,000 m² in total, with around 100 gardeners.
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LTVilnius (Pilaitė), Lithuania
A residents' garden next to the Beepart creative workshop on Vydūno Street in the Pilaitė district of western Vilnius. Started by the architect Laura Petruškevičiūtė, it has grown from six beds to 33. The number of urban gardens in Vilnius is rising quickly, and gardening is increasingly treated as one of the city's urban-development tools.
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INMumbai, India
A pilot in which Mumbai's municipal corporation (BMC), working with the citizens' group Swachh Parle Abhiyan, turns roughly 2,230 m² of dead space under a flyover near the airport into plots for residents. Announced on 22 February 2026, it is notable for putting the long, awkward strips of land under elevated roads — abundant in cities and usually unused — to work as citizen allotments.
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SKBratislava (Rača, Krasňany), Slovakia
Opened on 22 May 2013, this was the first citizen-run community garden in Bratislava. What set it apart is where it is: not in the old town but inside Krasňany, a socialist-era housing estate, on an unused strip behind the local health centre. It showed that people living in prefab flats could have a plot of their own, and became the starting point for the many community gardens that have since spread across Bratislava's districts.
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SKBratislava, Slovakia
Mobile community gardens on Bratislava's idle plots, started in 2013 by residents inspired by a community garden in Amsterdam. The first garden on Sasinkova Street ran 2013–2015 on a private plot leased for three years; in spring 2015 the group opened a garden on Pionierska Street on an abandoned vineyard in cooperation with the city (90 wooden boxes, 100–110 participants), and in spring 2016 a garden in a school courtyard on Karpatská Street (50 boxes, ten of them for the school).
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ISReykjavík (Seljahverfi, Jaðarsel), Iceland
A resident-run urban farm at Jaðarsel in the Seljahverfi district of Reykjavík. It was founded in 2014 by volunteers and residents of Seljahverfi and Breiðholt on the site of a school-garden project the city had discontinued. It describes itself as the only place in the city where you can rent both an outdoor plot (20 m² and larger) and a place inside a greenhouse. Organised around organic, sustainable growing and health, its purpose is community as much as cultivation: regular events, teaching days and an end-of-summer produce market.
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CMYaoundé (Biyem-Assi), Cameroon
An urban agriculture programme (2013–2014) in the working-class district of Biyem-Assi in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé, aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity among residents. Because arable land is scarce and soil contamination common in the city, Alternatives brought in the soil-free (hors-sol) growing techniques it had developed on Montreal rooftops and spread them among neighbourhood women's groups, market vendors, and school pupils and their families. The work combined building vegetable gardens and a school garden with income-generating activity, a training programme and educational materials.
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CYNicosia, Cyprus
In central Nicosia, a citizens' group turned a derelict plot into a sustainable shared garden. It started from winning the Climathon Nicosia competition in October 2019, and hundreds of volunteers helped build it. Beyond growing, it sets out to build community, practise a circular economy that treats waste as material, and create a dynamic urban food-sharing ecosystem. It runs learning programmes for local youth on open-source technology and sustainability, and supports women refugees in agricultural entrepreneurship. The project was shortlisted for the EU's New European Bauhaus Awards in the 'Regaining a sense of belonging' category.
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PAPanama City, Panama
A school- and community-garden programme run by the Municipality of Panama through the Resilience and Climate Change unit of its Directorate of Environmental Management, announced by the city in September 2024. It teaches children and residents small-scale agriculture and works to fold growing fruit, vegetables and herbs into daily routines. Its stated aims are food security, healthy and sustainable eating habits, and community cooperation.
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DOSanto Domingo (Distrito Nacional), Dominican Republic
In the Dominican capital, the National District city hall (ADN) and the ministries of Agriculture, Environment and Women signed an agreement in March 2021 to create 30 urban gardens — ten in each of the district's three electoral divisions. Neighbourhood associations and individuals, especially women, single mothers and young people, are the intended growers, using both vertical and horizontal methods to raise vegetables, medicinal and aromatic herbs and ornamental plants. Stated aims are to increase availability of and access to healthy food, create outlets in municipal markets and plant-exchange points, foster a culture of peace and healthy coexistence in neighbourhoods, and generate jobs and income. It forms part of the Urban Gardens Programme run by the Agriculture Ministry's Women's Agricultural Sector Office (OSAM).
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ALTirana, Albania
An urban-farming school in central Tirana, taught in a greenhouse built on the rooftop terrace of the Tulla Culture Centre. It began in 2022 with funding from GIZ Albania and holds growing classes every Thursday evening, raising roughly 300 plants a season — tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach — chosen to suit the local climate. Tirana once had a culture of families keeping small allotments, but it faded as green space was taken over by construction. The school gives equal weight to recovering those lost skills and to building connections between people.
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FJSuva and other urban areas, Fiji
A national home-gardening programme launched by Fiji's Ministry of Agriculture in March 2020 as part of its COVID-19 response. With lockdowns in Suva and Lautoka making food harder to obtain, the ministry distributed seed packs of short-cycle crops to households in urban and peri-urban areas, starting on 30 March 2020. A scheme buying seed from local farmers and redistributing it to city residents was also set up, so that emergency support fed into something households could keep growing rather than ending as one-off food relief. A booklet with the National Food and Nutrition Centre, 'Grow your own Food', covers both cultivation and nutrition.
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GBKeighley, United Kingdom
A yard behind the Salvation Army church hall and community centre in Keighley, West Yorkshire, turned into a productive garden over about a year by a volunteer, Matthew. Potatoes grow in an old baby bath and chillies in a wellington boot; carrots, peas, strawberries, herbs and pumpkins fill the rest. The produce supplies the Salvation Army food bank, meals for homeless people, the Victory Programme budgeting-and-cookery class and the centre's café. Matthew came to the charity after rehab, joined the cookery class, and was asked to take on the garden while volunteering at the food bank, with no prior gardening experience.
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PYPilar, Paraguay
A garden network started in 2003 across four barrios of Pilar, a provincial city in southern Paraguay. Aimed at food and nutrition security, it spread by having residents themselves build fences and beds, record how they grew things, and pass the methods to neighbouring families. Distinctively, it paired well-building with educational stipends and scholarships so the gardens also became a route into further study. The project closed in 2022.
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PAPanama City (Don Bosco / Los Robles), Panama
A community garden opened in 2020 by the local council of Panama City's Don Bosco district. A demonstration nursery beside the Los Robles community house teaches neighbours to grow food and to start their own home gardens. It began under the 'Don Bosco Verde' environmental programme, aimed at food security during the pandemic and at responsible consumption.
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PKKarachi, Pakistan
A citizen network in Karachi promoting organic urban growing in pots, on rooftops and in leftover spaces. Its core is the "learning garden": in schools it anchors a curriculum, and in homes it closes the loop by composting household organic waste back into the beds. In a city where vegetation covers only about 7% of the land area, it aims to grow both food and green space through residents' own hands.
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MACasablanca, Morocco
A citizen-run garden on the roof of the L'Uzine cultural centre in Casablanca's Aïn Sebaâ district. In a city with less than one square metre of green space per resident, it shows how an unused rooftop can be turned into a place for growing food and meeting neighbours.
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QADoha, Qatar
A community garden run at the Micro-Farm inside Education City, Doha, where residents can register for a bed and grow their own food. The name Hadiqaa (حديقة) is Arabic for "garden". To make growing possible in a Gulf climate that nears 50°C in summer, it runs a year-round programme of workshops on soil, sowing, composting and winter vegetables, treating growing skills themselves as a shared asset.
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BBNationwide (3 secondary schools), Barbados
Launched on 28 March 2025 at Grantley Adams Memorial School, this Barbadian school-garden project has students at three secondary schools grow their own food in low-cost self-watering wick beds made from five-gallon buckets, framed as a single lesson on food insecurity, nutrition and climate change.
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OMMuscat (nationwide), Oman
A citizen network of backyard growers begun in 2014 by ten enthusiasts in Muscat. Built on just two mechanisms — free seed distribution and peer support over WhatsApp — it spread across Oman and within a decade drew more than 4,500 families, bringing part of a heavily import-dependent food supply back into home yards.
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VUPort Vila, Vanuatu
Thirteen gardens built across Port Vila for residents compulsorily evacuated from Ambae Island after the second eruption of the Manaro Voui volcano in mid-2018. Fabric planting containers speed growth so the produce can supplement food during their stay in temporary shelters — a case of restoring a place to grow, in the city, to people who left behind the customary land that fed them.
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ISReykjavík, Iceland
A municipal scheme under which the City of Reykjavík rents out about 600 plots to residents on annual terms. Sites lie at seven locations inside the city — Vesturbær, Fossvogur, Laugardalur, Árbær, Grafarvogur, Kjalarnes and Meðalholt — plus Skammadalur in neighbouring Mosfellsbær. With a short, cool summer, growers concentrate on potatoes, cabbages and turnips.
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TONuku'alofa (Patangata), Tonga
A household-garden rebuilding effort begun by the Salvation Army after the January 2022 tsunami washed away the gardens and topsoil of Patangata, described as one of the lowest-income communities on Tongatapu. Residents fence their own ground and restart vegetable growing in the topsoil that is delivered to them.
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GYGeorgetown, Guyana
A wall-mounted kitchen garden built from discarded plastic bottles, taken into schools by the Green Economy Committee of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry. On 28 November 2020 the team worked with pupils at the David Rose School for the Differently Abled, planting thyme, celery, lettuce and calaloo, and said it would extend the project to fourth-form classes at other schools the following year.
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DZZeralda / Douaouda (peri-urban Algiers), Algeria
The shared-garden work of Torba, a citizens' association operating around Algiers. Starting from the permaculture courses it began in 2014, it built a model of renting small parcels of 20–100 m² from municipalities and distributing them to people who want to grow. Gardens run at Zeralda, Douaouda and Blida, with Tiaret and Oran planned.
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