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SGSingapore, Singapore
Singapore's first commercial rooftop farm, established in 2011 atop an Orchard Road mall, growing vegetables and herbs while doubling as a community farm on weekends.
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USSeattle, United States
A hyperlocal cycle in Seattle's Chinatown-International District that turns neighboring restaurants' food scraps into compost for the Danny Woo Community Garden—the area's only green space—supporting elderly immigrant gardeners growing culturally significant foods.
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JPHino, Japan
A community garden in Hino City, Tokyo, started by citizens who believe 'kitchen waste is a treasure.' It collects and composts the kitchen waste of around 200 households and grows vegetables and flowers pesticide-free as a food-cycle garden. Naomi Shimpo studied its management and governance in detail in her 2021 and 2024 papers.
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JPNerima, Tokyo, Japan
Nerima created Japan's first agricultural experience farm in 1996 and is a pioneer of urban agriculture. The 'Nerima model', in which farmers act as instructors for residents, has spread nationwide, with over a dozen farms still operating in the ward. It is a leading model for using urban farmland as a place of learning and community exchange.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya provides a range of official ways for residents to engage with urban farming: Family Allotments (~10 sqm fully equipped plots), harvest and planting experiences at Fureai farms, a JA farmers market for 'Setagaya-sodachi' produce, and a map of about 110 farm stands.
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JPNagoya, Japan
The Nagoya Agricultural Center (nicknamed 'dela Farm'), an agricultural park opened in 1965 and fully renovated in 2024, serves as a hub where residents deepen their understanding of farming through hands-on growing at its Citizen Garden and other municipal farms across the city.
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JPFukuoka, Japan
Fukuoka develops municipal 'refresh' farms and instructor-led experience farms to support residents' farming activity for soil contact, health, food education and social interaction, while officially running new-farmer programmes like Agri-Challenge — an urban-agriculture policy of a major Kyushu city.
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JPKokubunji, Tokyo, Japan
Kokubunji launched farm-support volunteering in 1996 and certifies residents who learn cultivation year-round at its Citizen Agriculture College, introducing them to local farmers. About 80 volunteers are now active, and the city also supports six experience farms — a workforce-building urban-agriculture policy.
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JPKawasaki, Japan
Kawasaki maintains an Urban Agriculture Promotion Center and develops varied farm-contact venues — citizen farms, instructor-led experience farms, community-exchange farms and pick-your-own farms. Through programmes like Asao green tourism it uses surviving urban farmland as a place of exchange and learning.
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JPSuginami, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo's first municipally run agriculture-welfare farm, opened April 2021 in Igusa, Suginami, on a barrier-free 3,200 m2 site giving people with disabilities and seniors a place to engage in farming.
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JPKashiwa, Chiba, Japan
The 'Kashiwa Project', launched in 2009 by Kashiwa City, the University of Tokyo's Institute of Gerontology and UR at Toyoshikidai Danchi (over 40% elderly) in Chiba. Using rooftop farms, plant-cultivation units and nearby farmland in the rebuilt complex, it embeds agriculture as 'ikigai' employment for seniors, advancing alongside community-based integrated care.
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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.
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JPMunakata, Fukuoka, Japan
The 'Satozukuri 48' community-cocreation project regenerated the former Block 48 of Hinosato Danchi (1971, once Kyushu's largest) in Munakata, Fukuoka, into the mixed hub 'Hinosato 48' with a nursery, DIY workshop and an on-site brewery in 2021; the on-site 'Hinosato Farm' lets multiple generations interact through farming and food.
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JPSetagaya, Tokyo, Japan
In 2020 Mitsui Fudosan Residential launched, via its Mitsui no Sumai LOOP membership service and with JA Setagaya-Meguro, an experience-farm and harvest-event program. On a roughly 6,000 sqm farm near Sakurajosui Station, members take part in actual farming from sowing to harvest; one winter-vegetable harvest event drew about 400 groups.
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JPRikuzentakata, Japan
Gardens opened near temporary housing in Rikuzentakata after the 2011 disaster, with a prefectural hospital borrowing idle land free (since 2012) — using interim disaster-area land for elderly health and interaction.
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CNShanghai, China
Baicaoyuan ('herbal garden') is a roughly 200 m² resident-run garden in the central square of a Yangpu neighbourhood. Supported by Clover Nature School, it is a representative resident-managed community garden.
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CNShanghai, China
Completed November 2019, a ~450 m² community 'habitat garden' reclaimed from a rubble dump, with native plants, a pond and vegetable beds that provide habitat for urban wildlife while connecting residents to nature. It is the first of Shanghai's habitat-garden network (24 gardens by 2023).
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CNChongqing, China
Built in 2018 on a developer's residential complex in central Chongqing, this is one of the city's first rooftop community gardens designed for seniors. With accessible garden beds, it is a welfare and community space where elderly residents can take part in gardening.
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CAMontreal, Canada
A Montreal non-profit founded in 1995 to connect youth and seniors, linking a rooftop garden, composting and bicycle-based meal delivery. It is described as the only Meals-on-Wheels service in Canada that grows its own food.
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CAMontreal, Canada
Montreal's municipal community garden programme, launched in 1975 and the largest in Canada, rated among the best in North America. About 10,000 gardeners grow food and flowers on 6,700 plots across 73 gardens.
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ZASoweto, South Africa
A food garden started around 2021 by youth in Orlando West, Soweto. They transformed a dumping site into a plot growing cabbage and spinach to support the area's elderly residents.
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SNDakar, Senegal
An urban micro-gardening programme begun in 1999 by FAO and the City of Dakar. It fights food insecurity through soil-less cultivation in small spaces and from 2004 was extended to other cities in Senegal and Africa.
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UGKampala, Uganda
An urban farming programme run by Kampala Capital City Authority, anchored by the roughly 30-acre Kyanja Agricultural Resource Centre in Kawempe division, supporting food security and incomes for vulnerable residents.
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LSMaseru, Lesotho
A household compost-integrated raised-bed garden developed in drought- and erosion-prone Lesotho by the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE), based on a design CARE used in Zimbabwe, and spread widely across southern Africa.
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TWNew Taipei, Taiwan
New Taipei's citizen farms give urban dwellers a place to experience farming. Set up by subsidising farmers' associations in five districts-Yingge, Shulin, Xindian, Tucheng and Tamsui-they have been well received.
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TWKaohsiung, Taiwan
Responding to an ageing society, the city's Social Affairs Bureau established this senior citizen farm in the Xincaoya settlement. Elders grow vegetables organically, reconnecting with nature to maintain body and mind and deepen social interaction-a welfare-oriented urban farm.
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KRSeoul, South Korea
Opened in October 2013 as Korea's first urban-agriculture park. Developed by Gangdong-gu as the centre of its eco-friendly urban-agriculture policy, it combines resident allotments, food education, hands-on experience and native-seed conservation as a healing and community space.
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KRIncheon, South Korea
Incheon's 'Eeum' (meaning 'connection') community urban farm, started in 2021 through participatory budgeting. Citizens and organisations grow crops together and run education and exchange activities, creating a public space for safe food and neighbourly ties.
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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.
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JPHachinohe, Aomori, Japan
Hachinohe Citizen Farm is a publicly run allotment opened inside the city's Agricultural Management Promotion Center to deepen residents' understanding of farming through family experiences. It offers about 240 plots of 33 square meters, allocated by annual lottery.
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JPHigashinaruse, Akita, Japan
Furin Co., a senior-care provider in Higashinaruse, Akita, has since 2013 run an agriculture-welfare program in which day-service users join planting and harvesting on nearby paddies. Users averaging 88 take meaningful roles in the work, and the harvested rice is sent to supporters.
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JPHiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
A network of more than 100 public citizen vegetable gardens across Hiroshima offering beginner-friendly plots plus cultivation classes and harvest festivals. The Mihari garden includes 'food-and-farming plots' where children's groups grow sweet potatoes, serving as a hands-on food-education setting.
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JPSanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
Sanyo-Onoda City's 'Fureai' citizen farm is a place where residents connect with nature and deepen their understanding of farming through growing vegetables and flowers. Its stated aims include purpose for older residents and experiential learning for children, enriching community life.
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JPOkinawa, Okinawa, Japan
A municipal citizens' farm in Okinawa City opened in 1994, offering about 1.9 ha and 102 plots to residents. Non-farmers grow vegetables and flowers there to deepen agricultural understanding, revitalise the community and nurture future growers.
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JPKumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
A Kumamoto City scheme designating qualifying citizen farms as 'Family Gardens,' places to enjoy soil and deepen appreciation of food and farming. Gardens are spread across the city's five wards, and residents without farmland can join on a rolling basis.
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JPKagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan
An about-30-ha urban agriculture centre opened by Kagoshima City in 1997, divided into training, citizens'-farm and interaction zones. Residents who rent plots in the citizens'-farm zone deepen agricultural understanding, health and exchange through workshops and fruit-harvest experiences.
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JPBeppu, Oita, Japan
A citizens' farm run by Beppu City where residents grow vegetables and flowers in the countryside overlooking Mt. Yufu. It recruits users as a place to deepen understanding of agriculture through farm work in nature and interaction with local residents not available downtown.
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JPMiyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
Tsukura Citizens' Farm, run by Miyazaki City, rents affordable plots of about 15 square metres to residents with on-site cultivation support. Beginners and families can enjoy growing vegetables and harvesting, tied to the city's food-education and local-production efforts.
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JPSaga, Saga, Japan
An initiative by Saga City introducing citizens' farms (fureai farms) opened by local farmers and individuals. At gardens such as Muraoka Honobono Farm and Tsunome Farm, residents grow vegetables to engage with nature and agriculture, deepening understanding and contact with nature.
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JPToyama, Toyama, Japan
A program Toyama City launched in 2013 to create community gardens in a corner of neighborhood parks and revitalize local community through vegetable harvesting. It now runs at seven sites, operated by resident park-care associations.
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JPGifu, Gifu, Japan
Gifu City's elderly health gardens, run across the city for older residents' wellbeing and purpose, plus JA Gifu's Health Fureai Farm. Residents aged 60+ enjoy growing vegetables on rented plots.
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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.
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PTLisbon, Portugal
Lisbon's first municipal horticultural park, opened by the city in the Benfica district in 2011, where residents lease plots through public competition to grow organically — the model for the city's wider network of municipal allotment parks.
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SGSingapore, Singapore
SECUF in Singapore: gardening hubs bringing communities together through edibles gardening and curated horticulture programs. The SECUF Grant encourages social enterprises to establish and operate Community Urban Farms, conducting programs for seniors, persons with disabilities, and low-income groups. Singapore has 1,500+ community gardens and 2,500+ allotment plots across 29 parks. Next allotment garden application window in Q4 2026.
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PELima, Peru
In an arid peripheral district of Lima, older women turned wasteland into a 1,400 m² agroecological garden. A resident-led response to food insecurity and the climate crisis, it puts urban agriculture at the heart of neighbourhood food and social life.
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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.
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CUHavana, Cuba
An organic urban farm in Havana started in 1997 by five cooperative members against the food crisis of the post-Soviet 'Special Period'. Around 150 members collectively manage about 11 ha, and it is regarded as one of Cuba's most successful examples of urban agriculture (organopónico).
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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.
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PEComas, Lima, Peru
A community organic garden in Comas, in the largely rainless megacity of Lima, run largely by elderly migrant women — a citizen-led urban farm fostering food security, climate adaptation and community ties.
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PTLisbon, Portugal
One of the first municipal horticultural parks opened by Lisbon in 2011, turning vacant lots and run-down parks into plots tended by residents — a leading Portuguese example of urban farming that links green infrastructure with social inclusion and food education.
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JPKobe (中央区), Japan
A citizen-participation community garden based in Ikutacho Park, near Shin-Kobe station, created as part of Kobe City's "Kobe Saien Project". Alongside vegetable growing it focuses on making sustainable living tangible — composting, resource cycling and soil building. The operators describe composting not as waste disposal but as "a small doorway into the cycle that connects people, neighbourhood and nature", aiming to start local cycling from curiosity and enjoyment rather than from environmental problems framed as difficult.
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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.
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JPToshima, Tokyo, Japan
Opened June 2026 by Toshima Ward and DAIKEN on a former school-pool site. In a dense ward without farms, unused land becomes a shared multi-generation garden for social connection, food education and easy growing—not plot rental.
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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.
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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.
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ESBarcelona, Spain
A squatted collective home and social centre with terraced vegetable gardens on the Collserola hillside beside Barcelona's Nou Barris district. The building is a 17th-century masia standing on a Roman site, later a nunnery and then a leper hospital, shuttered and abandoned in 1948. After roughly 53 years empty it was occupied by international activists in December 2001. In April 2002 police tried to remove eleven squatters; the residents locked themselves to precarious perches, seesaws and suspended frames outside the building for three days, and as public support grew a judge ordered the police to withdraw, ruling that human rights took precedence over property rights.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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JPOsaka, Japan
JA Osaka City’s Midori allotment network across the city. With no city-run allotments, it is core soil infrastructure for neighbourhoods including Tsurumi near Yokozutsumi.
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USSeattle, United States
A 1.5-acre community garden on a slope in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. Opened in 1975, it holds 101 garden allotments and 77 fruit trees. The gardeners are mostly low-income Asian seniors with an average age of 76. Alongside vegetables used in Asian cooking, the trees bear cherries, plums, Asian pears and apples. An on-site kitchen built in 2014 anchors the garden's community programmes.
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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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HRZagreb, Croatia
Launched by a mayoral decision of 4 April 2013, the scheme develops city-owned arable land and lends plots to residents free of charge for growing vegetables, berries, medicinal herbs and flowers for their own use. It started from three locations in spring 2013, reached 12 by 2017, and now covers 14 gardens, more than 2,152 plots and 23.03 hectares. Growing to ecological principles is required across all sites, with plot inspections and soil analyses.
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HRZagreb, Croatia
Zagreb's municipal allotment scheme, launched by a mayoral decision on 4 April 2013, divides city-owned land into plots where residents grow vegetables, berries, herbs and flowers for their own use. It has spread to 16 locations — including Stenjevec, Novi Zagreb (east and west), Peščenica-Žitnjak, Sesvete, Trnje, Maksimir and Podsused-Vrapče — with more than 2,252 plots. The city issues a gardening manual that encourages organic practice.
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JPTokyo, Japan
Blueberry Farm Tokyo, opened in 2023 in Higashi-Koiwa, Edogawa City, by Yano Takayuki, the 17th generation of a farming family whose land dates to the Edo period. He converted a komatsuna field left unworked after his grandfather's stroke. Around 1,000 potted bushes carry 35 established varieties plus four under trial — among the widest selections in Tokyo — drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Georgia and North Carolina among others. The June-to-August season was chosen deliberately to coincide with children's summer holidays; the farm is 35 minutes from Tokyo Station.
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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.
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SVSan Marcos, El Salvador
In the San Juan Bosco II neighbourhood of San Marcos, in the San Salvador metropolitan area, residents cleared a vacant lot that had become a dumping ground and turned it into a shared urban garden. The Cosechando Sonrisas programme supplies three months of training and inputs free of charge, and more than 50 households now grow vegetables on their own plots.
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MTGozo (Gozo General Hospital), Malta
An intergenerational community garden opened on 2 July 2025 in the grounds of Gozo General Hospital, run jointly by Gozo College Agius de Soldanis Middle School, GLOBE Malta, Nature Trust-FEE Malta and the hospital under the Ministry for Health and Active Ageing. Students and older residents work one plot together, growing fruit, vegetables and herbs alongside indigenous plants that draw bees and butterflies.
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BFOuagadougou (Tampouy), Burkina Faso
At a garden in Tampouy, north-west Ouagadougou, some thirty women aged 47 to 70 grow dry-season vegetables. The site began as a nursery under a tree-planting project of AMIFOB, an association of forestry workers; the women who raised the seedlings shifted to vegetables and have held the ground for decades. One 70-year-old has worked there for 36 years.
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