Hands-on experience

Not just watching — getting your hands in the soil

Touching soil, tending and harvesting delivers learning and satisfaction that knowledge alone cannot. Experience events and harvest festivals work both as an entry point for participation and as a pillar of operations.

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Cases where this shows up

Rooftop

2010

Umeda Honeybee Project

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.

PollinatorsBiodiversityCommunity+1

u-mitsubachi.com+1

Rooftop

pick! nic! farm, rooftop of Suma Patio shopping centre, Kobe

JPKobe (須磨区), Japan

A multi-generational community garden on the rooftop of the Suma Patio shopping centre in Suma Ward, Kobe. Rather than simply growing vegetables, it treats "eating" as a year-round, whole-cycle experience, with regular hands-on workshops. Weeds and plant residues from the rooftop beds and workshops are composted and returned to the garden's planters and to nearby fields, closing a small local resource loop.

CommunityFood educationCompost+1

compost.smartkobe-portal.com+1

Community garden

2020

Mitsui no Sumai LOOP x JA Setagaya-Meguro Experience Farm

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.

Food educationCommunityElderly

mitsuifudosan.co.jp+2

Community garden

2014

Busan Citizens Park Urban Farming Experience

KRBusan, South Korea

Citizen-participatory urban-farming experiences within Busan Citizens Park, opened in 2014 on land returned from the former U.S. military base Camp Hialeah. An agriculture-themed forest and experience gardens host activities such as rice planting and harvesting.

CommunityFood educationOrganic cycle

rda.go.kr+1

Community garden

Konan Agream Fureai Citizen Garden

JPTakamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

A citizen garden inside the 5-hectare 'Konan Agream' farming-exchange facility near Takamatsu Airport, where residents rent about 50 m2 for roughly 10,000 yen a year. Through harvest and cooking experiences it lets people touch rural life and acts as a food-education and community hub.

CommunityFood education

agream.net+1

Community garden

1997

Kagoshima City Urban Agriculture Center Citizens' Farm Zone

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.

CommunityFood educationElderly

city.kagoshima.lg.jp+1

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