A plot of land cultivated collectively by a group of people: this is the definition that the American Community Garden Association has chosen to define the shared gardens.
is an initiative aimed at engaging citizens in the responsibility to create, treat and manage new green spaces. In this way you can retrieve small pieces of land out of use in urban areas, to provide an activity and not retired, create gathering places (especially for the summer and spring), and of course make cities greener.
In Italy the phenomenon is relatively recent and has appeared for the first time thirty years ago in the form of social gardens.
According to figures from the green wire, the promoter of the movement at the national level, initiatives to date are multiplying.
In Turin, for example, we cultivate a collective garden on the roof of the building via Goito 14, while the ground floor there is a workshop that provides information on organic farming.
Other similar initiatives are in place at Mirafiori.
While in Rome, last summer, held its first festival dedicated to the shared garden, where participants were asked to mark up a map of the city gardens and report on existing brownfield sites that could potentially accommodate new ones.
be active in Bologna is the project of communal gardens so-called "ethnic", in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture: San Donato in the area where there is a garden next to cabbage, lettuce and tomatoes, grow Moroccan tea, cardamom and coriander, with a group of farmers immigrants. (An example of integration that starts from the garden!)
Our hope is to see, over the years, our city paper, on rooftops, terraces, balconies, gardens and small brownfield sites, many small green areas accessible to anyone entrusted to the care and responsibility of citizens themselves.
Source: www.buonenotizie.it
