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Goals of Urban Gardening

17.11.2015

What is nowadays understood by ‘urban gardening’ and what are the goals?
Urban gardening does not know any fences or isolation like the garden plot movement. It is the generic term for collaborative gardening in the city. Behind it a multiplicity of different initiatives and projects with a common or similar goal is hidden: agricultural utilization of mostly small and prevalent public areas by the citizens. The main focus is on sustainability and environmentally friendly production, but also a conscious contact with nature and agricultural products takes its part.

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Another fundamental aspect of the community gardens is – like the name says – the community. It is to meet like-minded people irrespective of age, income, family situation or nationality. The members want to exchange information not only about gardening questions but also to build neighborhood relations and improve them and also bring children in contact with nature. Eventually also the recreation and exercise outdoors with fresh air should not come short.

Not only for a few initiators the rethinking, concerning the allocation of resources, profit orientation, consumer behavior, energy dissipation and so on, play a big role as well. Supporters of urban gardening are of the opinion that the agribusinesses, which only aim on the realization of profits, extremely exploit the soil and are not environmentally friendly. Through urban gardening they try to counteract these negative developments – even if these are only small steps.

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