An urban garden is a shared garden of neighbour set up in your residential district, where you can not only grow organic vegetables, but also get to know people living nearby. Urban gardening is often introduced as a social innovation – a new model that allows meeting various social needs, helps solving social and economic problems, including reducing social exclusion, loneliness, promoting the sense of community, providing new skills and knowledge, increasing self-esteem, etc. How can weeding a garden help weed out not only weeds that grow in soil, but also social weeds? Where do I start if I want to have such a garden under my windows? How do I find like-minded people?
You will find all the answers in this guide.
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