Guide to urban gardening

Photo: Aurora Tallon, DOT TO DOT project, Glasgow

Urban gardening Urban gardening is a very important activity in ensuring the vitality and sustainability of cities and the strengthening of social ties. Objectives of promotion of gardening activities in Vilnius: - strengthening local communities and building social ties; - use and regeneration of natural resources (land, water, energy) in application of good practices; - implementation of environmentally friendly, e.g. organic, biodynamic, permaculture and similar farming methods

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Guide to urban gardening

Published on Oct 14, 2020

Laura Petruske

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.   You can read this guide through, or open the section which interests you now. The guide has been created and written to be as practical as possible and to save time and effort in implementing your community’s ideas.

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Guide to urban gardening

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Ideas garden in Pilaite, Vilnius

Antakalnis garden, Vilnius

Activities

Concept

Communication

Šilainiai gardens, Kaunas

Ideas

Art of Hosting techniques

Sample urban gardening project application

Funding

Project planning guidelines

Involving the community

Budgeting

Writing a successful application for funding

Benefit to health

Urban gardening