PRESENTATIONS OF PARTICIPANT'S GARDENS

STUDY VISIT 3 ROME - ITALY

26TH OF SEPTEMBER - 1ST OF OCTOBER

WELCOME EVENT

Palazzo Valentini 27th of September 2012


EU'GO PARTNERS: WHO WE ARE

• Pistes-Solidaires, FRANCE

• RJSM, FRANCE

• Cemea del Mezzogiorno, ITALY

• KC-English, UK

• Nexes, SPAIN

• Inwole, GERMANY


Urban Gardens to share a better life in the European cities of tomorrow

THE MISSION of EU'GO

Create social links

Intercultural dialogue

Social inclusion Vocational training Education to sustainable developement Intergenerationnal dialogue


EU’GO STRATEGY

2012-2013: 2 years to create an e-learning method

Various steps:

1. State of the art

2. Meetings, exchanges, study visits

3. Sharing experiences, discover new methods

4. Test new practices in my garden of origin

5. Feed-backs, improvements

6. Creation of the e-learning method


EU’GO PEOPLE

LET’S GIVE THE FLOW TO THE GARDENERS …


FRANCE

RJSM,

Gardens :

Croq’Jardin

A fleur de pierre

Cosmos Kolej

Cap Vert

Les Jardins de l’Espérance



RJSM Réseau des Jardins Solidaires

Mediterranéens Created in 1999

Non fro profit organisation : French association

Members of RJSM are:

• independent association having a garden or a garden project

•Individuals interested in “shared gardens”

•Private companies whith activity is related to “shared gardens”

•Public institution having a garden or a garden project

30 to 50 garden members on the south of France

Among our gardens: Family gardens (individual plots),

Collective gardens ( one plots for all)

Educational gardens

Inclusion gardens

Thematic gardens e.g. therapeutic, historical, dyeing plants….

Every garden is unique, and yet all the garden of our network recognize themselves in the network because they share the same values of respect of the human being, respect of the environment, and solidarity.


RJSM

• A network to create some link

To give Help and support, sharing experiences and practices

• A network to improve our knowledge

Holding formal and non formal training, ressource center

• A network to lobby

To increase public and politics’ awareness

To help new projects


RJSM

People involved -Administration council: 24 - staff: 5 people, equivalent to 3 full time - A project manager, responsible for the garden, full-time, permanent - an environmental educator to, permanent - 2 part-time gardeners, a seasonal worker. - A « compost master » in charge of the composting -Volunteers: volunteers from the organisation plus 2 young (two part-time) civic service volunteers -Gardeners: 17 families, and 12 people on collective plots


-located in Provence near Aix en Provence.

-The garden was created in 2000 by a social development organization

-The garden is composed of individual plots « family gardens », collective plots , and educational plots


ressources

- The projects of the garden are financed by private foundations and the region. Part of the funding has to come from other sources (selling products or services)

Activities:

- Worshops and visits in the garden for 2000 children and 100 adults, on ecological gardening, compost, eductaion to sustainable development…

- Food production (famillies/collectives plots) and support for organic production

- Ex situ gardening: in schools, centers for disabled people, eldery houses, and even a prison!

- Gardening with disabled

- We use gardening activities to help and teenagers toward a social integration

- Annual festival " all in the garden " with demonstrations, exhibitions, seeds and plants exchanges, conferences …

- Collective composting center (for individuals and professionals)


-We receive several group of children and urban young people (Marseille – Aix en Provence…) coming to get fresh ideas in the garden .

-We organize mini stays " of the urban in the Indian " which allow the young people to live in a natural environment. They sleep under the tipi, they cook with the sun, build ecological devices for the garden.

-We designed mobile garden tanks on wheels to install in schools and community centers, in town without ground, as well as prison garden in a court of walk in the prison of Salon de Provence

-We are specialized in biological gardening and in composting techniques .


A FLEUR DE PIERRE

Location: Digne Les Bains, a small town, 19000 inhabitants, in the Alpes piemont

Organisation:

non for profit organisation, French association

People involved:

-administration council: 10 people, Volunteers

-Employed staff: 1 manager, 1 trainer/coordinator, 3 garden workers

-other Volunteers : according to projects

-65 Gardeners

3 different gardens in the city:

divided in plots for invidual or families, with pedagogical and common plots

-The gardens are managed by cooperation between staff and gardeners, in each garden they are regular gardener meetings to organise the life, the common work, and deal with the arising issues.

-Financial resources include public funding, private foundations and donations, selling training courses or workshops, and doing some garden work for private owners


-created in 2006, first garden in 2007

-first garden: to produce food on land not wanted by the owner, 11 plots

-second garden: collaboration with another organisation working on compost, with objectives related to environment, health, waste issue, and re-urbanization, 17 plots

-third garden: offered for gardening by the owner, 4 plots


A FLEUR DE PIERRE

Main activities

-Technical support for organic gardening, social link, organising common work and bringing people together, environmental education for the local schools and leisure centers, organising the collective compost and distribution to the gardeners, training sessions, conferences,… and big parties!

-The collective compost program is a pilot program supported by the local institutions and the national energy and sustainable development agency.


COSMOS KOLEJ

- Cultural center in the Northern neighbourhood of Marseille. Artists residency: theatre, circus, arts, musicians, film makers.

- 9 cultural workers (1 specific for gardens).

- Art activities: for pupils from 7 to 15 years old

- The garden: 62 families + 4 childcare classes.

- Educational workshop “du jardin à l’assiette”(from the garden to the plate)

- 60 individuals plots in total.

- Rehabilitation with youngsters of a garden in small residence, to be given to the inhabitants.


COSMOS KOLEJ

2003 : opening of the residence Cosmos Kolej

2006 : creation of 10 individual plots and 2 shared plots

2009 : 37 new plots

2012 : social housing agency : creation of a new garden down the buildings: inauguration 18th of October.

Financial ressources :institutions working on urban social inequalities, social housing agency , Marseille Municipality, the FEDER, and the foundation Logirem.

Staff members of the garden: 1 full-time person + other 8 members of Cosmos Kolej + 62 families


COSMOS KOLEJ

Main activities:

- Workshop “Du jardin à l’assiette” (childcare): 4 groups of 24 pupils come 4 times during the year and discover the links between what is growing and what we eat.

- Gardening initiation week for youngsters with their educators + presentation to the neighbours.

- Seasonal meetings with gardeners: share information, wishes, collective tasks: clean the paths, small repair activities.


ASSOCIATION CAP VERT

Traditional garden in Cap Corse

-Location : LURI, northern Corsica, Cap Corse

-Type of organisation : non-commercial association

-Number and type of active involved people : board presided by a chairman, with 10 volunteer board members,

-6 employees,

-200 association members

- Organisation of the area : private land rented out to the association


ASSOCIATION CAP VERT HISTORY AND ORGANISATION

OF THE CORSICAN CONSERVATION GARDEN

Founded in 1992, the association Cap Vert, in collaboration with the Regional Nature Reserve of Corsica proposes a solution of conservation and valorisation of the local cultivated heritage. “The Traditional Gardens of Cap Corse” are the results of this endeavour and are unique on the island. They bring together 100 fruit trees, 50 vegetable varieties and a herb garden.

In 2004 the gardens were awarded the Organic Agriculture certification.

The association is presided by a a chairman and a board of ten official volunteers, six salaried employees involved in cultivation, seed production, gardening, awareness actions through tourism, external communication and animations.

MAIN OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES

to preserve, study, valorise and diffuse the local varieties of plants to Corsican farmers and gardeners, using traditional cultural techniques

encourage the diffusion of local seeds via a network of producers.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

- Research and tests : natural plant treatments using the wild local environment

- Tourism : a traditional visit and a child-friendly circuit are proposed to discover the gardens

- Shop and Products : sales and degustation of local produce, jams or syrups, which are transformed by the association using fruits and vegetables from the gardens.

- Communication/awareness/educational actions : events, environmental animations for children, youth training sessions, manual skills activities program

MAIN & FUTURE PROJECTS

-Hortitherapy for OAPs of the Clinique of Luri

-Creation of a Conservation garden of wild Corsican plants

-Fabrication of insect houses.

ASSOCIATION CAP VERT




Location:

La Ciotat, 35 Km west of Marseille

City of 40 000 inhabitants

Organisation:

Non for profit organisation: French association, created in 1995

People involved:

Administration council: 8 members, volunteers

Staff: 8 permanents: 1 manager, 4 environmental educators, 3 social inclusion workers

28 employees on social inclusion programs

3 very active volunteers

Garden organisation:

Only a small part cultivated for vegetable, plots attributed according to projects


Photo(s) /LOGO

-Created 1995

- initially an environment education project, with special focus on special needs public

-2001 first inclusion programs for people in the process of going back or starting to work

-Funding: public institution from city council up to Europe; donnors; selling worshops, visits, and training courses; work in gardens and natural areas




Main activities:

-Environmental education for school children and groups

-Raising ecological awareness: guided walk in natural areas, conferences and workshops

-Hortitherapy, therapeutic gardening and gardening adapted to special needs

-Holydays activities for children

-Training courses and workshops in environmental education and organic gardening

-Garden creation inside schools and other structures

-Garden and green spaces creation and maintenance



GERMANY

PROJEKTHAUS – INWOLE

TON STEINE GARTEN – BERLIN

INTERKULTURELLE

NATURWERKSTADT


The ASSOCIATION for supporting innovative forms of habitation and living

> registered since 2003

> 20 subscribed members

> located: in Potsdam, working-field: federal country

Brandenburg

> NGO status, non-commercial

> structure: coordination (2), financers, building team,

project-teams, ...

> president: Patric Kahler, Jens-Uwe Marx,Christin

Zschoge-Meile

> wide circle of supporters and sustaining members


Projektpart Urban Gardening

First project in May 2011 with young people from France and Germany

the main intention was to build an high-bed with native plants (mainly herbs)

find more projects (Prinzessinnengarten Berlin, Interkultureller Garten Potsdam, Kooperative Karlshof, Templin)

Permakultur: What does it mean? How to use it our own garden? (Ökologischer Fußabdruck)

get information and interexchange


Projektpart Urban Gardening

Important and interesting themes

Subsistence and self-production in the region

Permakulutur and ecological footprint

Networking and interexcahnge (old knowledge, on web-site, seminars)

Native plants and how to plant and use for self-production (like toothpaste, to eat, tea ...)

What is also possible? (guerilla gardening, native schools,...)


Ton Steine Gärten

Photo(s) /LOGO 1.History

2007 started the planning for the rearangement of the area. A municipality is anticipated

Our group wants a neighbourhood selfsupporting garden

The municipality refuses it

The area is getting squattered, but not from us

The municipality is willing to talk with us, it’s better to have a garden rather than squatters

Leasing contract with the municipality, but we don’t pay loan

2000 square meters are promised but we`re getting only 1000 square meters

August 2009: the soil is completely changed, the garden is openend


Ton Steine Gärten

Photo(s) /LOGO - 2. Facts

The garden is located at Berlin-Kreuzberg

about 1000 square meters of garden on public spot with free water supply

contract of lease from the municipality, no rent

disadvantages: no fence, lots of dog´s muck, lot´of thievery

About 60 patches for singles and groups, no fences between our patches

We have a area with patches for our children

Everybody is allowed to plant what they want, except trees and high bushes

Some patches are community ones: Tomatoes, pumpkins, herbs

Everybody can rest in our garden


Ton Steine Gärten

Photo(s) /LOGO -3. Our Group - what is important for us

about 80 people of all ages from the neighbourhood

Many nationalities

frequent meetings by choice, not everyone is participating

Work groups: community patches, compost, children´s patches (meetings with the kids and their parents and friends)

Community workdays, we are gardening together


Ton Steine Gärten

Photo(s) /LOGO 4. What we are doing apart from gardening

-We party and cook together

-Mid April: seasons opening with seeds and plant swapping at the Participation with “La Via Campesina” day

-other activities: Demonstrations, Refugees Day, Exhibitions, “Long day of city nature Berlin”

-Networking with other urban gardens in Berlin and near by

-We show tourists our garden

-We support the souveranity of food

-Public relation: Interest of science (Universities) and media

Community workdays

„Via campesina“ - The tree of refugees

„Via campesina“ – action day

Heirloom bean varieties


- ORGANIZATION :Interkulturelle NaturWerkStadt

- LOCATION: Berlin,Kreuzberg

- OBJECTIVES: A didactic project for children

- vegetable and herb garden with pond,

- rooftop garden,

- beekeeping

- MAIN ACTIVITIES: Maintain the Gardens,

- Processing the garden and bees products

- Experiencing nature in the garden and at the pond

- Handcrafting with nature materials


Interkulturelle NaturwerkStadt

- Project is part of and administrated by Quartiersmanagement (district management) Graefekiez

- Associated to Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstrasse e.V.

- One project manager at the moment one MAE-worker

- The main garden is situated at the outdoor area of the Graefekids childrens club.

- The rooftop garden belongs to the building which is hosting the project´s office and workshop rooms . District management office and other social institutions/associations are also residing here.


:

- …The project was started in 2006 on the grounds of the youth club graefekids . There was no garden before, only shrubs and small trees that had to be cleared off.

- The roof garden with apiary began in 2009.

Creator was Lisa Schwab, a landscape architect. She originally coordinated a maintenance project for the courtyards of a big public housing block in the neighbourhood of the youth club

- It is an inner city area mainly inhabited migrant families with Arabian background. The project mainly provides an opportunity to children of the block between 6 and 12 years .





• Photo(s) /LOGO





Interkulturelle

NaturwerkStadt






SPAIN

NEXES

ES BIOSFERA

PHOENICURUS


NEXES INTERCULTURALS DE JOVES PER EUROPA

Nexes is a non profit organization based in Barcelona.

We work with the local community and with other countries of the world to promote intercultural learning, active participation and a social transformation that sees in diversity an enriching resource.

Our aim is to foster dialogue and exchange among cultures, work to promote peace, transnational cooperation, social inclusion and active participation of young people in the building up of our society.


With the tools of non formal education we organize and implement training courses, workshops, youth exchanges, projects of European Voluntary Service and Leonardo da Vinci, and other activities for young people and adults. Our multicultural team is enriched by youth workers, trainers and experts of European programmes, intercultural learning and human rights. We cooperate with institutions, NGOs, bodies and enterprises and we take part in local and international networks.


PHOENICURUS CARDEDEU

We are in CARDEDEU, a town 40 km north-east of Barcelona;

There are TWO of us – Gisela and Mark – who created and manage the project;

We currently cultivate by hand three plots totalling 3300 m2, and provide weekly organic vegetable boxes for a consumer cooperative in Cardedeu itself .



- We sowed the first seed in November 2009 , with a desire to put into practice things we had learnt WWOOFing during the previous months;

- We continued experimenting and allowed the project to develop organically until the creation of the cooperative;

- From the beginning, we have made the garden as open as possible to people in the town and surrounding area who wish to know more about organic horticulture and permaculture;

- We are self-organised, and carry out all necessary tasks ourselves.



Examples of social and educational activities we have organised (so far):

- Creation of a seedbank for other gardeners in the town;

- Workshop on solar-powered devices;

- Book-swaps for St. George’s Day;

- Visit of a local primary school;

- Permaculture workshops and courses;

- Advanced Organic Horticulture course;

- Monthly “Open Doors” for the members of the cooperative;

- Regular guided visits for individuals and small groups who get into contact

Our garden is in the urban centre of Cardedeu

and there’re 20 plots of 45m2 . The teachers of

the school offer courses about organic

agriculture, permaculture and sustainable

mediterranean gardens since february 2012.

On the other hand, EsBiosfera promotes self-

sufficiency, health and consumption

awareness through courses and workshops.

We’re EsBiosfera

school, located in

Cardedeu, a town

near Barcelona,

Catalonia, Spain


ORGANIC AGRICULTURE

Introduction to Organic Agriculture

Advanced Organic Agriculture

Balcony gardening

Permaculture workshop

Use your “weeds”

Sustainable gardens

The magic world of seeds

SELF-SUFFICIENCY Baking bread Making saussages Cheese Handmade beer Fresh pasta Designing and sowing your clothes Recicling clothes Knitting a jumper Hair self-cutting Basic repairs at home Natural and therapeutic cosmetics Medicinal plants and essential oils

URBAN ECOLOGY

Solar cooking

Solar Energy workshop

BioArquitecture: towards a more sustainable habitat

Basic techniques of Bioconstruction

ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN WITH THE PROJECT “L’HORTET”

Our aim as social enterprise is to exert as a transforming agent of society, increasing the number of people leading changes towards a more sustainable, ecological, healthy and aware life. EsBiosfera believes that another world is possible.

www.esbiosfera.cat

Jordi Bonet i Gemma Velasco

http://www.esbiosfera.cat/



ENGLAND

KC ENGLISH

MONT EDGCUMBE PARK


KC English

• We provide training, english classes, work experience and support for community groups

• We also participate in in European-level activity:

– Older people (50+) via “Senior Volunteering”

– Learning Partnerships

– Large scale projects

– Lifelong Learning projects

• We work closely with a larger NGO in our area – Point Europa. Point Europa was involved in the “Green Fingers” Grundtvig project. This project arranged exchange visits for gardeners working with young people, co-ordinated by them. Point Europa also has links with other organisations providing staff, volunteers and suport for city-based projects which offer gardening opportunities for disadvantaged people in Plymouth, our nearest city.


Mount Edgcumbe

• Photo(s) /LOGO • Cornwall, Cremyll .5 km or 1 mile from

Plymouth the 10th largest city in England

• Owned by Plymouth City Council,

Cornwall Council the council is elected by

the public so the park is owned by

everyone

• 12 full time staff 50 volunteers

• 865 Acres or 430 hectares


Mount Edgcumbe

• Photo(s) /LOGO • 10 miles or 6.25 miles of coast line.

• Mount Edgcumbe was created by the Edgcumbe

family in 1500 originally to hold a deer park.

• In 1550 the house at the top of the hill was

built.

• The landscape park was created over the next

240 years.

• With the creation of over 50 listed builds folly

summer houses seats and an Orangery


Mount Edgcumbe • The Formal Gardens were created in 1794 to include themed gardens

which are the first examples in the UK they are Italian Garden, French Garden, English landscape Garden


Mount Edgcumbe

• The Country park was sold by the 6th Earl in 1971 and was bought by Plymouth City Council and Cornwall Council.

• Run by a joint committee and managed by the Estate Manager.

• Over 50 volunteers help run the park from gardening stewarding in the house and helping to run transport links around the park.


Mount Edgcumbe

• Photo(s) /LOGO

Funded by rents from property, money from both Plymouth Council and Cornwall Council, Car parking charges, and leasing of land.

The benefit to the community is to have a large green space, open and free to everyone to enjoy and relax in a place of natural beauty.


Mount Edgcumbe

• Photo(s) /LOGO

We have a large group of fund raisers and helpers called The Friends of Mount

Edgcumbe, the organization numbers over 500 people. They all come from the

local community and help with projects around the park.

Grade 1 Landscape Park and formal Gardens


Mount Edgcumbe

• Photo(s) /LOGO

• Learn to survive outside on one of our bush craft days

• Painting classes

• Photographic work shops

• Guided Deer walks


Mount Edgcumbe • You can get Married in the Historic

House.

• WE have over 35,0000 visitors a year.

• The park has thousands of walkers on the coastal path every year.

• Hundreds of school groups come for education and a chance to play out side away from the city

• Historic house is open to the public

• Bats guided walks

• Dawn chorus walks

• Foraging for fungus walks

• Historic guided walks over 50 listed buildings

Mount Edgcumbe

Mount Edgcumbe

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