Le Coin de Terre association manages the community gardens in Liège (Belgium). With these 290 cultivable plots, the Coin de Terre de Bressoux (sub-municipality of the city of Liège) is the largest Walloon collective vegetable garden and above all, a formidable socio-cultural laboratory around a dynamic of sustainable and inclusive food bringing together Liégeois actors such as La Bobine, The Secular Action Center of the Province of Liège, Arsenic2, the Adoc company, MADIL, and more.
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The Community Garden of Ca n’Anglada, located in Terrassa (Spain), it’s a project that has been active since 2013, offering individuals at risk of social exclusion, including migrants and their families, the opportunity to engage in organic vegetable cultivation for self-consumption.
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“The Flower, the Bee, and the City” (Blomsten, bien og byen) is an urban gardening project that uses city farms as spaces for learning and community engagement, with a strong focus on youth. Activities include urban agriculture, foraging, product development, and sales at markets and to local businesses.
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Another example of a successful Community Garden experience is Ballymun Community Garden (Ireland), ‘Green Living and Sustainability Gardens’ (GLAS) which has been described as a place for “learning and social inclusion.”19 Many of the users of the garden are asylum seekers. Horticulturist and Manager of the garden said that while people come for the garden, many stay for the social aspect and it becomes like a family.
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