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Although every community garden indirectly has a positive impact on the climate of its environment, being climate-conscious is a higher level that is worth reaching. This year Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre introduced the Climate Conscious Garden Certification and logo on its Community Gardening Projects website (www.kozossegikertek.hu) This certification is awarded to community gardens that meet all 3 main criterias:
This certification aims to reward conscious steps towards eco-friendliness with this logo and draw attention to the positive activities of the garden towards the wider community.
Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre
NGO
2005
H-1111 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 10-12.
Since 2010 the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK) has been engaged in the naturalisation and distribution of community gardens. The Foundation worked to make this self-organised movement methodology, legal background and models adaptable to the Hungarian environment. It also supported the development of the cause with education, consultancy and creation of a knowledge base with special regard to institutional and individual adaptation to climate change.
KÉK Community Gardens Project provides gardening opportunities for almost 800 city residents. Apart from the gardeners working on the plots of our community gardens, every year thousands of people attend the various workshops, cultural and community development programmes.
Organising community gardens of the country into a network would be an important next step in the development of the community gardens project, as well as establishing connection with similar international platforms. Its website, with its renewed content and functionality, is an important instrument for this, and we hope it will not only provide current information about Hungarian community gardens, but also function as a coordinating- and knowledge centre. The Foundation likes to share its knowledge that has been gathered during the past years and would like to provide a platform where community gardens and their gardeners and people curious about the topic could find each other and become participants of a bigger community.
The Climate Conscious Garden Certificate is a recognition that is also a motivational tool. The gardening community, applying for the label, must rethink its activities in terms of climate awareness. They need to assess whether they can and will change their current gardening practices, if necessary, and whether they are striving for water conservation (rainwater harvesting, biodiversity and zero waste).
On one hand, the Climate Conscious Garden Certificate helps to create a climate-conscious identity for garden communities. On the other hand, this certificate strengthens the sense of belonging among community gardens in Hungary.
If there is no such certification existing in your county, it is time to implement some!
The Climate Conscious Garden Certificate is a motivating recognition for gardening communities. In order to get the certificate, the gardening community must consider its common and individual activities in terms of climate awareness. They need to assess whether they can and will change their current gardening practices, if necessary, and whether they are striving for water conservation (rainwater harvesting, biodiversity and zero waste). The Climate Conscious Garden Certificate helps to create a climate-conscious identity for garden communities and strengthens the sense of belonging among community gardens.