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A community garden, called “Grundk3rt” in the 8th district of Budapest came up with the idea in 2016 to celebrate community gardens on the first Saturday of September by analogy with the Night of Museums. The 1st Community Garden Night was a collaboration between more than 10 community gardens in the capital, giving visitors the opportunity to get a glimpse into the exciting and diverse world of urban gardens.
Community gardens
No relevance. It is a bottom-up initiative which needs effective collaboration of the relevant actors (gardening communities) to make the event successful.
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Community gardens
In recent years, dozens of community gardens have been created in Budapest and in the countryside. Neglected residential green spaces, schoolyards, or even vacant inner-city shacks have been transformed in a short time into multifunctional community spaces for growing local and healthy vegetables and fruits, for relaxation and networking. The 1st Community Garden Night in 2016 was a collaboration between more than 10 community gardens in the capital, giving visitors the opportunity to get a glimpse into the exciting and diverse world of urban gardens. Next year (2017), rural gardens have joined the initiative.
Organisers’ aim was to raise awareness of the value and community-building power of community gardens and to spark the imagination and initiative of visitors. They wanted to help make the idea of “What if I could garden somewhere?” a reality. To show what it means to work together and collaborate to make a community of gardeners in the gardening process.
Night of the community gardens event is to celebrate the community gardening movement. To Raise awareness of the value and community-building power of community gardens and to spark the imagination and initiative of visitors. To show what it means to work together and collaborate to make a community of gardeners in the gardening process.
Each of the participating gardens have their own programme for the Night. Generally, programmes start with an introductory walk in the very garden revealing the details of the life of a community garden. Then participants can be involved in different activities such as
During the night visitors and gardeners could move from gardens to gardens in the city.
Community Garden Nights is a classic bottom-up imitative which does not need centralised organisation. Participating gardens have to prepare their own programme and share the event on their own social media platform and the FB page of the Community Garden Night initiative.
Community Garden Nights is a low-budget, classic bottom up initiative providing opportunity to popularise urban community gardens and giving visitors the opportunity to get a glimpse into the exciting and diverse world of urban gardens.
