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In the “Kisdiófa” community garden, the gardening community provides 2-2 raised beds for applicants selected by tender for one year periods for
Kisdiófa Community Garden
NGO
2005
H-1077 Budapest, Kis Diófa u. 4.
The Kisdiófa Community Garden was opened in the 7th district of Budapest in 2016 with the support of the Municipality of Erzsébetváros, under the professional guidance and coordination of the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK). There are 44 individual/family plots and 4 raised beds for educational and other (art, community etc.) activities have been created. Located in the middle of the so-called “Bulinegyed”, this green “oasis” hosts a variety of community, professional and cultural events.
Commonly cultivated area: herb garden in raised bed, edible flowers, herbs, ornamental plants, garden fishpond
Permacultural and water-saving cultivation techniques are preferred in the garden. Chemicals and pesticides are not allowed to be used. Garden-community are producing compost and home-made compost tea and several times a year replenish and improve the nutrients in the soil and plants.
There is a bee-hotel (insect-shelter), bird feeders and a small garden fishpond for biodiversity. The natural habitat of pollinators is also important to the gardeners, so bee-keeping areas (esp. flower beds) are created in commonly cultivated parts of the garden.
Open Days are held regularly (first Saturdays of months) where interested visitors are highly welcome.
In the “Kisdiófa” community garden, the gardening community provides 2-2 raised beds for applicants selected by tender for one year periods
Since 2010 the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK) has been engaged in the naturalisation and distribution of community gardens. The Foundation worked out for the movement, which has become mostly self-organised by today, the 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. Our community gardens provide 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, (climate) awareness raising workshops, cultural and community developing programmes and events.
Garden communities in Hungary are less open to neighbourhoods. This does not help community gardens to become centres for climate adaptation knowledge sharing and awareness raising. Allocating some plots and raised beds of the community garden for community use will help to make the value of community gardening and gardens evident to the wider community.
Thematic or study plots and raised beds in community gardens provide possibilities to reveal the hidden potential and great values of these special green places to neighbourhood and the wider community. In the process of turning community gardens centres of (both formal and informal) education in the field of climate change adaptation these special plots could have a fundamental role.
