Urban community gardens are places where people sow, grow plants, and where they can meet and share other types of learning and exchange on topics such as culture, ancestry, healthy cooking, environmental sustainability. The garden can be a space for meeting, dialogue, relaxation, therapy, promotion of biodiversity.
And the gardeniser has the role of highlighting, supporting and mediating between all these issues. The gardeniser is a mediator function in urban community gardens who "cultivates" relations and takes care about the people involved in community participative processes.
19 new gardenisers have just been trained in the Gardeniser Pro course given by Replay Network aps in Barranquilla thanks to the 10 trainees from Barranquilla, Cali, Medellin and Rome (Italy).
The beautiful context of the training was the Universidad del Norte, which made available its classrooms, but also the natural spaces of the Batis Foundation and the Botanical Garden of Barranquilla.
We continue to support the training of gardenisers for the urban community gardens in Barranquilla.
The Gardeniser Pro training is part of the project GenerACTOR - Community gardens for good governance, active citizenship and participation, a project co-funded by the European Commission.
