Terra d’orto has in hand a green area (a former farm) inside the Regional Park of the Appia Antica where it’s located the female residential centre for mental disabilities. Thanks to all this green space at disposal, we started to cultivate with the hosted women a piece of land. After some years we decided to open a shared community garden for families living in the neighborhood for free.
Objectives
Materials
Implementation
Evaluation
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To satisfy the needs of disabled people and generally the needs of the external public.
The position of the garden (the countryside in the city)
The initiatives already done have generated an increase of requests or new projects
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Improved access to the green areas but also to organisation.
Little interest from the public administration
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Little public funds
No legislative framework that support social agriculture
No recognition from the national health system of the therapeutic value of gardening activities.
Συμβουλές
Aims
- Through gardening disabled people and normally gifted people can interweave social relationships that favour integration
- To educate to the respect of the environment and to the sustainable use of the land
- The opening of a shared community garden in which families can cultivate the land for their subsistence is a quite new project and it comes from the need of opening the activities of the organization to a larger public.
Outcomes
The possibility for the hosted women to interact with other people and to transfer knowledge that they learnt through the work in the garden. People from the neighborhood become closer and more interested in the Centre’s activities. Proposals from the families in organizing event by involving the women.
