We offer gardeners to organize festive meals on the gardens.
Vegetables and herbs from the garden are used to cook meals.
These dishes are prepared on site in the garden and / or at the gardener’s home.
Those invited are: gardeners, inhabitants of the neighborhood and external people (partners, other gardeners from other gardens ...).
Objectives
What makes it a good practice or tool?
- This tool is a good pretext to bring people to the garden (social diversity and generational mix) ; people who probably would not have met elsewhere.
- depending on location, this action may be part of a more global coherence process; for example in the garden of Nereides Grove, part of the kitchen is made with olive oil from olives collected on trees in the city by the inhabitants.
- This tool can also help introduce new directions of projects on topics related to health (nutrition, ...)
Materials
Implementation
Evaluation
Evaluation
- Indicators: the quantity and quality of attendees relative to initial targets: only inhabitants (gardeners and non gardeners) or also outsiders. The hardest part is to bring the inhabitants (non-gardeners and gardeners).
- The next meeting of gardeners allows them to make an analysis of what went well or less well past that day.
Tips
Aims and Outcomes
AIMS
- To open the gardens to other people, interests and concerns.
- To gather and create greater cohesion between gardeners and non gardeners of the social housings, and with gardeners from other city gardens.
- Set up an event that makes gardens visible, in view to awareness the financial, technical and social partners of the gardens.
- Introduce, from vegetables and herbs from the garden, the pleasure of eating and health theme.
OUTCOMES
70 to 90 guests received during two meals on the Nereides Bosquet garden (“Habiter la Cité, c’est faire ensemble”); 35 people on the Pont-de-Vivaux garden ; 25 people in the Tuileries garden.
The participants really enjoy being here.
We need to inform and communicate more to bring more non-gardeners.
