The association runs a self-production shared garden. It is open to any individual (the only condition is to be a member of the association - 10 euros per year) and institutions (provided that the garden is able to meet their goals for integration, socialization and learning organic gardening). The garden contributes to the Education for Sustainable Development (composting, organic farming, biodynamic ...).
The garden works in solidarity in a solidarity-based way/collective way. Anyone who participates in the garden (two half days) is entitled to a share of the crop (whatever the activities that the participant has completed).
Activities and plantations are supervised by a qualified employee (who oversees the program of planting, harvesting), he adapts the activities according to the possibilities of gardeners (handicap…).
Objetivos
This is an innovative tool because it addresses unmet needs:
- Access to land
- This activity creates social mix
- This activity creates social links.
This is a leisure activity very little binding leisure activity demands very little: each participant practices this activity according to his needs.
Development of solidarity, sharing and working together.
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Aplicación
Evaluación
- social mix (gardeners having different status: retired, people in work receiving minimum social benefits, Unemployment, disability..)
- social diversity (gardeners with different status: retired or working people, others receiving minimum social benefits, or being unemployed, disabled,…)
- number of gardeners participating in the garden
- presence or absence of conflict; usability conviviality (meals, parties, ...)
- harvest from the garden
- degree of financial autonomy of the project (to have as much freedom as possible in the project management)
Consejos
The objectives of the association are:
- Fight against exclusion (social, financial, civic ...)
- Participation to better nutrition
- Sustainable Development
Gardeners reap the following benefits:
- Awareness of organic farming;
- Awareness of healthy eating (seasonal vegetables);
- Cost savings (for some);
- The practice of this activity is the creator of generates social links (particularly for retirees, the unemployed, housewives, recipients of social minima)
