Social gardening
Are you looking for help maintaining your garden? Or would you be happy if someone in your garden maintained a vegetable garden and shared the yield with you? Post a message on buurtnatuur030.nl.
Are you renting from BO.EX in Utrecht? Then sign up for a free front yard makeover together with Straatboer.
Would you like to help a neighbour in the garden, or would you like to maintain a vegetable garden in someone else's garden and share the yield? Place your offer on buurtnatuur030.nl.
Do you want more green in your neighbourhood? Ask what you can do to Nature and Environment Federation Utrecht.
Especially for young people:
join the online garden project of our partner AllOne. Mail info@allone.nl.
In 2024, we helped four U-pasholders with organic gardening. HovenHier did the work and Duurzaam Utrecht 2030 supported it with funding from the initiative fund. See the blog.
Why Social Gardening?
During conversations with Utrecht residents with a small budget in 2022, it became clear that some people would like a vegetable garden, but do not have a garden. There are also people with a garden that is growing too big for them. Together with Social Work students from the Hogeschool Utrecht, we tried to find both groups and have them garden together, sharing the yield. People who want help in their garden are easier to find than people who want to maintain someone else's vegetable garden. Read here what we have discovered so far.
On November 15, 2023, we brainstormed with visitors of De Voorkamer in Lombok about social gardening. Read the report here. On November 27, 2023, Alice Bezett led a focus group on social gardening during the workshop Making sustainable living on a tight budget possible at the Social Impact Factory on the Gracht.
Are you interested in social gardening? Let us know via ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl. Or contact Alice Bezett of HovenHier.
Contact details
Address: p/a EthicSchool, PO Box 455, 3500 AL Utrecht
E-mail address: ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl
