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Urban gardening - project metropolitan area Nürnberg
Project
Project code: KL/17/01
Contract period: 01.04.2017
- 31.12.2019
Budget: 90,665 Euro
Purpose of research: Demonstration
Keywords: Urban gardening, demonstration of different vegetable growing systems, relationship with food production, to show appreciation for food production, food circulation in towns, consumer buying habit
The project objectives are options for vegetable growing in context with urban gardening, motivation for “grow your own” and partly food self-sufficiency. Action points are weekly markets, open house days especially for public authorities and nurseries also events with high citizens participation in order to show urban gardening systems.
Common greens will be used as model areas for urban gardening in Nürnberg, Fürth and Erlangen. Recommendations for action in order to promote urban gardening will be given to citizens, consumer and professional gardeners. All information should be widely publicized. New communication media are used for example short videos and social media. In addition soil independent systems such as floating-systems are checked for practicability.
Section overview
Subjects
- Vegetable Gardening
Funding programme
Excutive institution
LWG - Institute of commercial and recreational horticulture (IEF)
Participating institutions
- Office of Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry Fürth (AELF)
- State College for Agriculture Fürth, Vegetable Gardening
- City of Nuremberg - Department for Environment and Health
- City of Fürth
- District of Fürth
- City of Erlangen
- Community of interests Regional Movement Mittelfranken in Bundesverband der Regionalbewegung eV