Outdoor activity – Create your own community garden: Design and Implementation

Social Agriculture

Outdoor activity 2

Create your own community garden: Design and Implementation

This activity can teach you how urban green care actions can improve mental health, simply by using your internet skills and critical thinking! Learning to identify urban green care activities in your area or city and promote their health benefits for citizens, can help you in the future to volunteer or work in green CSOs or networks that find, promote and incubate such initiatives.

Ages

From 13 onwards

Number of Participants

10-20

Venue

Indoors

Time of Activity

1-2 hrs

Introduction

After you have identified an area in your locality that could become a community garden take some time in groups to think of the steps and principles that are to be followed while gardening.

Materials Needed

Notebook, paper, and colouring pencils

Instructions

This can be done as an individual or group activity.

Research Permaculture basics
Think of the most important things that you need available to start gardening (water, soil, not too much wind etc)
Research local flora and fauna which could be added to the garden to attract bees
Research no-tilling methos to protect biodiversity
Research how start a compost
After the research (in groups / indivitually) draw and colour the garden which you envision in the disused land that you have identified in your locality

Explanation

How to Start a Permaculture Garden in 8 Steps

Acquaint yourself with your surroundings. …
Choose plants based on your environment. …
Design your garden layout. …
Build your garden beds. …
Plant your permaculture garden. …
Add a layer of organic mulch to the topsoil. …
Add compost without disturbing the soil.