Social garden at Lucie-Flechtmann-Platz

Social justice and cohesion:
-Increased opportunities for social interaction: "We share an open, tolerant attitude. We want to tackle things and try things out together. Lucie should be fun for us, after all, we do everything voluntarily. To ensure that this succeeds, we make agreements and decisions together in the plenum and listen not only to our heads, but sometimes also to our gut feeling" (Ref. 5).
-Increased involvement of locals in the management of green spaces: "The concrete wasteland Lucie-Flechtmann-Platz, or Lucie for short, offers space the size of a football field. Gray on gray and properly concreted, Lucie was completely unused for 10 years. That has changed. The huge space belongs to everyone in Bremen and they want to use and design it - in self-organization!" (Ref. 5).
-Increased access to healthy/affordable food: "We harvest Sunday gardening every week. At the end of the gardening, we divide the harvested vegetables among all those who helped to garden. Sometimes we still eat together on site or have vegetables planned for one of our harvest festivals. The harvest is a small reward for those who invest a large part of their free time in the garden" (Ref. 5).
-Improvement of sustainable agriculture practices: The garden is signatory to the "Urban Gardening Manifesto" (Ref. 5). "Our goals are local food cultivation instead of global transport routes, participation and dialogue instead of social cold, recycling and upcycling instead of a throwaway society, and the promotion of biodiversity and adaptation to climate change through urban greenery" (Ref. 5).

Health and wellbeing:
-Gain in activities for recreation and exercise: the garden is run by volunteers, "Lucie invites people to rethink, to become active themselves and to work for sustainable and future-oriented urban development" (Ref. 5).

Cultural heritage and sense of place:
-Improvement in people’s connection to nature/Increased appreciation for natural spaces: "Through our practice-oriented events and the associated take up of diverse ecological topics, the participants experience a relationship to nature that can also be transferred to their everyday lives. This arouses interest in our environment, promotes environmental knowledge and natural and environmental protection as well as sustainability become a natural part of our lives" (Ref. 5).

Education
-Support education and scientific research/Increased knowledge of locals about local nature: "On the Lucie, children and young people have the opportunity, among other things, to understand how staple foods are made and the associated workload. Participation in our events makes ecological connections understandable and leads to a more appreciative handling of food and the direct living environment of the participants. Through our practice-oriented events and the associated take up of diverse ecological topics, the participants experience a relationship to nature that can also be transferred to their everyday lives. This arouses interest in our environment, promotes environmental knowledge and natural and environmental protection as well as sustainability become a natural part of our lives" (Ref. 5).