1. General information
2. Objectives of the intervention
Goals of the intervention
Use of a long time closed construction site in the city centre for the development of communal gardens, education and recreation. (1)
Quantitative targets
Unknown
Monitoring indicators defined
Unknown
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Implementation activities
With the permission of the Municipality of Ljubljana, the site opened for temporary use for the duration of Bunker’s Garden By the Way programme (the second half of August 2010). A gate was installed to allow access to the land, the site was cleaned, learning about and preserving the trees and wild plants that had taken root there and carting in the first cubic meters of soil were done. The spring of 2011 brought new energy to the project when local residents responded to our invitation to “Make Your Own Garden”. The invitation anticipated the desire for small-plot gardening based on the rich local tradition of that practice. More than twenty people came to the meeting and that very day began enthusiastically setting up their vegetable beds. Thus the project got started and the gardening is still continuing. (1, 2 and 3)
Type of NBS project
3. NBS domains, ES and scale
4. Governance and financing
5. Innovation
Type of innovation
Novelty level of the innovation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
It's a first such communal gardening attempt in Ljubljana and boasts inclusion of disadvantaged groups, making it innovative, although the documents do not mention if it borrows from existing examples in other countries (1, 2 and 3)
Replicability/Transferability
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
In 2013, Botanical Garden started forming communal gardens next to the railway tracks, as part of an activitiy of weeding out invasive species from their land. (1)
6. Evaluation and learning
7. Sources
Please specify other source of non-financial contribution
Community groups Kud Obrat
