Urban Community Garden "Miracle Gardens"
Project owner: Associaton for sustainable living promotion GARDEN BED
Responsible person: Goran Hanžek
2013
3rd Prize
HR
Civil Society / Social Economy
Poverty
This is the first project of its kind in Croatia: healthy and affordable food for all who participate, organic farming, conservation and recovery of species diversity, self-organized work on a communal basis, and self-sustaining cooperation in solidarity with one another. The innovative concept has been written about and talked about. Its impact extends far beyond the people directly involved and it has already become a model for other towns and cities. The project is also about resistance to industrialized food production. ‘Miracle Gardens’ demonstrate that a public space can be used productively, opening up possibilities for imagining other community-based initiatives too.