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dilluns, 6 de novembre del 2017

Badalona City Council Allotment Gardens

Since the first of October, I am doing the control and monitoring of the Badalona City Council Allotment Gardens.

Torre Codina Allotment Garden - Foto: Xavier Recasens

Badalona has 80 plots for urban gardening. According to City Council rules, these plots are for retired citizens. They can grow vegetables under organic agriculture. The production is for themselves, the users can not sell it. The plots have 25 square meters each. 

Can Cabanyes Allotment Garden - Foto: Xavier Recasens
I have been speaking with some users and they said me that the surface it was enough for one couple. Perhaps in summer they give some tomatoes to their relatives.

Fava beans - Foto: Xavier Recasens

These allotment gardens are located in two farm houses or manor houses (Torre Codina/ Can Cabanyes). The ancient orchards are used for urban agriculture.


dissabte, 1 de juliol del 2017

Urban allotment gardens complaint


An important newspaper in Catalonia has published a letter to editor related to urban allotment gardens Letter to editor (It is in Catalan).
Can Mestres Allotment garden - Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain).

The author complains that Barcelona city allotment gardens only accepted retired users (more than 65 years old). This role is discriminatory for citizens with less of 65 years old.

Polish allotment garden (Warsaw, Poland)


I had an interesting conversation about this topic with Miguel. He is working in Cascais Municipality (Portugal). He has the opinion that city allotment garden should be diverse as the society, not a ghetto for retired people or people with risk of social exclusion.

In my opinion these city allotment garden should be opened to retired people, of course, but young people, families, single parent families, immigrants and people with risk of social exclusion too.

Private allotment garden (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
I know a case of city allotment garden that it is opened to all society. This urban allotment garden is located in Tiana (Catalonia, Spain).

Tiana Allotment garden - Tiana (Catalonia, Spain)
I am sure that Barcelona city council only offers places for retired citizens, because Barcelona is a dense city with scarce number of places for urban allotment gardens localitation. 

If demand of urban allotment garden increase, the city councils  will change their roles.



dijous, 12 de desembre del 2013

Allotment Gardens in Barcelona Metropolitan Region (More examples)

More allotment gardens in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region.

I show two examples more:

Can Mestre in Barcelona city. It is the first time that I have visited an allotment garden under Barcelona council control. The space is a farm house and a piece of farmland around it. The house and farmland are city council property. The farmland is divided in small plots that are growing by Barcelona retired citizens. The Barcelona council also keeps some farm animals (poultry).





The other example is in Tiana, a town close to Barcelona, where the town hall offers plots to retired citizens to grow vegetables.





It is a way keep the social cohesion between the older citizens and also to increase the biodiversity inside the cities, to keep cultural landscapes related with the agriculture and promote healthy activities.

dijous, 25 de juliol del 2013

Barcelona Allotment Gardens

I would like to share this picture of Can Soler Allotment gardens:



These gardens are managed by Barcelona Council (Catalonia - Spain). 
Barcelona city Council controls 12 spaces with Alloment gardens inside Barcelona municipality.

More information: Barcelona Allotment Gardens

dimecres, 5 de juny del 2013

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