The Pelgu allotment garden construction and follow-up activities in urban gardening
Tallinn Urban Environment and Public Works Department ·Estonia
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Urban gardening is popular in the city of Tallinn. The project aims to expand the possibilities of bigger gardening slots. Currently, in Tallinn, there are community gardens, but they can only give out small 1mx1m boxes to the citizens. Creating the first allotment garden is widening possibilities for more people to start urban gardening and choose between the slots they desire. NGO Pelguaed is an active community garden; they have a long waiting list for citizens to join the community garden. Interreg Central Baltic project <a href="https://bgreen-project.eu/">B.Green</a> is creating green infrastructure solutions that support cities in reaching climate change adaptation and mitigation goals. One of the pilots focuses on developing at <a href="https://www.putukavail.ee/?lang=en">Pollinator Highway</a> Tallinn's first allotment garden. We have prepared the landscape architecture design and modelling the allotment garden implementation with service design. This project is the next step to building the garden and supporting the local community and general city gardening in Tallinn City. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The garden with a modern design has created even better opportunities for city residents to grow food, spend free time, and organize community events and outdoor lessons for residents and anyone interested. The need to implement the project is desires to find a comprehensive pilot solution with a modern design, the best functionality, compositionally balanced, sustainable development, which would support community gardening activities and whose experience could be transferred to other parts of Tallinn and overall Estonia.</span></span></p> <p>Target groups: <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">Põhja-Tallinn district citizens, urban gardening enthusiasts all over the city and people who are interested in joining the gardening community but have not done it yet. Also, other municipalities can take over and use the allotment garden model. </span></span></p>