terça-feira, 16 de setembro de 2014
Um projecto de Hortas Urbanas para o antigo Hospital Miguel Bombarda?
segunda-feira, 11 de junho de 2012
Inauguração do Jardim Alexandra Escudeiro na Escola Damião de Góis em Chelas
terça-feira, 8 de maio de 2012
sexta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2012
«Um novo papel para os jardins botânicos»

Os cinco jardins selecionados para integrar a segunda fase do projeto são os Bristol Zoo Gardens, o Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, os Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, o University of Leicester Botanic Garden e Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, e a sua diversidade em termos de localização, escala e projetos é considerada importante para o desenvolvimento da iniciativa. Durante os próximos seis meses, através de workshops e apoio personalizado, o BGCI irá monitorizar a implantação de projetos-piloto que reformem a relação dos jardins com as comunidades locais e reforcem o seu compromisso para com a sociedade. Numa lógica de aperfeiçoamento de um modelo aplicável globalmente, o BGCI desenvolverá um handbook que documente o projeto e possa ser consultado por outros jardins que desejem rever o seu papel social.
Os três jardins abrangidos na primeira fase do programa foram a Winterbourne House and Gardens, o National Botanic Garden of Wales, e o Ness Botanic Garden. O caso da Winterbourne House and Gardens é o de um jardim convidado a associar-se a este projeto com a condição de trabalhar com a comunidade islâmica local, um setor pouco envolvido com as questões ambientais. O que se pretendia era fomentar não só a educação ambiental dos participantes, mas também a integração destes na sociedade britânica. O National Botanic Garden of Wales, um esforço do governo galês para a investigação e para a conservação, tem revelado dificuldades em passar a mensagem à comunidade rural e envelhecida em que está inserido. A sua proposta de integração social, baseada num projeto artístico, foi entendida pelo BGCI como desfasada do programa e, depois de algumas iniciativas, o NBGW abandonou o projeto. Já no programa Engaging Secondary Schools, alunos de algumas das zonas mais pobres de Liverpool integraram atividades relacionadas com a agricultura, a ecologia e a conservação no Ness Botanic Garden. Esta experiência foi considerada pelos participantes como motivadora, atribuindo-lhes responsabilidades e contribuindo para a sua negligenciada educação ambiental.
Este projeto desempenha um importante papel na educação das comunidades para as práticas agrícolas sustentáveis, promovendo uma relação mais saudável e consciente da sociedade com o ambiente.
segunda-feira, 31 de outubro de 2011
LISBOA: Abriu primeiro parque hortícola
segunda-feira, 29 de agosto de 2011
Hortas Urbanas: «Hortas mais caras e com menos área na Quinta da Granja»
sexta-feira, 8 de julho de 2011
Ribeiro Telles contra urbanização na Caparica
terça-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2011
Morango, maracujá e groselha nas hortas do Museu do Traje
Espaço de hortas aberto à comunidade conquista cada vez mais adeptossegunda-feira, 29 de novembro de 2010
Parque hortícola urbano avança no Vale de Chelas
sábado, 14 de agosto de 2010
«Estacionamento ameaça liquidar horta popular»
sábado, 8 de maio de 2010
LaGuardia Corner Gardens em Nova Iorque
quarta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2009
EDIBLE and ELEGANT
Cabbages, chard, peas and pumpkins can bring as much variety to a garden as flowers can, says Hazel Sillversegunda-feira, 20 de julho de 2009
«Meanwhile, back in the city»
The Meanwhile Gardens, a little urban green space not far from where I live, are not Kensington Gardens (though they lie just within the Royal Borough), let alone the hanging gardens of Babylon or the gardens of the Summer Palace in Beijing, thoughtlessly destroyed by British troops during the Opium Wars. Nor are they the gardens of Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome in Xanadu. They are decidedly modest in scale, just a four-acre ribbon of trees, walks, borders, ponds and beds hugging the south side of the Grand Union Canal as it meanders from Paddington towards Kensal Green.All the same, they do what city gardens should do – they provide breathing space and greenery and surprising beauty in what was once a desperately poor zone and is still classified as a deprived ward. Children appreciate them; at one end there is a playhut and a skateboard park. For those requiring a quiet space for contemplation, there is a scented courtyard. The charity Mind in Kensington and Chelsea runs horticultural training schemes out of the gardens for people who have experienced mental health problems. The Meanwhile Gardens are rich in wild flowers and wildlife: the other day I heard blackcaps and chiffchaffs and willow warblers singing together in early summer concert.
domingo, 7 de junho de 2009
Lisboa vai ter mais e melhores hortas urbanas até 2011
quinta-feira, 30 de abril de 2009
Hortas Comunitárias: «Refuge from a painful past»
The Ugandan fled his home five years ago after his father was killed by a gang, who also attacked John and shot him in the leg. After arriving at Heathrow airport, John, then only 16, was abandoned by the guardian who was supposed to arrange a school and home for him. He had no family in the UK (his mother died 10 years earlier) and was mistrustful of people. Eventually he made contact with social services, who found him temporary accommodation. But he suffers from depression, aggravated by the uncertainty over his status, unable to work or claim the same benefits as refugees or British citizens. "It was hard being here; I thought of all these things I'd lost and I found it hard to cope."
But he says meeting fellow asylum seekers through the Room2Heal organisation, part of the Helen Bamber Foundation, which advises and supports refugees and victims of torture, has helped him: "It gives you a family feeling. There are things I can discuss with them that I couldn't with other people." Every Friday without fail John travels across London by bus from Crystal Palace to Islington's Culpeper community garden to tend the plot of land and, especially, to look after the small fir tree he planted in memory of his father.
Psychotherapist Mark Fish set up Room2Heal 18 months ago after working in northern Uganda, where he established a retreat for religious leaders. Alongside the gardening group, Fish also runs a group counselling session that allows the members, who are aged between 20 and 50, to share their problems. Fish says the idea for a plot of land in the garden was originally to provide a space for contemplation and relaxation but its significance has grown: "These people don't have homes. This bit of land is their own. One member told me proudly 'I'm a landlord'; when he said that, he looked radiant."
Culpeper, founded in 1982, has grown from a rubbish tip into an attractive site with ponds, rose pergolas and herb gardens. It is a serene sanctuary from the surrounding traffic and busy shopping area. Dependent on charitable grants for its funding, Culpeper is home to 50 plots tended by community groups such as Room2Heal, as well as children from a local primary school and nearby residents who do not have gardens. Looking after the patch is a communal effort carried out by two garden workers, a number of plot holders and the volunteers.
Community gardens have, in some form or other, existed since cities , although the movement gathered pace in Britain and the US at the end of the 19th century. Then areas were cultivated by local workers with the aim of providing free food and exercise. After the second world war, many gardens were built on, or became derelict sites.
Jeremy Iles, director of the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, to which Culpeper belongs, says such gardens are a good way of developing community cohesion: "They have an impact that is different to the services provided by local authorities . . . There's a social value far beyond just gardening."
Culpeper holds a number of activities for locals, including a pensioners' tea party, arts projects for children and Hallowe'en parties as well as plant sales. Fish observes that the plot helps members make connections with the community and shows locals that "asylum seekers are not the dark figures they're made out to be in the press".
Last year Room2Heal members built a path on their patch of garden to symbolise the journey they had been on. At first it was straight. But, after much discussion, they reset the paving stones in a wiggly line because it better represented their struggle. At the end of the path they plan to build a small bench and hope that people from neighbouring plots as well as visiting locals will sit in their patch.
Kate Bowen, a worker at Culpeper, believes Room2Heal is an asset to the garden: "They're friendly. . . they make an effort to be part of the community, especially with their offers of barbecued chicken and tea." John says he regularly gets horticultural tips from holders of neighbouring plots.
The number of community gardens has grown recently - membership of the federation has grown from 120 groups seven years ago to 360 now - which Iles attributes in part to the recognition of their social value. But it is also due to the growing interest in food miles, organic produce and healthier lifestyles.
Health is one of the reasons James, a 46-year-old Room2Heal member, who uses a walking stick after being injured in police detention in Kenya, likes to come to the garden. Working on the plot helps to keep him mobile - he does the planting jobs so he can kneel down. But the benefits are beyond physical: "I felt dead until I came into this group. If I feel down, it transforms me to come to the garden." in Financial Times, 26 de Abril de 2008
terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2009
Câmara de Coimbra aprova quatro novas hortas urbanas
segunda-feira, 20 de outubro de 2008
CML anuncia hortas citadinas e novos jardins para uma capital mais verde
domingo, 31 de agosto de 2008
TERRA À TERRA: um exemplo do Porto
HORTA NA ESCOLA: um exemplo do Porto
Já aderiram ao projecto 36 escolas da região do Grande Porto. A utilização do composto como fertilizante no cultivo de alimentos para consumo pessoal é uma maneira simples e directa de nos ligar com a terra e ao mesmo tempo contribui para a diminuição de resíduos orgânicos a enviar para tratamento, que correspondem a 40% do nosso saco do lixo doméstico. Para mais informações sobre o projecto visite: http://www.hortadaformiga.com/
sábado, 30 de agosto de 2008
HORTA À PORTA: um exemplo do Porto
O projecto Horta à Porta surgiu em Julho de 2003 devido à necessidade de articular a disponibilidade de várias entidades numa rede que viabilizasse uma estratégia para a Região do Grande Porto no domínio da Compostagem Caseira, na criação de Hortas e na promoção da Agricultura Biológica.
Horta de Rates - 10 Talhões