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Newsletter n. 6 - May 2020
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May is a rich and interesting month for our vegetable garden: temperatures are now stable and in most gardens there is no longer a risk of late frosts. The crops planted in spring take on consistency and the garden becomes green and flourishing. May is also a month of sowing and especially of transplants, so you have to roll up your sleeves before the heat of summer arrives to set up a vegetable garden that can produce in the following months. https://www.ortodacoltivare.it/calendario/maggio-lavori.html ...This would be the ideal situation. However, as it is sadly known to all of us, spring 2020 is marked by the COVID-19 pandemic not only in Italy, not only in the EU but all over the world. So, what happens in our urban gardens? How can we ensure their survival during the pandemic? What is happening in our cities? In this newsletter we will try to show you some of the initiatives and provisions that have been put in place in recent weeks both by citizens and by local authorities... while we hope for a slightly more serene summer for all our gardeners! |
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How do RU:RBAN cities face COVID-19?
Gardeners during COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked and overturned the lives of the entire globe, this is a certainty… without a doubt. The virus has affected countries on the same continent unequally, but each and one of them is fighting it. How are countries reacting, what measures are they taking, what are the effects on society? The answer to these questions has been on our every-day news for the last three months: with enormous difficulties, restrictions on our most inalienable freedoms and, above all, indescribable pain and loss...
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A new role for urban gardens in our cities?Can urban gardens be developed as meeting points for modern local communities, or are we " light-years away" from such novelty in terms of urban development practices? An answer to this question could be found in RU:RBAN: urban agriculture, nowadays in the shape of urban gardens managed by citizens, is stepping away from being seen only as the practice of growing vegetables within the municipal territory of our cities...
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ULG Coordinators of all seven RU:RBAN cities get together... online! ULG Coordinators and Project’s experts meet online The COVID-19 pandemic the world is presently facing has changed most working methods in every professional sector. Traditional meetings seem to be something of the past and now we “meet” online, just as the ULG Coordinators of the RU:RBAN network did on 5th May to discuss the points of a pretty dense agenda: the calendar of each city’s next ULG meetings and the topics of their discussions, how the drafting of their regulations is progressing...
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From Rome to Barranquilla…sharing knowledge on urban agriculture Representatives from Rome, Barranquilla, A Coruña and IUC Programme An interesting initiative is launched by ANCI Lazio, the Association of the 376 Municipalities of the Lazio Region (Italy), as part of the last IUC (International Urban Cooperation program) Call, to start a process of cooperation with the Colombian cities of Barranquilla and Soledad in the context of immigrants integration, specifically Venezuelans. RURBAN was taken as an example of the tools for integrating immigrants into local communities. Representatives of Rome’s Urban Gardens Office, key stakeholders and ULG (Urbact Local Group) members of Rome and A Coruña met online on the 8th May 2020 with the staff of the Colombian City Administration of Barranquilla...
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Loures brings children closer to agriculture and environment Children from Loures at the workshop The City Council of Loures organised in January and February, when covid-19 was still something far away from our “reality”, a series of workshops in two of the RU:RBAN pilots, the Quinta do Conventinho and the Petrogal urban gardens, aimed at bringing children closer to good environmental practices.
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Rome’s ULG meeting at times of COVID-19If anyone had told me, just a few weeks ago, that today I would find myself writing this article confined within the four walls of my home I probably would have burst out laughing…but there is little to laugh about. We are facing one of the worst health emergencies in the last 100 years, an unprecedented situation which no one could have foreseen when welcoming the new year, but here we are. Images of scenes of despair, pain and disbelief flow in front of us and, at the same time, of great humanity and solidarity. What is emerging of all this is...
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Technology finds its way in the membership cards of urban vegetable gardens in Rome New membership card of Parco Ort9 urban garden in Rome From April 23rd, 2020, the members of the Vivere in ... Onlus Association of the Parco Ort9 urban garden in Rome have access to their new membership cards. Why these new cards? The old ones, in A4 paper format, were not practical and complex to manage both for the members and for the Association. The management decided...
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