SR Previous years have raised numerous questions about how stressful the urban environment is and what we can do to make it healthier and make life in it be of better quality. Cities are becoming more populated, and the risks of many negative impacts of this kind of environment are increasing. A large number of people are leaving urban areas, but not everyone is able to afford to move to a healthier environment. What, then, can we do to make urban life at least a little closer to the laws of nature and sustainability? Is it possible to live healthier in an urban environment and produce food? How different is this production from conventional production and how creative can we be on the way to establishing green communities? All these questions have an answer in the "green philosophy" that teaches us to listen to nature, because it can provide much more than we can imagine.
With the desire to apply this philosophy and make our environment healthier, we start the gardening season with a lecture and workshop "Home Garden". At the introductory online lecture on Wednesday, April 27, the basic steps in starting a small home garden will be presented by Ana Svilar, an environmental engineer. The live workshop on May 7 will provide participants with additional practical knowledge for setting up a small home garden with edible species. The condition for attending the live workshop is registration via the form and attendance at the online lecture.
Ana Svilar, an activist and advocate of the green environment, completed her undergraduate and master's studies at the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade, where she earned the title of Environmental Engineer. She continued her professional training at the same faculty, in postgraduate studies in the field of strategic planning of Aquaculture. Since 2008, she has worked in companies, mainly in the position of development manager, and in 2014 she became a teacher at the Secondary Agricultural School in Valjevo. Since 2016, he has been providing professional support and assistance in the process of preparing documentation for development projects in the fields of agriculture and environmental protection.
Through its activities, Ekonaut continues to advocate the formation of a system of urban garden communities, which is recognized in many cities as one of the tools for development and sustainable management of urban spaces, but also as a means to provide food sources at the local level and achieve microclimatic, social and economic benefits. Urban garden communities are open areas where individuals or groups grow plants of their choice. They exist in most European cities and have numerous socially useful purposes, such as physical and social rehabilitation, opportunities for work and employment of economically endangered sections of the population, animation of elderly citizens and enabling all generations to pursue healthy hobbies in horticulture, gardening and vegetables. Such places have both historical and cultural value and often become popular picnic areas with additional facilities and an accessible source of healthy food.
You can see what the previous workshops and lectures organized by Ekonaut within the project "Initiative for Urban Garden Communities" on the topic of establishing ornamental and edible small gardens looked like on our YouTube channel below:
The project "Initiative for urban garden communities" is implemented within the project of the Belgrade Open School "Green Incubator", with the financial support of the European Union and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The content of this page does not necessarily reflect the views of donors or the Belgrade Open School, and "Ekonaut" is solely responsible for it.
The activities of the "Initiative for Urban Garden Communities" were supported by the Open Society Foundation and the creative hub Nova Iskra.
