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A vegetable garden to redevelop the park

The “Garden of the Future” collaboration agreement aims to organize, plan and carry out a series of social and cultural activities, in order to contribute to the improvement of the Nervesa Park and encourage normal and correct use of the park by citizens.
Italia Nostra has made itself available, having acquired specific expertise in the creation and management of urban gardens and horticulture courses, to carry out an activity aimed at training volunteer horticulturists for the creation and care of a small nucleus of urban gardens within of the gardens of via Nervesa. 
Unilever Italia Mkt. Operations Srl has received the support of Italia Nostra, making itself available, as part of the “Good Food Movement” project, to financially support the activities to create a vegetable garden of high aesthetic quality which involve the training of a group of gardeners who will can manage collectively. The garden can thus be a means of acquiring botanical knowledge, promoting sociality linked to a common passion and bringing benefits to both the body and the mind of the participants in horticultural activities, spreading greater culture and knowledge towards the issues of environmental sustainability and of conscious nutrition, with the desirable possibility that a group of citizens will be formed to continue the monitoring and cultivation activity.
 

Objectives of the pact

The pact provides for the implementation of various activities for the care of an educational garden, the development of civic sense and education in the care of common goods, as well as a culture in favor of environmental sustainability and conscious eating. For the realization of the project, a participatory and involvement process of the inhabitants and organizations of the neighborhood will be activated and managed, through which it is intended: 

• redevelop a city area through a collective project dedicated to the community that can be exploited and made available to citizens by providing educational and recreational activities on nutrition and sustainability
• raise awareness about the culture of good food and knowledge of the 50 Future Foods with the aim of informing and encouraging people to eat a varied diet and a more conscious diet, which has a positive impact on the planet and their well-being, online with the programmatic forecasts of the Food Policy supported by the Municipality of Milan
• expand the opportunities for active participation of the inhabitants in the life of the neighborhood
• contribute to and encourage education on legality and urban coexistence
• promote a new and stronger sense of belonging to the territory and in particular to the neighbourhood
• stimulate greater responsibility among citizens towards the care of common goods (also understood as a positive form of social protection of the safety of the area)
• spread greater culture and knowledge towards the issues of environmental sustainability and management of urban greenery, through a training process aimed at the inhabitants of the neighborhood
• create and encourage opportunities for participation, aggregation and social relationships among the inhabitants of the neighborhood

Signatories

• Italia Nostra 
• Unilever Italia Mkt. Operations Srl