The forest garden concept is not well established in Sweden but finds its way in the private sphere and at municipality levels. Projects to develop forest gardens can be developed and organized in different ways and can be integrated with the municipality on different levels. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate which successfactors and challenges are present when creating a forest garden on land owned by the municipality. To answer the main question of the thesis with a broad geographical extent, forest gardens in Malmo, Lund, Gothenburg and Stockholm have been investigated. A forest garden is usually described as an edible ecosystem, a defined area with a polyculture of plants of different species that is evolving and growing together. The concept uses the method of mimicking nature and its ecosystem to reunite mankind with the natural world. This thesis shows that the challenges for community forest garden projects created by citizens on land owned by the municipality are long-term engagement, responsibility issues, lack of organization, vandalism and the structure of the project. To identify, catch and maintain the engagement of the core group, members and surrounding community is vital. Other successfactors are good organization and structure, a clear vision with corresponding values, shared responsibility between the people in the group, sustainable relationships with the local community and the spreading of knowledge in the core group as well as to the public.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-51170 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Clase, Melker |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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