Edible Garden
The Edible Garden is a place to meet and learn good practices. It is an ecological garden cultivated by the university community and city residents. We plant and sow vegetables, fruits and herbs. By making this space available to others, we want to provide the opportunity to grow plants, influence eating habits, and strengthen the awareness of connection with the surrounding ecosystem. By organizing activities in the garden, we raise important topics related to sustainable development and adaptation to climate change. Students and residents of Toruń gain knowledge here in the field of: food sovereignty, food production in cities, permaculture, ecological gardening, agroecology, rational management of natural resources.
The garden also serves a recreational function, contributing to the integration of residents and students from Poland and abroad. The garden is a place open to cooperation with other universities that implement similar initiatives, as well as organizations operating in the city and university. Our next goal is to organize cultural events, which contribute to creating a community. We would like it to be an inspiration and a point of reference for other, similar initiatives in Toruń. Observing and drawing inspiration from the ideas that are developing on university campuses around the world, we know that such places are important and necessary.
The garden is open to the public. The work of volunteer gardeners takes place 2-3 times a week at specific hours and is coordinated by the city gardener, Paulina Jeziorek.
The Edible Garden functions as a physical garden space in the summer season. In the winter season, it conducts educational, lecture and workshop activities. The Edible Garden is not only flowerbeds, but also an intellectual field where everything that can be nutritious for our interior sprouts, grows, bears fruit, ferments and decomposes.
Lectures and workshops are addressed to the university community, high school students and residents of Toruń and the surrounding area. Lectures and workshops are open to the public and free of charge. Some of them require prior reservations. The events take place periodically in the rooms of the Copernican Integration Center and concern topics around which the KOI Edible Garden community garden initiative revolves: sustainable development, urban gardening, food sovereignty, local supply chains, garden, campus and city ecosystem, experiential education, body work and senses.
We encourage you to follow the news and planned events of the Edible Garden on Facebook
E-mail: jadalnyogrodkoi@umk.pl; paulina.jeziorek@umk.pl
Fot. Idalia Tuleja, Paulina Jeziorek, Andrzej Romański
