The HUB project has been developed as a series of steps that can happen over time as funding becomes available. A funding application has been made for Community Gardens as a first step in the proposal.

What are Community Gardens?

“Community Gardens” are plots of land gardened essentially by the local community. Generally, they tend to be run by an independent non-profit organisation (usually funded by public money). Some gardens are grown collectively, with everyone working together; others are split into clearly divided plots, each managed by a different gardener (or group or family). Community Gardens have many benefits for individuals and the local community as a whole:
They provide a leisure activity for families, for children and adolescents, a place to communicate and learn about nature and growing food,
For working people relaxation from the stress of work,
For the unemployed the feeling of being useful and not excluded as well as a supply of fresh vegetables at minimum cost;
For immigrant families a possibility of communication and better integration in their host country;
For disabled persons a place enabling them to participate in social life, to establish contacts and overcome loneliness;
For senior citizens a place of communication with persons having the same interests as well as an opportunity of self-fulfillment during the period of retirement. (Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux)