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Show Gardens

Explore gardens from around the globe through the Show Gardens series. Often containing different legume varieties, these gardens offer an insight into cultivation approaches in different parts of the world as well as the chance to meet the people involved.

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Pluk!CSA

Pluk!CSA is a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm from the Netherlands. It was initiated in 2017 to  provide urban dwellers with healthy organic food. The CSA model is a simple alternative to the current broken industrial food system, and a move towards local food production. 

SoNeBuTu

SoNeBuTu (SolidariteitsNetwerk BuurtTuinen) is a solidarity network of community gardens in the Netherlands. Together they grow and share sustainable food to counteract social isolation and dependency of the industrial food system. The network is characterized by values of care and solidarity.

Lumineuses 

Nicolas Carton is an agronomist and pulse ambassador. Based on his experience as an academic researcher and as a crop advisor he started the initiative Lumineuses to search for the locally best varieties of legumes and to process them through delicious recipes.

GPDA

Amanuel works at the Gardulla People Development Association in southern Ethiopia, and he is a partner of the Global Bean project. GPDA is implementing “agroforestry for sustainable development of people and nature” and supports small-scale farmers in soil and water conservation, farm yield productivity and rehabilitation of degraded lands.

Alvelal Association

Dani is a Spanish farmer, with a 40-acre chickpea production farm in María. Legume cultivation in this region of the North of the Almería has its challenges, due to the dry and extreme climate.

Tiny Farms

A growing network of digitally connected microfarms, Tiny Farms grows organic regional vegetables for cities.

Seed Savers Kenya

Seed savers Network(SSN) is a national membership based farmers organization. SSN works at grassroots level with a mission to conserve agrobiodiversity by strengthening communities seed systems for improved food and nutritional security

Jean Paul’s garden

Jean Paul has created his cleaning and landscaping company some years ago and is enthusiastic home gardener who appreciates to grow and cook legumes such as chickpea, bean and lentils.

Global Field India

Edible Routes is one of India’s largest organic farming organisations. At Edible Routes, we are moving towards creating a world of conscious and healthy people who care for themselves and the earth.

Food Council Marburg

Tanja Neuschild, working for the Food council Marburg, wants to raise the attention of the local community to the huge diversity of legumes that can grow in the village. This bean show garden is located in Wehrda, a district of the German city of Maburg.

Institute for agriculture

The LTZ is the state institute for agriculture in Baden-Württemberg. In 2012, the state government of Baden-Württemberg started its protein initiative (Eiweißinitiative), in which LTZ is responsible for grain legumes. Therefore, various trials - on beans, chickpeas, and peanuts - are underway in LTZ’s trial fields.

Greek Seed Association

Nikos Dompazis cultivates traditional varieties of vegetables and legumes in Northern Greece (Komotini) in a garden of approx. 700 m2, since 1996.