Resilience Gardens

Introduction

These overlap with victory gardens in the idea that they are meant to help provide for people even during times of hardship.

Victory gardens were created and maintained during wartime, while large amounts of food were being sent to frontlines for hungry soldiers, often being blown up along the way. Maintaining a victory garden at home helped ensure enough food and luxuries such as berries even when farmed food became more scarce.

Similarly resilience gardens are springing up around the world in response to climate change, political and market instability, even pandemics are making it harder for families to make ends meet.


Community Gardens

Resilience gardens can be a simple home project on a balcony or back yard, but increasingly communities and organizations are coming together to provide food via resilience gardens.

Features

Depending on where you live and what you want to grow, a resilience garden can be very simple or include many things.

Waffle Gardens

These have been used around the world in hot, arid regions. They are composed of earthy walls, designed to capture even small amounts of water, keeping it right where it needs to be, around the roots of the plants inside.

Composting

Considerations

Apps & Tools

Europe

UK

Guides & Resources 

Bee-Friendly Gardening

How-To: Seed Bombs

Oceana

Australia

Maps

International

Europe

UK

Organizations

North America

Canada

Grants & Funding

Europe

UK

National award schemes There are a number of key organisations offering grants and advice to community based projects e.g. 

North America

Mexico

USA

Oceana

Australia

Western Australia