How does the collaboration with the city work?
Hi @Kipos3, welcome to Edgeryders. I’m a colleague of Natalia and Pavlos whom you probably know already, based in Romania. Thanks for sharing your project, I’m a fan of community gardening ever since I’ve been to Tbilisi in Georgia and we met a group called Guerilla Gardening (meet @Nick_Davitashvili one of their leaders here), who were camped in a public park but also did a lot of school activities to teach kids how to plant. See this video starting from 50’:
But their relationship with the local authorities is nowhere near as good as yours. You can get some of the hints from their name :) they are trying to get the pedestrian areas secure from cars by setting up planting flowers and trees in second hand tires on the sidewalks. They get fined because officially it’s considered littering and throwing garbage around. I understand this is not them acting offensively, but solving problems that authorities won’t deal with.
Curious: how did Kipos3 turn administration into an ally?