The eco-gardens can be counted among Powerful learning Environment as their Problem-based learning, complete numerous challenging, and meaningful tasks. Activities in the eco-gardens encompassed educational objectives, from simple skills training in organic farming practice to cultivation. In addition, there are many worldwide examples of the positive effects of green, naturefriendly agricultural initiatives that youth can develop after these eco-garden training. Eco-gardens built together with youth and local community members provide health, economic, educational, social, and environmental benefits to participants and the community at large. It generates a social gathering place for the community and encourages people to share intergenerational knowledge.

It is important to the neighbourhood since it creates strong ties between neighbours fighting against the lack of social cohesion. Gardening can be seen as one of the most powerful tools for building communities, teaching participative and active citizenship, fostering creativity, developing entrepreneurial skills, and taking one of the most basic needs - food supply - in our own hands. Gardening can be a perfect tool for non-formal education. It gives the opportunity to explore healthy lifestyle choices, learn about the origins of food, and understand natural processes. Moreover, gardening is a means to empower young people, to help them acquire practical skills for their own life and the labor market.

THE AIM:

To create experiential learning opportunities for rural/urban youth to cultivate self–reliance, job skills, and entrepreneurial aptitude by cultivating an eco-garden.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Develop an innovative digital practical guidebook on eco-gardening for youth.

2. Create practical workshops for participants to learn to work together as a team, improve/develop green, entrepreneurship skills, and the value of community engagement as well as eating healthy foods.

3. Introduce participants to basic horticulture techniques, botany, nutrition, and sustainable land stewardship through experiential activities.

ACTIVITIES:

1. Partners meetings virtually and live in Lithuania.

2. Development of innovative digital practical guide book on eco-gardening for youth.

   
   

3. Creating workshops for youth.

   
   

4. Piloting and improving created workshops for youth.

   
   

5. Translation and edition of the created materials and transforming them into attractive output.

   
   

6. Training for youth in Turkey on basic horticulture techniques, botany, nutrition, and sustainable land stewardship through experiential activities.

OUTCOMES:

• developed one innovative digital practical guidebook on eco-gardening for youth;

• created practical workshops for youth to learn to work together as a team, improve/develop entrepreneurship skills, and the value of community engagement as well as eating healthy foods;

• organized international training on basic horticulture techniques, botany, nutrition, and sustainable land stewardship through experiential activities.

Intellectual Output:

Guidebook:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19gvKYGFjpVdmd_6BPEMM3bspVps94sIU?usp=sharing

Workshops: