Appearing in the 1970s in North America, solidarity gardens or vegetable gardens strengthen social ties in an exchange of knowledge and know-how, but also provide access to healthy food for the most modest households. More and more cities are developing solidarity vegetable gardens by making plots of land available to associations and neighborhood residents. Thus in Nantes, the Nourishing Landscapes operation has a total area of 5,500 m² spread over 23 sites in 11 different districts. This allowed a harvest of 22 tons of fresh vegetables in 2020, distributed to 2,500 households in precariousness.
Social bond, exchange of knowledge, pleasure of gardening and reaping the fruit of common efforts, then pleasure of consumption. All this while using hitherto unused plots of land which contribute to biodiversity. What good assets for solidarity vegetable gardens!