The Auróra Climate Garden is an eco-forestry project in the heart of the 8th district. In the last 5 years, we’ve created a food forest from a gravel parking lot which is self-sufficient and self-sustaining. With only city waste and volunteer work, our focus on soil building has evolved along with the succession of our space from natural wasteland to emerging forest.
From the start, compost was the dynamo of our garden system. It has turbo-charged growth of the plants and seeds we put in, and of the trees which volunteered from the mulch we put down. Most of our 180 trees germinated from seeds in the garden waste bags that we cover our soil with through winter. We offer local composting for kitchen, garden and other urban waste. Promoting nature-based solutions, we hope to inspire people to view small local interventions as a way to make their city climate proof.
Our project also endeavors to nurture and build a collective of city people who can take care of the environment. We organize tours and workshops for school groups, university students, NGOs and corporate teams. Our programs are most effective when we can present hands-on learning, so people feel they too have participated in our project, and in a solution.
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