Contact

Office International
du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux a. s. b. l.

20, Rue de Bragance
L-1255 LUXEMBOURG

Tel.: 00352/453231
Fax: 00352/453412
E-Mail:
office-international
Homepage:
jardins-familiaux.org

 
  

 



What do we offer?

1) Leisure gardens offer the community:
- a better quality of urban life through the reduction of noise, the binding of dust, the establishment of green areas and more open spaces;
- The conservation of biotopes and species, the creation of linked biotopes.

2) Leisure gardens offer families:
- a gardening hobby and an economic growing of healthy vegetables;
- the personal experience of sowing, growing, cultivating and harvesting healthy vegetables;
- a counterweight to life in high-rise towers and the concrete jungle;
- the furtherance of harmony and fellowship;
- a meaningful leisure activity;
- direct contact with Nature.

3) Leisure gardens offer children and young people:
- compensation for often non-existent playgrounds;
- a place to play and communicate;
- a place to discover Nature and its wonders;
- practical lessons in biology.

4) Leisure gardens offer working people:
- relaxation through a healthy activity from the stress of work;
- an ideal alternative to the working day.

5) Leisure gardens offer the unemployed:
- the feeling of being useful and not excluded;
- a means to combat forced idleness;
- a supply of fresh vegetables at minimum cost.

6) Leisure gardens offer immigrant families:
- a possibility of communication and better integration in their host country.

7) Leisure gardens offer disabled persons:
- a place allowing them to participate in club life, establish contacts and overcome loneliness;
- the experience of sowing and planting, growing, ripening and harvesting.

8) Leisure gardens offer senior citizens:
- a place of communication and rest through contacts with persons having the same interests;
- contacts that have grown over years;
- an opportunity of self-fulfilment and an activity in one's own garden during the period of retirement.