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During her trip to Lithuania in June Lucy Kazickas visited Antakalnis Urban Garden. It is a great example of community work. Lucy's daughter Annalina participated in urban gardening community work in South Africa and started questioning if similar projects exist in Lithuania, which led her to Antakalnis Urban Garden.
Urban community gardening is becoming more and more popular in the cities because it builds communities, takes care of neglected areas, teaches children where vegetables come from, provides opportunity to grow your own food, encourages to share seeds and crops with the neighbors and shortens food's path from the farm to the plate. Antakalnis Urban Garden operates by the following standards - we grow food, take care of it together and share the crops. Antakalnis Urban Garden is an open community welcoming all who want to participate.
Initiated by Annalina Kazickas, the Kazickas Family Foundation supports Antakalnis Urban Garden. In 2016 KFF funds allowed them to organize Antaklanis school students' educational programs. They learned how to grow seedlings, transfer and plant them in the garden, in the fall participated in their annual harvest festival. In 2019 an automatic watering system at the Vilnius Urban Garden has been installed thanks to the KFF grant.
Antakalnis Garden member Goda Sosnovskiene met with Lucy, told her about community's work, future plans, showed her the gardens, the greenhouse and almost ready to be picked crops at Sapiegos park.
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