EU Green - Piloting Activity – Youth Workers & Young People

🌿 Nature as a classroom – Learning straight from life!

The third activity within the EU GREEN – Urban Gardens for Sustainable Communities project was a real experience! Together with youth workers and young people, we explored Module 3 (Urban Gardens as Botanical Conservation Spaces) and Module 4 (Urban Cultivation Techniques and Practices) – not in a classroom, but in a real urban garden. 🌱

📍The location was special: the garden surrounding the monastery in Lesnovo – created and maintained voluntarily by local worshippers. Our host was a passionate volunteer who has cared for this garden for over 20 years, nurturing trees that are as old as 800 years! 🌳

👀 Participants had the chance to:
• Learn about plant species suitable for urban gardening
• Discover how to maintain different plants in Macedonian climate conditions
• Hear a heartfelt story of voluntary dedication, love for the land, and nature as cultural heritage

🔎 The session was practical, inspiring, and educational – perfectly complementing the theory and bringing to life the core of sustainable gardening.