Gyeonggi Province to Support Village Garden Projects with 200-300 Million Won Per Site

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Gyeonggi Province is recruiting target sites for the '2024 Gyeonggi Province Village Garden Project.'

The 'Gyeonggi Province Village Garden Project' is an initiative that promotes the spread of garden culture by creating gardens using empty spaces within villages and operating various garden education programs.

This year, recruitment will be conducted in two categories: 'Citizen-Led Village Gardens' and 'Public-Type Village Gardens - Everyone's Garden.'

'Citizen-Led Village Gardens' is a category where communities of 10 or more people take the lead in creating village gardens of 500 square meters or larger on vacant lots and unused land within villages.

Each site will receive approximately 200 million won in support for garden creation and maintenance, as well as gardening programs.

'Public-Type Village Gardens - Everyone's Garden' is a category where municipalities directly create public-type gardens of 2,000 square meters or larger that can serve as hubs for village gardens, with approximately 300 million won allocated per garden project.

Citizen-led village gardens must be applied for by August 4 through the relevant city or county garden department, while Everyone's Gardens should be applied for directly to the province by interested municipalities by August 11.

Target sites include unused land, vacant land, and leftover spaces within villages where gardens can be created. Various types of gardens can be developed to match site characteristics and usage purposes, such as urban-type, rural-type, multi-family housing-type, tourism resource-type, children's gardens, and healing gardens.

Gyeonggi Province will conduct document and site reviews to comprehensively evaluate the capacity of implementing organizations, appropriateness of project sites, effectiveness, and sustainability, with final project sites expected to be confirmed in September to October.

Final confirmed project sites are expected to begin full-scale implementation starting next year.

For more information, refer to the Gyeonggi Province website (gg.go.kr) notices and announcements section or contact the garden departments of the province and each city and county.