First of all, it was the physical garden for nature based education that was the main goal. Our goal has been to build a community with a physical place. This place has a sense of belonging and sharing and is interconnected with other communities internationally. We know how libraries work, sharing and reusing, and by moving this thinking to a shared garden with herbs and cale has been perceived as a new and interesting beginning of green innovation. Also making this an inclusive and educational place both mentally and physically. Empowering people through capacity building and being able to offer higher quality education. We wanted the project to be green and sustainable. In terms of the educational program, the process and the partners and the community members also helped us to create the program, based on our good practices. Knowledge and inspiration from the study visits, sharing of our ideas gave us the opportunity to learn from each other and create a program based on these inputs. Building this nature based educational community also gave us the knowledge to be able to be part of bigger projects after this.
The project had three partners that already worked well together in communication online. We were three different organisations that have learned a lot from each other in reaching the same goal product - a community garden for everyone to use in our local communities. We believe our divercities has made the project stronger and helped us reach a larger audience. The partners were new in the Erasmus+ program, and a small scale project like this gave us a good start in learning about the opportunities in the program. We hope that in the future we will be able to join in more projects and/or help others to get the same opportunities that are possible in Erasmus+. We felt that the sharing economy concept was perfect for this kind of initiative, and the focus has demonstrated that people are interested in environmental and sustainable projects. To support it, events, educational materials, and more have been made available during the time of the project.