Port: start-up of urban ecology wants to take the country's schools gardens

"A garden at my school" is the project that the Noocity urban ecology, a start-up of Porto, wants to implement in the largest possible number of schools in the country. The aim is to lead to efficient gardens schools and easy to install and tighten the relationship of children with nature, "establishing an emotional connection with the natural world that is the urban farmers of tomorrow".

According to Noocity, there are already many schools sensitive to pedagogical gardens, but by limitations of time, space, resources or lack of knowledge not yet deployed its draft horta. This start-up wants to minimise these obstacles and offer more efficient garden solutions and simple to install.

Through the project "a garden at my school", this company portuense 20% discount offers to schools which are interested in acquiring an efficient garden or other products in the amount of € 600. However, the Noocity also has a collective financing platform, where schools who are interested in acquiring a vegetable garden but do not have financial resources may apply for a fundraising campaign towards the community.

Create spaces for healthy cities

The Noocity appeared in 2013 by three friends â€" Joseph redhead, Pedro Monteiro and Samuel Roberts-, who met in Brazil, where they performed experiments on Agriculture and Permaculture.

Already in Portugal, with the objective of developing a garden on the terrace, the three friends created the first prototypes of systems of vertical and horizontal gardens gardens (special bags that allow systems to be cultivated and can be hung anywhere). When they realized that there was nothing similar in the market decided to create his own company.

In addition to the systems of vertical and horizontal gardens, this start-up is still in a prototype phase vermicompostor and a greenhouse. All products sold by Noocity are produced in Portugal.

The Noocity, in addition to the gardens for schools project, is also implementing the "We Grow Our Food Locally," a project that intends to include urban agriculture in the daily processes of hotels and restaurants. The first example is in Caffeine restaurant in Porto, where the Noocity installed a kitchen garden for herbs in the courtyard.

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