cowtreemoon← back to the planet
Community movement

Hortas Cariocas (Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro)

HQ 🇧🇷 Brazil · 1 project tracked

website ↗

Ways to help

Get involved

Hortas Cariocas

Food & Farming

🇧🇷 Brazil

Rio de Janeiro's city government pays residents to grow food on vacant lots and school grounds, turning idle urban land into tons of fresh produce for vulnerable communities.

56gardensCommunity & school garden units
77tonsFood produced in 2023
276peoplePeople employed via program stipends
Something here out of date? →

We research and write every entry ourselves, so there’s no self-serve editing — but corrections from people who know Hortas Cariocas (Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro) first-hand are the best ones we get.

A public page or report we can cite. Without one we usually can’t publish a change.