Green Gardening Project Set Up in Tbilisi

A new environment-initiative, Green Tbilisi, hopes to create more green spaces in the city by planting and maintaining gardens in unused spaces. Founded last week by members of the Tbilisi community, the project is already gaining traction.

In addition to brightening up the city with plants, the project participants hope to reduce dust in Tbilisi. There are many areas along sidewalks and in small parks that consist of soil with no plants. Planting these areas will help prevent this soil from polluting the air.

Although it was founded just a week ago, Green Tbilisi already has support from Tbilisi City Hall, who has said it will help plant the first pilot space.

“We are looking into the most suitable options and at the same time what would be most aesthetically pleasing for the arrangement of garden spaces. We're also thinking about the spaces themselves, which would be run by our group leaders in the first instance. We will start creating the first gardens at the end of February.” Green Tbilisi representatives told GEORGIA TODAY.

The project took its inspiration from a similar project in Paris that was launched in 2015. The city government allowed citizens to submit proposals online to develop urban gardens on unused public land around the city.

Green Tbilisi has already gained a lot of interest. Even residents in other cities such as Rustavi and Mtskheta are interested in participating. People interested in participating in the project can fill in a contact form on the Green Tbilisi Facebook page here.

by Amy Jones 
Photo source: Green Tbilisi's Facebook Page