Abstract
As cities and city dwellers in developed countries have shown increasing interest in agriculture, collective gardens (defined as opposed to individual back-yard gardens) have multiplied. Their increase in the city of Montpellier reflects both a demand among citizens and the support of the municipality, and in this article we address the bridge they create between city and agriculture. Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted in different municipal collective gardens to investigate the gardeners’ motivations, their agricultural practices, and their views on gardening and farming. We identified an interest in reconnecting with farming even when food production is not a priority, and our results suggest that this expansion of cultivation promoted by city dwellers supports a new link between cities and agriculture that could be significant in the construction of a sustainable and fertile city.
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