Samenvatting

This thesis report has been commissioned by the Water Authority Limburg. The report provides an analysis of the different potential benefits of communal forest gardens implemented in urban environments in the Netherlands, as well as an evaluation on the requirements and conditions necessary to successfully create urban communal forest gardens. While answering this research question the thesis additionally aimed to work towards a handbook containing necessary step for active citizens who aspire to establish a forest garden in their own community. To answer the research question both an extensive amount of literature is consulted, and additionally experts, policymakers and nine -mostly urban- forest garden practitioners have been visited and interviewed all across the Netherlands.