On June 24, the Szombathely local team hosted a community workshop at the Százhold Park, where residents and professionals discussed how to best take care of the city park together. The event, held as part of the JUSTNature project, aimed to launch the development of a local maintenance community: because a park is only truly valuable if we take care of it.
During the workshop, there was talk of volunteer garden care groups and public “adoptions”, where certain parts of the park would be regularly maintained by locals. Some people pointed out that even pointing to someone "Hey, don't throw this here" is important and can make a change — after all, community responsibility is built on small things.
Among the participants were locals who use the park on a daily basis (joggers, parents with small children, dog walkers), but also those who came with a professional perspective, as planners or city decision-makers. The goal was common: to find maintenance models where the city and residents work alongside each other, not independently of each other.
