One of the other activities of the Office is the organisation, jointly with the 'Union of Gardeners' of the yearly competition 'Gardener of the year' as an effort to promote technological innovation and 'rational' land use. They refer to police control and health care services, amongst others. One must consider that one garden area alone, 'Trubnikov the Boron' in Tosno, houses 50,000 summer residents, while in the nearby 'Danube' garden area, almost 100 thousand gardeners are active during summer weekends. Another key problem is the marketing of the produce. The businessmen from St Petersburg only come irregularly and transport is costly.
Theft is also a major problem in the gardening areas.
It has been proposed that police from St Petersburg helps the local police to patrol the gardening complexes. The opportunities for urban agriculture in St Petersburg are many. A group of enthusiastic people decided to establish this Club, as an effort to make the city more natural and ecological. Now the Club focusses on the creation of better marketing conditions for small urban and peri-urban farms and promotes urban agriculture as an integral part of the urban productive system. Roof top gardening.