page_title: Allotment (gardening)
section_title: Finland
hierarchical_section_title: Allotment (gardening) / Around the world / Finland
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Vallilan siirtolapuutarha Helsingissä. Taustalla mäen päällä näkyy Kumpulan kampuksen rakennuksia. English: Vallila allotment gardens in Helsinki, Finland. Buildings of Kumpula campus are visible in the background.
context_page_description: An allotment garden, often called simply an allotment, or in North America, a community garden, is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants. Such plots are formed by subdividing a piece of land into a few or up to several hundred land parcels that are assigned to individuals or families. Such parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people. In countries that do not use the term "allotment", a "community garden" may refer to individual small garden plots as well as to a single, large piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people. The term "victory garden" is also still sometimes used, especially when a community garden dates back to the First or Second World War.
  The individual size of a parcel typically suits the needs of a family, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter, and sometimes a hut for seasonal or weekend accommodation.
context_section_description: The Federation of Finnish Allotment Gardens is a non-profit organization that supports allotment gardeners and connects them to allotments and each other. The first allotment garden was established 1916 in Tampere, and today there are about 30 allotment associations all around Finland made up of roughly 3700 allotmenteers.
caption: Allotment gardens in Vallila, only 2–3 km from central Helsinki. Each allotment contains a summer-cottage-type building.
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