Abstract
This paper aims to make clear the relationship between the aspect of present activities and problems of 'open garden' activities which have become diverse in these years by hearing to all open garden groups in Hyogo Prefecture, in order to search for effective system supporting these activities. As the results, it was observed that there are so many types of open garden activities, purpose and problems. Also it was observed that there was relationship between the purpose and the position of the field, and according to the purpose of these activities, the contents of the activities changed, and there is some relationship between the problems of each open garden group and the organization structure of open garden activity management and the number of gardens in each group.