Welcome to urban gardening!

The herb garden on the window sill, a tomato bush on the balcony — residents of a big city always know how to help themselves when it comes to making their lives a little greener. Another route is taken in the metropolis of Berlin with so-called Bürgergärten or neighborhood gardens. Urban gardening means various projects throughout the city that are not only particularly decorative, but also invite you to participate in sowing and growing various useful and ornamental plants, for example if you do not have the opportunity to plant your own garden. Adults can test their green fingers and children are also welcome to learn a lot about plants. But the most important are the social relationships that develop during gardening. You meet new people, work together and maybe even make new friends for life. So a great thing in every way!

Urban Gardening in Berlin-Kreuzberg

A big city like Berlin is full of garden projects, all of which are very different. Am Moritzplatz For example, is the Prinzessinnengarten. Here you can not only sit in the beer garden, drink a wine and try culinary delights, but you can also stroll between the herb gardens and get involved yourself. For decades, the area lay fallow and neglected until 2009 volunteers freed the area from garbage and virtually broke ground for today over 500 different types of vegetables and herbs, which grow there on almost 6000 square meters.

More information is available at prinzessinnengarten.net

Urban Gardening in Berlin-Neukölln

The organic gardens in Kreuzberg and Neukölln, which are supported by Berlin's Turkish-German Environmental Center. In cooperation with the “Kinderbauernhof im Görlitzer Park e.V.”, the first garden for the integration of migrants was created in 2008 on Wiener Straße at the Görlitzer Bahnhof subway station. Almost a year later, the second garden was opened on the site of the former Kindl brewery on Werbellinstraße in northern Neukölln, which covers around 700 square meters. In addition to integration, the focus is on community and responsibility; different cultures not only exchange different horticultural experiences, but also contacts, languages and cultures.

More information is available at Umweltzentrum.tdz-berlin.de/index.php

Urban Gardening in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Most popular Mauerpark in the Berlin district Prenzlauer Berg Is the cleverly named Mauergarten, in which not only plants diligently, but also counteract the threatening death of bees thanks to solidary beekeepers. The wall garden was completely redesigned in October 2016 three years after the start and reopened in spring 2017. It is therefore a good idea to get involved in a relatively young project and to help shape it.

More information is available at www.mauergarten.net

Urban Gardening in Berlin-Wedding

There is a community garden, also with an intercultural background, in what was formerly known as a working-class district Wedding, which is becoming increasingly popular and where people from all over the world live together. that Himmelbeet It is open from April to October and is not far from the Leopoldplatz underground station on Ruheplatzstraße and invites you to garden with others and harvest for yourself. Since 2013, the former brownfield in Wedding has been cultivated and thus contributes significantly to the better social climate in the district.

So you can tell that big city doesn't mean that no one here knows anything about gardening. Whether for big or small, Berlin's many different garden projects can not only enrich their own spice rack, children in particular learn a lot here and adults can also encourage their green fingers. The additional exchange with a wide variety of people in the city, from the original Berlin to new students, allows you to get to know diverse communities and make contacts. The Indian philosopher and poet Tagore has already said: Fools hurry, clever people wait, wise men go into the garden.

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