Posts Tagged ‘Urban Gardening’
(English) Berlin’s community gardens
Berlin's super-sized community gardens (and why they should be exported to the U.S.)... When I’m in a city, I am drawn to the places in-between. Spaces, I mean, that somehow avoided being paved over, or built upon, or that once held buildings that have now collapsed, the rubble mostly hauled away, leaving only the structure’s ghost all filled up with spindly weeds. Sometimes these spaces are just surprising: When vacant lots are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars just a [...]
(English) Marco Clausen: Berlin’s Urban Gardener
Madeline Maher chats to Marco Clausen, co-founder of Nomadisch Grün and the Prinzessinnengarten... Nomadisch Grün (Nomadic Green) launched Prinzessinnengärten (Princess gardens) as a pilot project in the summer of 2009 at Moritzplatz in Berlin Kreuzberg, a site which had been a wasteland for over half a century. Along with friends, fans, activists and neighbours, the group cleared away rubbish, built transportable organic vegetable plots and reaped the first fruits of their [...]
Prinzessinnengärten
Berlins neuester städtischer Garten hat einen königlichen Namen und eine edle Mission... Hinter dem romantischen Namen Prinzessinnengärten, verbirgt sich eine nicht gerade romantische Straßeecke Berlin Kreuzberg, verborgen in einer alternativen Enklave türkischer Kultur und in Nähe des lauten Verkehrs um den Moritzplatz. Im Zentrum dieses nicht genutzten und heruntergekommenen Areals, starteten zwei ambitionierte Individualisten ein urbanes Garten Projekt. Robert, einer der [...]
