Our participating Gardens

The community garden Allmende Kontor is located on the east side of the Tempelhofer Feld. In April 2011, the first 10 raised beds were created on an area of 5000 m² with about 20 gardeners. In 2014, the association Gemeinschaftsgarten Allmende Kontor e.V. was founded. Since then, the garden and its community have flourished with more than 250 raised beds and over 500 fellow gardeners – self-organized.

Together with the initiatives Blühender Campus and SUSTAIN IT!, in May 2020 students, employees of Freie Universität Berlin and local residents created the community garden Blätterlaube with raised beds with vegetables and dye plants, a deadwood corner as a shelter for many animal species, a butterfly spiral, bird, wild bee and bat nesting aids, a compost and a pond. In its wild diversity, the garden shows how biodiversity can be promoted.

Garten der Begegnung is a community garden in Berlin Marzahn that offers individuals as well as kindergardens, schools, and initiatives the opportunity to cultivate their own beds. There is also a small garden library, a “green classroom”, a pond with a solar-powered water feature and a newly planted herb spiral. In terms of content, the gardeners are dedicated to the topics of ecological gardening, sustainable building and the economical use of resources.

The Gardening School is a facility of the August Sander School in Berlin Friedrichshain. Children without their own garden have the opportunity to experience the feeling of digging up a bed, harvesting apples fresh from the tree or caring for animals. Through practical gardening, they acquire manual skills and strengthen their understanding of the environment and nature.

The Tempelhof-Schöneberg Gardening School was founded in 1922 as part of the reform school movement. In 1988 it was expanded to include the outdoor laboratory and in 2000 the animal and play yard. On 25,000 m² of garden and biotope areas, pupils are offered a green place of learning with projects on environmental education and sustainability in the centre of Berlin.

Initiated and supported by the Spandau district office, the goal was to create a garden area in the front yard of the Jeremia church community with communal areas for meeting, relaxing and exercise, as well as a larger kitchen garden area for growing vegetables. Since 2007, the gardeners have been meeting to work together, harvest and enjoy the fruits together, for example at cooking afternoons, which are attended by many people from the neighborhood.

The community garden wachsenlassen is a meeting place for people who are committed to the environment and the social community. The gardeners want to protect insects and birds in their garden, propagate their own seeds, grow vegetables and herbs, and cultivate dyer plants. DIY/DIT workshops are held regularly to process the garden’s harvests. In cooperation with the family center Villa Lützow, nature education offers for families are carried out.

Himmelbeet is a community garden in Berlin Wedding. The garden is run by a large, open group, mainly in voluntary work. Some of the beds are leased from neighbors, some are tended by the community, and 15 beds are given to social initiatives and organizations. Old, rare varieties and the preservation of biodiversity are particularly close to the gardeners’ hearts.

Since 2016, Inselgarten has been located on the “Rote Insel” a neighborhood in Berlin Schöneberg. Raised beds, seating areas and watering facilities were built and vegetable plants were grown in the kitchen to create a lively community garden. In addition to growing food, the gardeners are also interested in beekeeping.

The Kiezgarten Fischerstraße is an inclusive participatory garden project and is located in Berlin Lichtenberg. In 2013, the Kiezgarten was founded by committed people under the sponsorship of the Verein für Sozial Ökologische Entwicklung e.V. Berlin. Ten years later, the garden has developed into a project that uniquely combines closeness to nature and alternative concepts of collaboration and exchange. About 180 people are actively involved in the project at the moment.

In the KlunkerGarten, people do not simply garden, as beautiful as this activity is in itself. From the beginning, the garden was also intended as a place for exchange, learning and the development of ideas and visions. Individual, but also institutional project ideas have always played an important role: The garden has been part of various small and larger projects from the fields of urban ecology, biodiversity, sustainability and permaculture.

In May 2012, a handful of residents and gardeners got together through Transition Town Pankow to build an intercultural community garden in Mauerpark. Since then, the group of active people has grown steadily and neighbors from the neighboring neighborhoods contribute their different ideas, skills and cultural backgrounds. This has resulted in a garden in the park with more than 70 raised beds, which is jointly supported by the association founded for this purpose with over 100 members.

The Moabiter Bürger*innengarten is located on the grounds of the Center for Art and Urbanism (ZKU) at Westhafen. The garden consists of both raised beds and beds on the ground. It is also characterized by diverse structures such as a herb spiral, a small pond and many climbing aids. The gardeners are interested not only in exchanging experiences about gardening practice, but also in topics such as biodiversity and beekeeping.

In the neighbourhood garden Laskerwiese, people from the neighbourhood and the surrounding area can garden together in about 35 small plots and grow vegetables, herbs and fruit. The gardeners meet regularly on garden days to exchange ideas and to help each other with workshops, seeds, seedlings and tips and tricks for gardening. The neighbourhood garden thus becomes a place of exchange across cultural, political, social and generational differences.

The Nachbarschaftsgarten Wiecker Straße is a green oasis between the tall prefabricated buildings in the Ostseeviertel. It was created in 2012 on the former site of a daycare center. Today, of course, people are busy gardening there and enjoying joint activities such as knitting, cooking jam or painting in the green. Unfortunately, the future of the garden is uncertain, as the landowner is planning to build a residential building on the site.

For the gardeners of Peace of Land, permaculture is a method that helps shape the world, large and small. It involves designing, installing and managing productive, energy-efficient land use systems to meet human needs in harmony with nature. Since their garden paradise had to inadvertently give way to the construction of a gymnasium, they want to create a new project on another site in the neighbourhood.

Vattenfall Wärme‘s “Pflanz was!” urban garden is located directly in front of the Mitte combined heat and power plant in the heart of Berlin and covers an area of approximately 1,500 square meters. The garden at Köpenicker Straße 60 has been diligently dug and planted since 2017. The garden is tended by the neighborhood and all other interested garden friends.

The first of two Vattenfall Wärme city gardens was opened in June 2016 at Neue Grünstraße 13-14 and has been accessible to everyone since then. The garden team invites all garden lovers and those who want to become gardeners to join them on an area of around 500 square metres.

The Prinzessinnengarten Kollektiv Berlin is a community garden located at the Neue St. Jacobi Friedhof in Berlin-Neukölln that invites people to garden and experience nature. The activities of the gardeners are open to all and range from sowing, planting, and harvesting seeds, keeping bees, and building a worm compost to questions of communal design of urban living space.

The garden Rote Beete was created in 2017 on the initiative of the Centre Français de Berlin and the neighbors of the property. It sees itself as a collaborative and educational workspace with a focus on interculturality and intergenerationality that aims to promote coexistence and collaborative creation for residents, associations, and institutions in the neighborhood.

The community garden Schalottengarten is a small garden with raised beds for the neighborhood at Westkreuz. It is located in the midst of greenery between several allotment gardens and the tracks leading to Westkreuz and is characterized by numerous, wild shrubs and diverse food cultivation. The gardeners value an ecological garden design.

The Spiel/Feld community garden was founded by a temporary university project of the TU Berlin and has now been run for over 10 years by the Spiel/Feld Marzahn e.V. non-profit association, which was founded especially for the continuation of the project. Anyone who enjoys gardening together can join in. The garden is also open for regular environmental education activities or simply a chat at the garden fence.

The Vollguter Community Garden is a small garden with many raised beds on the Kindl-Area in densely built-up Berlin Neukölln neighborhood. The garden is freely accessible and open all year round. In addition to maintaining the raised beds, the gardeners’ activities include events such as a clothing exchange, cooking evenings, and planning meetings for the further development of the area.