INSPIRATION | keimzelle, hamburg

And again the city of Hamburg shares some more inspiration on urban gardening with us. The Keimzelle {germ cell/ nucleus/ seedbed} is operating since May 2011 and calls itself  a "wee social urban garden".

    

Another inspirational take on turning wooden pallets into raised beds.   

Probably the cheapest planter ever…

INSPIRATION | neuland, cologne

{ credits to Stefano Chiolo }

Another source of inspiration from Germany, this time from Neuland {uncultivated land} in Cologne.   This mobile urban garden has sprang up on the brownfield site of former Dom brewery in July 2011 in order to turn an underused, decaying inner city site into productive space.

Raised beds from wooden pallets.

I really like the idea of building a wooden construction for the white carrier bags. We could do this for Willowbank, too… given that a carrier bag is sitting on the pavement and that we do know where to source pallets from by now.

Reusing sauce buckets from catering to grow sunflowers. jejeje…

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INSPIRATION | gartendeck, hamburg

{ gartendeck }

The Gartendeck is a temporary community garden in the German city of Hamburg, turning the flat roof of a parking level into a productive urban landscape. The use of orange plastic crates on wooden pallets is the project's distinctive feature.

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INSPIRATION | allemende kontor, berlin

{ Kilian Müller 2012 }

 The Allemende-Kontor {commons-wholesale organization} is a community gardening project on the grounds of former Berlin airport Tempelhof which has closed all operations in 2008 due to the upcoming Berlin-Brandenburg airport (BBA) in 2013(?) . Since 2011 more than 300 creative individual beds form probably the world's biggest raised bed complex.

INSPIRATION | rio de janeiro

Community garden in a favela.


{ Christophe Simon/AFP/GettyImages via ZEIT online }

INSPIRATION | new york farm city

{ by Petrina Engelke & Raul Mandru via vimeo }


"how vegetables are grown in New York".

INSPIRATION | prinzessinnengärten, berlin

{all pictures via prinzessinnengärten blog } 

site || former wasteland in Berlin-Kreuzberg, first season in summer 2009

materials || transportable vegetable plots

 Bags of rice.

Recycled boxes for bakery goods.

Binding the soil.

Mini gardens on sealed grounds. Setting up soil-independent raised bed systems in the backyard of UdK (University of Arts).

Relocation to the winter quarters ('Markthalle).

Garden studio. Indoor sowing in february. 

Recycling milk cartons from the garden café.

events ||

Urban bees.

Fleamarket. Active monthly recyling.

Garden dinner.

Garden café.

Concert.

Watch the wee documentary on the prinzessinnengärten on [monocle].