Urban gardening in Berlin

It's green and sprouting in Berlin. Environmentally conscious residents of the city are growing organic fruit and vegetables in parks and on brownfield sites, creating an understanding of the origin and cultivation of food in the centre of the city: urban gardening has long since become a trend in the capital.

The Urban Gardening projects in Berlin are cultivated by various associations, initiatives and groups of volunteers, but they have a few things in common: they are intended to beautify and enrich city life, bring a piece of nature into the urban jungle and promote dialogue and community. In addition to community gardening, many projects also offer various workshops and a cultural programme.

We would like to introduce you to some urban gardening projects directly:

Allmende-Kontor

An urban gardening project has been established on Tempelhofer Feld, one of the largest open spaces in the world in the city centre. On Oderstraße, the Association "Gemeinschaftsgarten Allmende-Kontor e.V." cultivates a 5000 square metre area with raised beds. Self-built raised beds and seating give the Allmende-Kontor its alternative flair. Workshops and guided tours are also offered.

You can enjoy the tranquillity of nature on the grounds of the community garden, but please be considerate of the garden and the gardeners. Once a month there is an opportunity for new gardeners to get involved under the motto "Join the Allmende-Kontor", current dates can be found in the Calendar of the  Allmende-Kontor.

Opening hours Tempelhofer Feld
Daily 6 to 22:30 (in winter 6:00 to 17:00)

himmelbeet

Whether gardening yourself or actively doing nothing and relaxing, everyone is welcome to spend time in the himmelbeet. The intercultural urban gardening project in Wedding offers leased beds and communally cultivated areas as well as workshops and events on gardening and social and ecological issues. There are also regular hands-on days at himmelbeet, which you can simply attend if you feel like getting stuck in. You can find out when this is possible in the Calendar of events at himmelbeet. 

In the Garden Café, the fruit, vegetables and, more recently, mushrooms are served directly from the bed to your plate, deliciously prepared and exclusively vegetarian and vegan. You can enjoy tasty dishes at fair prices on self-built benches made from pallets and support the initiative.

The garden is barrier-free and is intended to be a place where a good life is possible for everyone.

Opening hours himmelbeet (November to March):
Monday to Sunday 10 am to 4 pm 

Opening hours garden café (April to October):
Monday to Sunday 10 am to at least 8 pm (including public holidays)

Prinzessinnengärten

Together with many hard-working neighbours, the collective "Nomadisch Grün" is growing Prinzessinnengärten in Neukölln grow delicious organic fruit and vegetables. In addition to gardening, the community also uses the former grounds of the New St. Jacobi Cemetery in Neukölln to learn: in various workshops and guided tours, in addition to sowing, planting and harvesting, seed production, processing and preserving vegetables, keeping bees, building a worm compost and developing new DIY cultivation methods are explained.
The 6,000 m² ecological and social garden landscape on Moritzplatz, originally known as the Prinzessinnengärten, is now used as an inclusion and community garden for the neighbourhood.

And the best thing is that the Garden Café  serves delicious dishes made from the fruit and vegetables grown. From April to October, it is open daily from 11 am to 5 pm. From May to September, it is even open from 11 am to 7 pm. It's well worth a visit. 

If you would like to plant in the Prinzessinnengärten, you can go to one of the open gardening days.

Gut Hellersdorf

In cooperation between PrinzessinnenGartenBau and the district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, another community garden project has been created on the grounds of Gut Hellersdorf, the former village centre of Marzahn-Hellersdorf.

Horstwirtschaft

What is probably Berlin's highest urban gardening project, the Horstwirtschaft, is located in the Klunkerkranich on the roof of the Neukölln Arkaden shopping centre. In the so-called KlunkerGarten, you can get to know herbs and colouring plants and enjoy a wonderful view over the capital. Access to the garden is possible during the opening hours of the Klunkerkranich and is free of charge, because the garden should be there for everyone.

You can look over the shoulders of the active gardeners on a guided tour through the gardens and in the Klunkerkranich you can enjoy a drink or two and tasty snacks and enjoy the ambience in the creative roof garden.

Please send enquiries for guided tours to: klunkergarten@horstwirtschaft.de

Where:  On the roof of the Neukölln-Arkaden, Karl-Marx-Str. 66, Neukölln (take the lift to the parking deck on the 5th floor, from there follow the crane tracks on foot to the 6th floor)

Opening times Klunkerkranich (including Horstwirtschaft):
April to October daily from 12 to 2
Different opening hours in the low season

Discover even more sustainable activities in our Events calendar.