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Urban Agriculture

Growing fruit and vegetables has become trendy. Whether in Berlin or Munich, London or New York: New forms of urban agriculture are developing everywhere - intercultural gardens, community gardens, city farms, neighborhood gardens, children's farms or guerilla gardening. When gardeners meet, community and commitment to urban districts develops. Wastelands are cleaned up and are cultivated, practical learning sites for children and a new impetus for cooperative interaction are created. Urban districts improve their quality of life through these civil-social engagements.
The foundation association, anstiftung & ertomis connects, promotes and explores the diverse practices of urban agriculture. It brings together innovative urban activists and , cooperates for example with the internet platform urbanacker, with prinzessinnengarten, mundraub, Allmende_Kontor or agropolis.

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"Prinzessinnengarten" in Berlin, picture: Marco Clausen

Background articles on urban agriculture
Video about urban farming in Berlin (Prinzessinnengarten / English subtitles)

Conference: "Urban Agriculture and Gardens - The Future of the City"
New forms of urban gardening and its importance for the future of the city were taken up at the conference "Urban Agriculture and Gardens" by the foundation association in October 2009 at the Protestant Academy of Tutzing. The more than 100 participants (including the fields of urban development, architecture, landscape planning, subsistence research) held stimulating and engaged discussions over issues such as experiencing nature, aesthetic, visual and historical dimensions of urban gardening and impacts on climate and sustainable urban development (the program in German).

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Picture: Marco Clausen

Munich Foundation Initiative for Urban Gardeners
The Munich Foundation Initiative is for the recognition and expansion of new forms of urban gardening. The participating foundations(Bürgerstiftung Zukunftsfähiges München, Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung, Schweisfurth-Stiftung, Selbach-Umwelt-Stiftung, Stiftungsgemeinschaft anstiftung & ertomis, Stiftung Interkultur) commisioned the study "Urban Participatory Garden Activities in Munich 2009" and plan further steps for stronger community minded, ecological land use in Munich (Map: Urban Gardens in Munich).


	Die Stiftung Urbane Landwirtschaft Medienecho Forschungsarbeiten Aktivitäten Links, Blogs, Foren Offene Werkstätten Region Interkultur Forschung Publikationen Wanderausstellung Kontakt Impressum		Urban Agriculture >>German Growing fruit and vegetables has become trendy. Whether in Berlin or Munich, London or New York: New forms of urban agriculture are developing everywhere - intercultural gardens, community gardens, city farms, neighborhood gardens, children's farms or guerilla gardening. When gardeners meet, community and commitment to urban districts develops. Wastelands are cleaned up and are cultivated, practical learning sites for children and a new impetus for cooperative interaction are created. Urban districts improve their quality of life through these civil-social engagements. The foundation association, anstiftung & ertomis connects, promotes and explores the diverse practices of urban agriculture. It brings together innovative urban activists and , cooperates for example with the internet platform urbanacker, with prinzessinnengarten, mundraub, Allmende_Kontor or agropolis. "Prinzessinnengarten" in Berlin, picture: Marco Clausen Background articles on urban agriculture Video about urban farming in Berlin (Prinzessinnengarten / English subtitles) Conference: "Urban Agriculture and Gardens - The Future of the City" New forms of urban gardening and its importance for the future of the city were taken up at the conference "Urban Agriculture and Gardens" by the foundation association in October 2009 at the Protestant Academy of Tutzing. The more than 100 participants (including the fields of urban development, architecture, landscape planning, subsistence research) held stimulating and engaged discussions over issues such as experiencing nature, aesthetic, visual and historical dimensions of urban gardening and impacts on climate and sustainable urban development (the program in German). Picture: Marco Clausen Munich Foundation Initiative for Urban Gardeners The Munich Foundation Initiative is for the recognition and expansion of new forms of urban gardening. The participating foundations(Bürgerstiftung Zukunftsfähiges München, Gregor Louisoder Umweltstiftung, Schweisfurth-Stiftung, Selbach-Umwelt-Stiftung, Stiftungsgemeinschaft anstiftung & ertomis, Stiftung Interkultur) commisioned the study "Urban Participatory Garden Activities in Munich 2009" and plan further steps for stronger community minded, ecological land use in Munich (Map: Urban Gardens in Munich).