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18. August 2015

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Bostan – A Garden near your House in Istanbul

In Istanbul a community garden project is awaken to a new life. The Bostan garden includes a field the size of 2000 m². Hannes Lorenzen, a friend a great supporter of the 2000 m² project has recently visited Istanbul and taken the first steps towards a new cooperation: 2000 …

13. August 2015

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Earth Overshoot Day

Today, August 13th 2015 is Earth Overshoot Day: Humanity has exhausted the natural ressources and bearing capacity our planet provides in one year. For the rest of the year, so the story goes, we are reducing the planets living substance. Translating this story into our 2000 …

4. August 2015

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The Future Of Food

Neighborhood Academy Prinzessinnengarten presents the results of Brett Bloom’s residency project A presentation of research around the question of the future of food in the region. Undertaken by Åsa Sonjasdotter and Marco Clausen of the Neighborhood Academy, and invited artist in residence Brett Bloom. They have been …

5. May 2015

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GM-free Soy in Berlin

Today we planted our soy on the 2000 m² field in Berlin. Together with Donausoja, Eurosivo and Save Our Seeds we discussed the cultivation of GM-free soy and other protein crops in Europe. First we inoculated the seeds. The soy plant is a legume and therefore is able to …

10. April 2014

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Soy – a problematic animal feed

With the increasing rise on the global scale of the industrial animal farming system, an increasing number of food animals are given feed based on high protein soybean meal formulated to speed their growth. In this system, the animal feed for pigs contain several ingredients – …

1. April 2014

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Our little 2000m² global field by the Havel river

On Sunday, we got together on the SpeiseGut farm, right on the bank of the Havel river in Berlin, to plant the seeds that will bring the 2000m² field to life. We started planting a scaled down representation of the global situation, making adjustments for the …

25. March 2014

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Planting the Global Field

This weekend, we will have a little garden party and are inviting anyone who is interested to come help plant seeds for the 2000m² field in Berlin. We will be planting wheat, barley, oats, carrots, turnips, Jerusalem artichockes, potatoes and onions. There will be coffee and …

14. March 2014

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Population Boom!

Documentary film ‘Population Boom’ playing in theatres now A well-known nightmarish vision of the future: The Earth’s population reaches seven billion. Dwindling resources, mountains of toxic waste, hunger and climate change-the results of overpopulation? Who says that the world’s overpopulated? And who’s one too many? After the …

6. March 2014

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Plowing the field

This week we plowed our 2000m² field in Berlin. Well… actually we got help from our neighbor Peter who came over with his plow and tractor and did it the way it should be done. Unfortunately, the 100 year old walnut tree by the field hadn’t …

28. February 2014

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Sharing the Harvest: CSA in Berlin

You might already know Christian Heymann as the farmer who runs our 2000m² field in Berlin. His main occupation however is his CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) SpeiseGut. In this short video you get to see what it is like to be a part of the CSA …