ERNTE - Harvestors

                                         Entrance to PRINZESSINNEN garten at Moritz Platz 

                                                   Seed bank and office

                                         Composting bins

                                         Cycle repair workshop

                                         Wall garden

                                         Vegetables growing in plastic crates

. Prinzessinnengarten (Princess Garden) is a large agriculture undertaking located on Moritzplatz in the diverse city quarter of Kreuzberg. In the summer of 2009, hundreds of volunteers converted the square, a formerly empty and unused urban wasteland the size of a city block, into a highly productive vegetable and fruit garden. Local residents have maintained and expanded the garden in the years since, adding seven beehives to the square. the 90 meter x 90 meter area now is sourrounded by a high wire fence covered in vegetation,within  it are a cycle repair shop,seed bank,cafe,plant nursery and composting facilities..
. No overview of Berlin’s urban agriculture would be complete without mentioning the city’s long-established Schrebergaerten, the numerous ‘allotment gardens’. These community gardening areas, some of them quite large, were first created over 150 years ago as a means of supplementing the weekly soup pot. But the real allotment garden movement focused on the benefits of fresh air, physical education and bringing city children closer to nature. During and after the two World Wars, the allotments were important subsistence gardens, and the garden cottages on them were used as homes. There are currently over 800 allotment garden complexes in the Berlin area
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