Where is Urban Gardening practiced?

Where, how and by whom is urban gardening practiced?
Just as variegated as the goals of urban gardening are, so are the places and plots that are used for cultivation. Besides parking decks, private properties, flat roofs and backyards, there are mainly urban fallow land (so called dead areas) on which vegetables and herbs are cultivated. In Berlin the airport Tempelhof, that is partly not used, was diverted from its formerly intended use. Urban Gardening uses a variety of different containers for the cultivation. That way you will find containers, tubs, buckets, boxes, self-constructed raised beds, barrels, palettes, fiber cloth sacks and even discarded beverage cartons, as well as baby-bathtubs, that got a new purpose and now are used for growing plants. Sometimes they use tree slices as well.



As initiators, carriers, operating companies and users of urban gardening projects primarily officiate citizens’ groups, churches, schools, political groups and associations et cetera. But also neighbors organize themselves and sometimes get government-funded. What they all have in common is the fact, that they want to bring positive change.