The City Farm in the Augarten – Diepresse.com

The City Farm in the Augarten has now had a long history. She goes back to a private initiative in which Haubenkoch Johann Reisinger and garden and environmental journalist Ingrid Geisenegger were involved. In 2011, the project was set up as a non -profit association. Wolfgang Palme was also one of the driving forces right from the start.

The idea of ​​creating a public city vegetable garden, a place of teaching and the exchange for everyone interested in vegetable growing was formulated as follows: « It all started to make the incredible variety of vegetable plants, the joy of gardening and the fascinating processes of food as many people in the big city as possible through their own experience. »

Fresh from the earth

How should large and small city dwellers know how it feels, how it feels to pull a crunchy carrot fresh out of the ground, how delicious sun -warm paradisers taste and how to cultivate exotic vegetables like the New Zealand spinach? If you have no experience, but also want to use the balcony as a vegetable garden and use it sensibly, you will find all the necessary information here.

The first location was in the Schönbrunn chamber veneer. After six years, however, the garden educators had to leave the beautiful area and only found a new place to stay on around 4000 square meters after a tedious search in the Augarten. The hotspot for vegetable lovers, school children and all garden enthusiasts on the area between porcelain manufactory and the palace of the Viennese singing boy. For the not inconsiderable lease, the club has to pay itself, which is not understandable in the face of its services. The City Farm Augarten, for example, provides kindergartens and school classes for beds in order to convey the important experience garden and nature to the little ones. Careful shaping by the club’s experts included. There is always something going on in the City Farm, even in winter, when the children are harvesting winter vegetables such as palm cabbage, leek, kale and the like fresh from the beds and then tasting them into the now restored premises. Here you will learn everything about wild bees, earthworms and seeds, you paint with natural colors and can take part in garden fun weeks during the summer vacation.

Workshops and plant markets

But also for adults there is an equally rich and quite demanding range of programs, such as workshops for vegetable diversity on the balcony and terrace or courses on the subject of art of fermentation of cultural and game vegetables. In between, the association also always organizes young plant markets, where rarities can often be found and through which the association co -financed, among other things. However, the system would not wear without volunteers, without sponsors and supporters. Volunteers and volunteers are always sought. The City Farm is a real lover project, and everyone who maintains a garden will know that this does not happen without powerful effort.

From April there will be the products of their own market nursery since 2024. All information about this and the program of the city gardeners can be found at www.cityfarm.wien. Wolfgang Palme himself is one of the international pioneers of the winter vegetable movement and has written all of the recommendable books. Never end the garden season to harvest fresh vegetables in winter without heating with any heating. Speaking of: On YouTube, the club maintains a video channel, peppered with an informative, from asparagus cultivation to the advantages and disadvantages of different mulch materials, you can also learn from home from home.