At home we have always eaten very mixed food such as American mixed with French and a lot of Chinese...

When I was child we used sage for throat infections, also for the stomach, I think, or for digestion, thyme in any case and lavender, which there is quite a lot of in the south of France. I know that lavender is used for its calming effect, especially for children.

I cook myself a lot. At home we have always eaten very mixed food such as American mixed with French and a lot of Chinese... When I miss something, for example a good quiche or something like that then I cook it myself and the ingredients for it are easy to find. It's my favourite. You can throw everything in it, and it's always delicious with crème fraiche, eggs and emmenthal cheese. The classic quiche is also with diced bacon, then you make a Pâte brisée, it's like a dough, and then it can be with vegetables or meat. You can eat it cold and warm, but either way it is always delicious.

Pyramidengärten

I grew up in the countryside up to when I was 17 years old. We have always planted carrots, salad and vegetables there, but since I started traveling around I didn't really have the opportunity to grow things. Then I finally decided to leave Barcelona for Berlin because I wanted to improve my German and the city sounded romantic. This is the first garden where I think I will become a member and grow something. One day, I would love to have cherry trees.

Fredji Powell, French, Pyramidengärten

Probably 99% are Germans.

We have few gardeners with migrant background, foreigners as it was once said, above all Vietnamese. We have over 5000 allotment holders, among these there are maybe 50 who are not originally German. This is really a minority, probably 99% are Germans.

Holger Thymian, German, office of Bezirksverband der Kleingärtner Berlin-Weißensee e.V.

A community oven at Wuhlegärten

gerda and giulia

Our colony opened in 2003. We have people coming from Argentina, Bosnia, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Vietnam and as we have built a big oven in the middle of the colony so that everyone can bake bread according to his or her traditions, so I have learnt many way of baking it.

Gerda Münich, German, Wuhlegärten

the oven

http://stiftung-interkultur.de/berlin/berlin-koepenick-wuhlegarten