The women of the Rosenduft Gaerten

going to rosenduft gaerten

the new season

small steams

the women

I arrived as a refugee in Berlin from Bosnia in 1995, because of the war. In my country I had a very big garden where I cultivated a lot of vegetables, I am fond of them! Indeed I really love Sataras, that is mixed vegetables, just vegetables. Moreover we use many of them for medicinal purposes: peppermint for istance and also roots, many different ones. Also parseley is used, it’s very good, dried to drink, it’s also good for bladder. However when I am ill what feel me better it is just börek! We eat a lot but many different sorts, here it’s known just with cheese and meat, but we have it also with potatoes, pumpkin, with all possible.

Almira-Ada, Bosnian 

cultivating

the new plants

the women

great efforts!

I had to leave my country when I was 16 because of the war. There I helped my parents in the garden and we had almost everything: cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, parsley, carrots... here in berlin I have my own garden and I do not miss any ingredient because, coming from an European country, on gardenplants, ist almost the same as in Germany.

Seka, Bosnian

planting seeds

rosenduft gaerten

 

I come from the very southest part of Nigeria and arrived in Germany five years ago, actually when I met my husband. He is from Berlin. And since when I arrived here I missed nature, because here we are so far from it! In my country instead - even if I grew up in a big city - nature was much closer  (even the moon, that was so bright) and when I came back to my village, every family used to have its own farm or fish. In our garden we cultivated a lot of vegetables, they are very common in the South and we ate a lot! The most popular we had a sort of "fluted pumpkin" but it is very different from yours and very healthy and nutritious. The Igbos call it ugu but we (the Efiks) call it ikong, I do not know the botanical name... Unfortunately I can find it just in one or two shops here in Berlin, but it is too expensive and too dried. So I have tried to bring some seeds from my town and I planted here. They grew up, but they were not so good because of the weather. In fact, also in Nigeria it grows just in the South because it needs humid soil.

Susann, Nigerian

http://www.stiftung-interkultur.de/berlin/berlin-kreuzberg-rosenduft

http://www.suedost-ev.de/interkultureller_garten/interkultureller_garten.php

Many nationalities at POG

a gardener's house waiting for springtime

Klaus Trappmann: There is a women here that everybody calls her "Paprika". She lived in Yugoslavia when Yugoslavia still existed and she taught Albanian language, but after the war, the government did not need her any more and she had to start another job, so she began gardening. She was and she is still fond of paprika and brings the seeds from kosovo for cultivating and cooks paprika in a balcanic way. She put some in vinaigre and others inside onions or in other foods. Some are very hot other are more sweet. 
Another gardener is specialized in healing plants and he has got really a lot! 
Then we have another gardener, a women coming from Naxos, that cultivates a lot of wild herbs and put them in marmelades and other dishes... she cooks really well! She also does a lot of food in oil.
In the kolonie there are also two or three people coming from Russia... A lot of nationalities here at POG!
http://www.wir-bleiben.de/ 

a gardener's house and its dwarfs

the square where the POG has its community dinners

Meridian I Urban Projects in Berlin

http://www.hkw.de/de/hkw/aktivitaeten/apw2011/apw2011.php

Do you like cultivating? Tell us your recipes!

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Hallo!

wir (das Invisible Twinning Projekt team) möchten Ihnen unser spannendes Projekt zum Thema Gärten in der Stadt Berlin vorstellen.

Wir sind:

Giulia Giannola, eine Künstlerin aus Italien, die in Berlin wohnt, Francesca Mila Nemni, eine Kuratorin aus Italien, die  in Mailand lebt und Gayle Chong Kwan, eine britische Künstlerin, die derzeit in London wohnt.

Wir möchten mit unserem Projekt gerne die Erfahrungen der Gartenarbeit von den unterschiedlichsten Menschen der verschiedensten Nationalitäten sammeln und dokumentieren. Menschen, die ihre Gärten in Berlin kreiert haben, in ihnen anbauen, ernten, sich erholen und an ihnen weiter arbeiten.

Unser Projekt möchte in einem Buch erzählen, wie sich die unterschiedlichen Kulturen der Stadt, durch die Praxis der Gartenarbeit zum Ausdruck bringen.

Wir möchten die Gärtner fragen, was sie in ihren Gärten kultivieren. Ob und  wie sich das angebaute Obst und Gemüse oder auch die Blumen und anderen Zierpflanzen auf die Herkunftskulturen der Gärtner beziehen und wie sie mit ihnen umgehen. Wir möchten wissen, ob das angebaute Obst und Gemüse für das hauseigene Kochen in speziellen Rezepten Verwendung findet. Oder ob die angepflanzten Kräuter beispielsweise für die Heilung von Krankheiten verwendet werden.

Unser Projekt wird vom „Haus der Kulturen der Welt“ unterstützt und mit einer Ausstellung der gesammelten Geschichten und Bilder einen schönen Abschluss finden.

Wenn Sie Interesse an unserer Arbeit haben, möchten wir Sie herzlich einladen mitzumachen und zusammen mit uns ein großes, gemeinsames Essen im September 2011 zu organisieren. Bei diesem Essen sollen die unterschiedlichen Produkte der Gärten in traditionellen Gerichten der verschiedenen Kulturen serviert werden.

Wir suchen nun Menschen die an unserem Projekt interessiert sind.

Wenn Sie mitmachen möchten, freuen wir uns, Sie bald einmal persönlich kennen zu lernen.

Viele Grüße!!

Giulia, Mila und Gayle

invisibletwinning@gmail.com

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Hallo!
 

We collect interviews and experiences from people of different nationalities who created and cultivate  gardens in the city of Berlin. Our project aim is to show the different cultures existing in the city of Berlin through the telling of the praxis of gardening in the city.
We would like to interview people on what they are cultivating, how/if theese cultivations are realted to their cultures and how they use them, for example in recepies, or healty uses.
The project is supported by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and will end with an art publication of the collected histories and pictures.
If you are interested we would also like to invite you to collaborate to organise a big meal which is going to take place in september where the products cultivated in the gardens will feature in traditional dishes from different countries.

We are looking now for people interested in the project, if you want to participate, we'll be happy to come and meet you.

Many greets!!!

Giulia, Mila and Gayle

invisibletwinning@gmail.com