48 Stunden Neukölln | Garten nr.3

Gayle Chong Kwan's, Potato, Collage, 2011

We have got card, paper, scissors and glue... join us and create your own ideal garden!

This weekend Invisible Twinning is attending 48 Stunden Neukölln and will create maquettes of ideal gardens. 
Everybody can partecipate! 
We are waiting for you!


Or do you have a secrete recipe to tell us? We will shot a video of you!

Hand in Hand, Rütlistr. 8, 12045 Berlin

Garden nr.3
Sa 18 Juni 14:00 — 20:00
So 19 Juni 12:00 — 18:00

program 2011 Hand in Hand

join us and make your ideal garden!

we wait for you here: Hand in Hand, Ossastr. 46, 12045 Berlin

48 Stunden Neukölln

Sa 18 Juni 14:00 — 20:00
So 19 Juni 12:00 — 18:00

An installation as part of the 'Invisible Twinning' project, which explores different garden projects (Community, Intercultural, Allotment) that mirror the multicultural existence and experience in Berlin. The installation includes a video of project participants explaining how to cook recipes from different countries, and focuses on Neukölln as an area of multiculturality by inviting visitor...s to contribute to the project as well as to alter a maquette of an 'ideal allotment garden' according to their own ideas.

Eine Dokumentation als Teil des ‘Invisible Twinning’ Projekts, das unterschiedliche Gartenprojekte (gemeinschaftlich, interkulturell, Kleingarten) erprobt, die das multikulturelle Leben sowie damit verbundene Erfahrungen in Berlin widerspiegeln. Die Dokumentation beinhaltet ein Video, in dem man von Projekt-Teilnehmern erfaehrt, wie man Rezepte aus verschiedenen Laendern zubereiten kann. Der Fokus liegt hierbei auf Neukoelln als ein Kiez/Zentrum des Multikulturalismus. Die Besucher werden dazu ermuntert, am Projekt aktiv mitzuwirken sowie ein Modell eines ‘idealen kga’ gemaess ihrer eigenen Vorstellungen umzugestalten.

48-stunden-neukoelln

To make a great sataras...

To make a great sataras, add a spoon of Vegeta, Yugoslavian dried vegetables, and a spoon of fresh ajvar (a cream of roasted aubergines and peppers with chilli).

a bosnian recipe

Indeed I really love sataras, that is mixed vegetables, just vegetables. Moreover we use many of them for medicinal purposes: peppermint for instance and also roots, many different ones. Also parsley is used, it’s very good when dried to drink, it’s also good for the bladder. However when I am ill what makes me feel 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...

Almira-Ada Mesic, Bosnian, Gärten Rosenduft

Vegetables stew 

(sataras)

1 Kg red onions
1/2 Kg aubergines
1/2 Kg peppers
1Kg tomatoes

Cut the vegetables in little cubes.
First cook the onions in a pot with a little bit of oil.
Then put the aubergines and the peppers (roast them a little bit)
and after some minutes the tomatoes.
Add a little bit of water.
Cook for ca. 20 min then add pepper and salt.

dish of the day | a fresh beetroot salad!

recibe by Irene Roman

Cultivations at kga in Treptow

Bezirksverband der Gartenfreunde Berlin-Treptow e.V. from S-bahn

woman: You wanted to do some research... It’s best to arrange an appointment with Mr. Landgraf, he is here on tuesdays, but could you please call the office beforehand...

giulia: Can you help me with some general questions, please?

woman: I can only answer questions about plots, in terms of allocation.

giulia: Fine, what’s being cultivated in a plot?

woman: Plots are always being cultivated. Gardening is the key purpose of allotments. The main concern is cultivating fruits and vegetables. You need to grow fruits etc. for your personal use. However, as I said, Mr. Landgraf is the right person to speak to, he also works here, but is currently out of office. He is the Chairman of e.V. Treptow.

giulia: Do you also have an allotment?

woman: Yes of course, I have an allotment in Treptow.

giulia: And what do you cultivate?

woman: What do we cultivate... the majority makes potatoes, soft fruits, strawberries etc..

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Ilona Gross: All herbs, basil, parsley, chives, marjoram, ground herb and as first thing green beans are inserted, green beens are made a lot. When they are inserted, it depends on how warm it is, end of April or beginning of May. Kohlrabi plants are grown with seeds in greenhouse, than the small plants are planted end of april, beginning of may. Tomatoes, carrots, all kind of vegetables, peppers, zucchini.

giulia: How are herbs used?

ilona: Yes herbs, for example, parsley for almost all dishes, and for soups, ground herb for green beans soup, it’s important.

giulia: Is there anything special for health?

ilona: Yes, garlic is for health.

giulia: Do you have your own parcel?

ilona: Yes I do.

giulia: What do you cultivate?

ilona: Everything I said, basil also as spice. And important is savory.

giulia: What is savory?

ilona: It smells like green beans, it’s very powerful, that must be used otherwise food doesn’t taste.

giulia: do you have a recipe?

ilona: I made a book actually. It has been made from women in the allotment garden unit Waldland.

It’s collected recipes.

Many allotment holder make themselves a spice garden, a raised bed, and there they make their spice garden. When they can not bend themselves anymore they make raised beds.

giulia: Asparagus time?

ilona: It’s always just until june, end of april until june. But asparagus is difficult to grow, just few gardners do it. Broccoli and cauliflower is the easiest. And what more…

Celery is very healthy, do you know celery? It’s round and black. And what we also make is salad with vinaigrette sauce, that is sweet sour spicy. Celery and also one makes beetroot, beetroot is very healthy. And they are also washed and cooked in salt and water and of course with sugar, vinegar, and pepper.

giulia: Why is it healthy?

ilona: Yes, for blood, hematopoiesis. One ha salso to read this again but I now from granny and my mom that this is healty.

giulia: Is there a tradition for vegetables in berlin?

ilona: Yes, pumpkin for example exactly, for soups, for kompottes, it is boiled down…

giulia: Kompotte?

ilona: Yes it’s called kompotte. Chopped Pumpkin , for dessert  or one can eat it with meat dishes or the pumpkin soup as appetizer, it’s very good. I give you my book as a present, here you see some dishes...

giulia: What is from you?

ilona: A lot, there is my name here, but these are collected recipes, that one can make also at home. For example  stuffed zucchini are made a lot, or vegetables onions, vegetable cake, stuffed kohlrabi...

giulia: Thank you very much!

ilona: Yes, with pleasure!

Super healthy recipe | Cauliflower, sparrow-grass or broccoli

"The asparagus time is always just until June, end of April until june. But asparagus is difficult to grow, just a few gardners do it. Broccoli and cauliflower are the easiest."

Ilona Groß, Waldland, Bezirksverband der Gartenfreunde Berlin-Treptow e.V.

Kohlrabi Eintopf suggested by Irene Elß

guten appetit!

Today we cook turkish Poça!

Grünen bohnen suppe

a recipe by Ilona Groß

Susi Butscher | Ton Steine Gaerten

Gayle going to Ton Steine garden

Susi, Gayle and Giulia

It was like the first summer last year so it was like making our experiences. They started out last year around this time, I think I joined in April. I saw the garden, then in March I asked to participate and they had a little plot for me.  Mine is the one on the corner with the table.

Allotments at Ton Steine garden

Now we are full, there’s no free plots left and but in the beginning it was like whoever came just like they should accept that it is more of a group things than an individual, like ‘Its my land and I will not talk to anybody.’ So it’s a really mixed group, a really mixed group, we didn’t expect it to be like this.

Turkish people, because a lot of Turkish people live here, but like even old Turkish people who do not speak a lot of German, and some, I don’t know where in Africa, but some. The Turkish women always have a Samovar and during the summer time they make like a picnic and serve tea to the others.

There’s one Turkish thing, I dont know the name, because its like kohl, cauliflower, but its only the leaf, not the whole head, that’s something that is typically Turkish and they are happy because that is something that you cannot buy here. But then there’s one of the African guys, then he was really happy too because he knew the same plant.  So they are connecting in some way. They make like what you usually make with vine leaves, but they do not take the vine leaves, but this thing.

Gayle and Susi talking

Different ways of fencing

the Turkish corner

However we didn’t expect it to be like this much, because we had these tomatoes there by the corner of the side walk and they were like phswww, gone, so well the local government did not want us to put fences because they say it’s a public space.  But still we want it for the dogs because the dogs come, you know people walk with their dogs, the dogs run in, so I think we will work on this, so at least we have a little door so that the dogs cannot come in.

Ton Steine overview

   

There’s a Spanish girl who asked to put a recipe on the wall, and its what we did, and we cooked this recipe.  She says that she did this all over the world, especially to make people, when there are ethnic tensions, to make people think, to make people more in contact with other ethnics.  The ingredients were grown from here, but we do not have eggplants.


http://gaerten-am-mariannenplatz.blogspot.com/ 

the recipe