Once I tried to cook a soup for my husband using ground elder...

Once I tried to cook a soup for my husband using ground elder. It is a very invasive plant but if you like you can eat it like spinach or put it in the tea to clean your body. However I did it when the leaves were too big and it was awful... my poor husband!

 

 

stephanie keck's plot

I think that I would not like to have a plot in another garden, because elsewhere the fences are very narrow, everybody can look at each others, everything has to be very very clean... our garden is looser. I prefer it like this.

children area

My parents got this garden when I was 4, now I am 37. We have two wonderful cherry trees some tomatoes and herbs but mainly lots of flowers. We mostly use the garden for our free time and our children love it and also we live quite near... When I was a child my mum made a lot of marmalades, now I do myself and bake apple cakes in the autumn. Besides cultivating I like to do the hard work in the garden and I prefer to do it by myself without the help of my husband as I work in social work in Neukölln and gardending for me is a way of relaxing.

POG map

In the past we had a lot of alcoholics. When I was 20 or something like that, there was an article on the “Die Spiegel” interviewing two men of the garden and in the picture they were sitting in a children’s pool drinking beer, it was very funny! Now we do not have them anymore. Many people have changed in the colony. Now we have few Turkish, some Arabs, and some homosexuals...

Stephanie Keck, German, POG, Bezirksverband Charlottenburg der Kleingärtner e.V.

http://www.wir-bleiben.de/

A day cooking with giulia and Husniye Ozturk

ton steine gaerten

not just a bench

springtime

tulips

savory

preparing the ingredients

for a Gruene Bohnen Eintopf

bohnen and onions

two of us

onions and bohnen again

overview at ton steine

some parcels

Husniye Ozturk

behind the stage

giulia and Husniye Ozturk

making a video

and waiting for the lunch

it's almost ready

last frame

Gruene Bohnen Eintopf (French Been Stew):

2 red onions, 2 tomatoes,
500 gr turkish green beens (short and flat),
oil, salt.

Clean the green beens.
cut the onion and tomatoes in cubes.
In a big plate mix onions, tomatoes and beans.
Put salt.
Put the pot on the fire and add some oil , than add the vegetables.
add hot water nd cover the pot.
cook for about 20 minutes turning sometimes the stew.

1. In a skillet over medium high heat, melt butter and add rice, stirring and cooking til golden.
2. Add soup mix, then stir in water.
3. Simmer, covered, for 20 minutes or until water is absorbed and the rice is tender.
4. Add turkey and heat through.
5. Serve, if desired, with coconut, chopped peanuts, raisins or chutney.

Prinzessinnengarten

Other students and I with my family opened this place in July 2009. I wanted to become a father and have a job where I had not to work too much and could bring my kids with me. So, after living few years in Cuba, that has a very intense model of urban agricolture, I tried to do quite the same in Berlin. We cultivate all the different kind of vegetables you find in the supermarkets, but we use organic seeds to show our children how they grow and how better they are. Then we try to have a huge variety of kind for each vegetable. So we have 15 kinds of potatoes, 20 different kinds of tomatoes, 7 different kinds of carrots, 25 different kinds of ments, and some exotic things like 6 cm long beans from Africa. Some of the old women got cultural connections growing vegetables when they where young in Russia or Turkey or somewhere else. They have brought seeds or even plants with them from there, which they knew from their past, and which they wanted to have here as kind of piece of home. Many people have Turkish, Danish, French, American, English, Palestinian, Arabic, Indian, Swedish or Iraq ancestors. We have a very open system, so you do not have to become a member to partecipate.

Robert Shaw, British-German

In Germany we are not aloud to cultivate and sell herbs for medical purpose, so we do not cultivate any kind of these but we have got some things which are more for health. If you got a cough you can take a thyme tea or we have healing plants like comfrey.

Robert Shaw, English-German

Indigenuous people use some bushes for their health, but I do not know them. The same for our Chineses immigrants that have many traditional medicines using plants. However when I am sick I take fresh honey, ginger and garlic. They make me feel better.

Emma Rugg, Australian

We have rugbrød that is a very dark bread which is very healty because it is rich in whole grain and dietary fiber and contain little or no sugar, and is thus considered by many Danes as a healthy alternative to whiter types of bread. I never tried to bake it myself because it is a very long process, but my father does and it is always nice to come home and have the homemade smørrebred.

Ida Davidsen, Dane

I could find mangos in Berlin or kiwi from New Zeland, however they are not very fresh and it's not very good for the enviroment to buy foods that have been travelling half the world. So I do not like to buy them.

Emma Rugg, Australian

There is a popular Australian story that became a cartoon where a little koala - Blinky Bill - eats leaves from eucalyptus trees and these leaves have some medicinal benefits as his appendix can neutralise the toxins of the plants.

Emma Rugg, Australian

Prinzessinnengarten

Foreign residents in Berlin 2010

berlin city map

184.702 | Sonstiges Europa

149.726 | Europäische Union

66.552  | Asien 

25.132  | Amerika
17.089  | Afrika 

12.564  | Staatenlos, ungeklärt, ohne Angabe 

2041    | Australien und Ozeanien

1. Turkey (104.556) 2. Poland (40.988) 3. Serbia (19.230) 4. Italy (15.842) 5. Russia (15.332) 6. France (13.262) 7. Vietnam (13.199) 8. the United States (12.733) 9. Bosnia and Herzegovina (10.198) 10. the United Kingdom (10.191) 11. Croatia (10.104) 12. Bulgarien (9.998) 13. Österreich (9.246) 14. Griechenland (9.301) 15. Ukraine (8.324) 16.Libanon (7.078) 17. Spanien (7.670) 18. China (5.632) 19. Thailand (5.037) 20. Rumänien (5.024) 21. Mazedonien (4.729) 22. Schweiz (4.184) 23. Niederlande (4.041)... 


http://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/

Today we cook turkish Poça!