Event schedule

The regular weekly programme:

• Tuesdays, 2 - 6 pm: Open gardening time
• Every Tuesday from 2 pm: Open forest garden team meeting
• Wednesdays, 10 am - 12 pm: Knitting café for everyone!
• Thursdays, 2 - 6 pm: Open gardening time

Events until the summer holidays:

• From 19.05. every 2 weeks, 3 - 4 pm: App through the botany - Recording and mapping our plants and insects in the forest garden
• From 12.06. every 2 weeks, 11 am - 2 pm: Lunch in the garden - Relaxed lunch break with coffee and tea in the Bright Oasis. Sit, chat, get to know each other, eat the food you've brought yourself and recharge your batteries for the afternoon! Open for everyone!

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Arson in the Community garden

We need your help!

Unbelievably, in the early hours of 11 April, our Tiny House in the Hellen Oase burnt down completely. The police and we cannot rule out arson. Anyone familiar with our community garden will know that this was the centrepiece of our shared gardening adventure, with a kitchen, chooks and seed store. There is nothing left of the contents except the skeleton of the coffee machine, fridge and oven. We are completely devastated and face the great challenge of having the remains professionally removed and somehow building something new. At this point we need your support! We have launched a fundraising campaign via Gofundme and ask you, if you can, to make a small or large donation to help us dispose of the ruins of the fire:

Please support us via the following link: Go Fund Me

The Helle Oase community garden at Tangermünder Straüe 127-129 has been in existence since 2012, when the KIDS & CO association began a large-scale cooperation project to turn the derelict site into what it is today in a participatory process with residents and young people from various organisations. In addition to the community garden, we built a children's playground and small sports facilities. The latest project is a forest garden that is being created on the site. Over the years, many parties, workshops, family celebrations and hiking days have taken place. The Tiny House, which has now been burnt down, was built in summer 2021 with interested parties from all over Berlin. All events, projects and materials are funded by grants and donations. As far as possible, the offers are free of charge for the users in order to enable participation for everyone. In this way, we have succeeded and continue to succeed in reaching a wide variety of people and bringing them into contact with each other. We see ourselves as a place of neighbourhood and a free space for engagement.

We hope that you can support us in this difficult situation and thank you very much for your efforts!

Forests for Hellersdorf

duration: 30.05.2024 UNTIL 31.05.2027

Together, we are creating climate islands in the district to make our neighbourhood more liveable and lovable. To do this, we plant small forests that provide us with better air, shade, pleasant temperatures even in midsummer, fresh air and a cosy atmosphere.

Everyone can join in and transform our meadow orchard into a productive edible forest garden. Fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs and vegetables alternate here and produce apples, plums, mulberries, potatoes, cabbage, herbs and much more in a small space. The challenge? Our soil. We work on concrete gravel. A challenge? Yes. An obstacle? No. A new field for research and experimentation? By all means! Be part of it, join in and observe with us whether and how nature copes with this extreme urban problem.

Similar problems, but a different solution: we plant a nano-forest in the neighbourhood. On 50 to 100 square metres, a dense, site-specific, species-rich mini forest is being created that purifies our air and provides a home for animals and plants. Here, too, we are happy to welcome people who want to accompany and support us. Get in touch with us, because there is a lot to do!

„Forests for Hellersdorf“ is financed with funds from the Lotto Foundation Berlin.