Dates: (BY DEMAND- see below)
Time: 2-3 hour workshop + assistance when required
Location: GIDAK, Saarbrücker Str. 24, 10405 Berlin
Price: €149
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Language: English (with German explanations if needed)
Guided By: Leonie Woidt-Wallisser
Description:
Through the preparation, planting and care of your own raised bed provided for in Berlin, you will be taken though the growing seasons and learn about soil health and care, plant health and care, the influence the moon has on these, as well as providing yourselves with a one square metre harvest. This is a great way to grow your own food in the city, tap into the seasonal cycles - opening your eyes to the importance of Earth Care, interconnectedness, consumer choice, patience and to the larger, living world around you.
Included in price:
Initial information survey from me and planting plan (based on the information you provide)
Two, on-location hours of instruction (lunar planting, companion planting, soil health, composting, mulching, sowing seeds, seedlings and plants, plant care, troubleshooting etc.)
Answering any questions you have throughout the year (can also be arranged in person, on location)
Use of one of our raised beds (one square metre) for the duration of the growing season, or assistance with your own small garden location elsewhere
Seed / planting materials for a one square metre garden plot
Time suggestions: Early June for Summer plantings, or July/August for Autumn/Winter plantings, although in principle any time is possible.
These workshops are arranged by demand, on a case-by-case basis. Families, flat-mates, groups of friends etc. are encouraged to join together and receive a group discount.
Please contact workshopsber@cityplot.org for more information, and mention the workshop you are interested in the subject line.
Your Instructor:
LEONIE WOIDT-WALLISSER
Leonie has a background in architecture, the fine arts and permaculture. Since having left her family’s off-grid homestead and extensive garden in small-town South Australia, she has lived amongst the urban populations of Australia, Germany, the US and the Netherlands. Her theoretical research in restoration ecology in the cultural sector, undertaken as part of studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, triggered her to initiate Cityplot in 2007. She co-coordinates the workshop programme and gardens in Berlin.
Leonie has many years of experience teaching and consulting in multiple facets of permaculture: food growing systems; community building and social systems; architecture, urban and landscape planning; natural building and construction with upcycled materials; nature connections and spiritual ecology; holistic and regenerative practices on all levels; and beyond. Life coming full-cycle, step-by-step she nears a self-sufficient lifestyle and delves ever deeper into the worlds of ethnobotany and deep ecology.
Leonie strongly believes that there is not a problem, which cannot be solved through tapping into the heartbeat of the Earth - and that even the smallest of garden plots will help get you there!