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Programme nearbyFood & GardenFrankfurt

Visit Rhine-Main organic farms this harvest wee in Frankfurt

Visit Rhine-Main organic farms this harvest wee in Frankfurt Dottenfelderhof in Bad Vilbel, Querbeet's Pappelhof in Reichelsheim, and Die Kooperative's Cityfarm in Oberrad open for Foodtura: apple pressing, potato digging, a hen walk, a farm festival, and a free family Sunday with a Schnippelparty in Frankfurt. What you can do - Press juice at the Jahreszeitenwerkstatt (19 September) - Dig your own potatoes at Pappelhof - Meet the hens or join the free Hoffest at Dottenfelderhof - Close the festival at the Familiensonntag on the Cityfarm (free) - Book the Farm to Table dinner at Tonka if you want a long table of Cityfarm vegetables How it works Farm days list prices and booking links on each page. The Hoffest and Familiensonntag are free drop-in. Wear shoes you can get dirty. Why it matters Seeing soil, animals, and harvest in the same week as city kitchens makes regional food feel real.
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Programme nearbyRewildingFrankfurt

Photograph insects for Frankfurt biodiversity research

Photograph insects for Frankfurt biodiversity research Frankfurt's Umweltamt supports SLInBio (Städtische Lebensstile und die Inwertsetzung von Biodiversität): researchers from Senckenberg, Goethe University, and neighbourhood partners study how everyday city life connects to insect diversity. Residents can join by uploading insect photos to the Insekten Hessen reporting portal. What you can do - Photograph bees, butterflies, or beetles in your garden, balcony, or park (no faces needed) - Upload sightings through the Insekten Hessen meldeportal - Follow project updates on insektenvielfalt-frankfurt.org and join open events when listed - Visit the Insect Embassy art installation by ISOE and HfG Offenbach to learn why urban insects matter How it works Scientists use crowd-sourced images to map distribution and population trends across Hesse. SLInBio links the data to questions about urban lifestyles, green yards, and shared stewardship with NABU Frankfurt, BioFrankfurt, and the Palmengarten. Why it matters Insects pollinate food, recycle nutrients, and signal healthy neighbourhoods. A few phone photos from many streets beat a lone expert survey.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenCologne

Get a Biotonne: close the compost loop in Cologne

Get a Biotonne: close the compost loop in Cologne About 40% of what lands in the grey residual bin is compostable organic waste. In Niehl it is burned: costing money, CO₂, and fertile matter that could return to parks and gardens as torffreier Kölner Kompost. What you can do - Ask your landlord for the free brown Biotonne (tenants can use Zero Waste Köln’s postcard template on their project page). - Line the bin with newspaper, keep it in the shade, and skip “compostable” plastic bags: they need industrial conditions Cologne’s plants do not offer. - Buy Kölner Kompost or Blumenerde from AWB/AVG outlets (the Verein advocates more neighbourhood pick-up points). Why it matters Separate bio collection has been mandatory in Germany since 2015, but Cologne households still need to request the bin. Less bio in residual waste can mean a smaller (cheaper) grey bin.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenBerlin

Care for historic parks and gardens in Berlin

Care for historic parks and gardens in Berlin The Internationale Jugendbauhütte Gartendenkmalpflege puts volunteers into historic parks across Brandenburg, Berlin, Sachsen, and beyond. Heart of the hut is Schlosspark Altdöbern, a baroque and landscape park where teams live and work together on axes, trees, and garden fabric. What you can do - Read the Gartendenkmalpflege hut page - Apply through Jugendbauhütten Bewerben and select historic parks and gardens when asked for placement wishes - On Open Monument Day, visit garden-city or park openings such as Waldschänke Hellerau in Dresden - Learn park terms (Sichtachsen, Formbäume) in seminars that also touch clay, forge, and timber crafts How it works Volunteers work under garden and heritage tutors for a full year. Altdöbern hosts the largest team and shared housing. Other Einsatzstellen host smaller groups on project plots. Why it matters Historic parks are living climate infrastructure: shade, water, soil, and beauty. Caring for them is ecological work with a civic story.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenParis

Learn composting at Maison du Jardinage

A free compost classroom in Bercy The Maison du Jardinage et du Compostage in Parc de Bercy is Paris's hands-on hub for residents who want to compost with confidence. Two Saturdays each month, city gardeners run intro workshops on what goes in the pile, how to balance moisture, and how to use finished compost safely. What you can do - Check the monthly nature programme on paris.fr for the next atelier dates - Visit 41 rue Paul-Belmondo in the 12th arrondissement for demos and Q&A - Download the city's collective and school compost guides from the dossier page before starting your own site - Pair a workshop visit with a building campaign so référents arrive prepared How it works Workshops are free and aimed at beginners. Staff explain the three Paris pathways — collective bins, quartier sites, and lombricomposteurs — so you can pick the scale that fits your home. Why it matters Skills spread faster than brochures. One afternoon with a maître composteur can unlock years of shared soil for a whole stairwell.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenQuito

Join Quito's community compost and zero waste network

Municipal tools: neighbourhood compost Ecuador’s Alianza Basura Cero documents a growing compost network and municipal zero waste ordinances residents can advocate for locally. The alliance publishes a model ordinance and maps community compost sites, from Pomasqui and Cotacachi to neighbourhood clubs such as Club del Compost in Bellavista. What you can do - Find a mapped compostera comunitaria near you and volunteer for a work day. - Ask your parish or neighbourhood council to adopt zero-waste ordinance language from the alliance toolkit. Why it matters Community compost keeps food sovereignty and soil health local while giving municipalities a replicable legal frame, reuse included, not just collection.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenParis

Start shared composting with Paris Plan Compost

Turn food scraps into neighbourhood soil In Paris, organic waste still makes up more than 23% of what lands in the residual bin. The city's Plan Compost has supported more than 1,000 shared sites since 2010: courtyard bins, quartier composters, and individual worm boxes, all backed by maître composteur coaching. What you can do - Apply during a quarterly campaign to install a collective composter at your building or school (collective installation form) - Gather at least seven motivated households and two site référents who will attend training and keep the pile healthy - Order equipment or book a maître composteur visit through the city's online forms when campaigns are open - Join the public Composter à Paris community for tips and meet-ups How it works Copropriétés, social housing blocks, schools, and institutions with 5 m² of ground contact can host wooden 400–600 L bins. The city delivers bio-buckets, dry-matter reserves, aeration tools, and eight months of professional follow-up so the site becomes self-running. Why it matters Composting at home can cut up to 80 kg of waste per household each year while returning nutrients to balconies, courtyards, and shared beds — joy and soil, not guilt.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenSan Salvador

Grow food sovereignty through community compost in San Salvador

Gardens, organics, and mutual aid The 2025 regional chapter stresses how community compost, source segregation, recycler inclusion, and community gardens (huertos) strengthen food sovereignty in vulnerable neighbourhoods across Latin America, with San Salvador among municipalities GAIA accompanies on zero-waste pathways. What you can do - Start or join a barrio compost pile that feeds a shared garden bed. - Partner with youth groups to run organic-waste recycling workshops at schools. Why it matters When food prices rise, keeping organics in the neighbourhood loop builds soil, skills, and shared meals, not dependency on distant supply chains.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenMunich

Bring Münchner Erden home from bio-waste in Munich

Bring Münchner Erden home from bio-waste in Munich Münchner Erden turn the city's separated bio-waste into torffreie potting mixes and quality compost at the Erdenwerk Freimann in Munich. The base compost comes from AWM's dry-fermentation plant next door: regional input, regional output. What you can do - Buy sack or bulk compost at the Erdenwerk Freimann (Werner-Heisenberg-Allee 62) - Pick up Münchner Bio-Erde or Qualitätskompost at participating Wertstoffhöfe and Halle 2 in Pasing - Start or improve a home composter using AWM garden tips alongside bought soil for gaps - Order larger loose volumes or delivery through the AWM Erden service when you are renovating beds How it works AWM mixes certified compost with selected substrates on site. Products are RAL-quality oriented and marketed for gardens, balconies, and lawn repair: proof that Munich's brown bin stream returns as living soil. Why it matters Peat-free city compost keeps moors intact and closes the loop between your Biotonne and the tomatoes on your balcony.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenFlorianópolis

Include waste pickers in organic waste management

Santa Catarina leads Latin America The 2025 regional report names Florianópolis / Santa Catarina as Brazil’s, and the region’s, reference for recyclers participating in organic-waste management. Waste-picker leaders host compost tours and trainings that strengthen neighbourhood sorting and keep organics out of landfills. What you can do - Join a Brasil Composta Cultiva compost tour led by catadoras and catadores in the Florianópolis area. - Separate organics at home and coordinate with local picker cooperatives on collection routes. Why it matters When recyclers co-manage organics, methane falls and livelihoods rise, a replicable model the report highlights as a top 2024 success across Latin America.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenFrankfurt

Garden courtyards with Klimawerkstatt Ginnheim in Frankfurt

Garden courtyards with Klimawerkstatt Ginnheim in Frankfurt In Ginnheim, Klimawerkstatt and the Ginnheimer Kirchplatzgärtchen turn courtyards, roofs, and the church square into food and shade in Frankfurt. During Foodtura they host a courtyard walk and a bring-and-share picnic between the baroque church and Gasthaus Adler. What you can do - Walk the Hinterhofhimbeeren & Fassadenwein tour on 19 September (free) - Bring a homemade dish to the Stadtteil Picknick the same afternoon - Email kirchplatzgaertchen@posteo.de if you want to help tend beds after the festival - Follow Klimawerkstatt on Instagram for later dates How it works The garden is a neighbourhood project, not a ticketed farm. Show up, share food, and ask how to join watering and planting rounds. Why it matters Edible courtyards cool streets, feed pollinators, and give a village square a reason to linger.
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Programme nearbyFood & GardenBerlin

Neighbourhood compost with Kiez-Kompost in Berlin

Neighbourhood compost with Kiez-Kompost in Berlin Kiez-Kompost builds neighbourhood-scale composting for housing estates, garden clubs, urban farms, and solidarische Landwirtschaft projects in Berlin. Their bioreactor process keeps organic matter local and aims for humus-rich compost without industrial peat from drained moors. What you can do - Contact the team via kiez-kompost.de to ask about a neighborhood composter for your courtyard or garden association - Partner as an urban gardening or Solawi project that needs finished compost returned to beds - Follow their RBB Gartenzeit feature and Instagram for build updates while the venture scales - Start small: one shared bin plus clear rotation rules beats waiting for a perfect site How it works Kiez-Kompost is in an active launch phase: offerings evolve quickly. Reach out by email or the site contact form; they reply with project fit, bioreactor sizing, and neighbour onboarding steps. Why it matters Berlin loses fertile soil to bagged shop compost and long transport chains. Ortsnahe Kreisläufe keep carbon and nutrients in the neighborhood where people grow food together.
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