Blooming flowers, lush lettuce, ripe strawberries and the first red tomatoes... Now is the best time of the year for gardeners.So it's fitting that the Himmelbeet has just started to put down new roots in Gartenstrasse.The community garden will reopen on Saturday (June 18) with a small party for everyone.A sea of ​​freshly made raised beds stands on Gartenstraße, directly behind the Liesenbrücken.Bark mulch is spread all over the ground, a wood-clad wagon is parked on the railway embankment.A construction fence protects wheelbarrows, pallet wood, boxes with plant labels and some large boxes with young plants.For a long time, passers-by have been able to observe that something new is being created on the triangular green area with the small and mostly unused playground.The community garden team is speeding up the construction so that as much as possible can be completed before the opening ceremony.Moving an entire garden is time-consuming and the community garden is still not what it should be."We're making good progress, but there's still so much to build up!" says Maria Stieger from Himmelbeet.As for the raised beds, she was optimistic just before the opening.There will be around 200 beds at the new location.They are given to tenants, but there are also ten free beds for clubs and also the so-called Kiezblock beds.In them, everyone from the neighborhood can garden together at any time."There will be the diversity corner, there our stone oven, the toilets and storage areas," says Maria Stieger, pointing to the different areas.A stage and the multi-award-winning low-packaging café with terrace are also to be built again.However, visitors have to wait a little longer for the café – for example, the water connection is still missing.In order to finance it and other necessary connections, the Himmelbeet continues to collect money via crowdfunding (link to fundraising on Gofundme).However, the Himmelbeet did not move to Gartenstrasse entirely voluntarily.The garden project has completed a short round trip through Wedding before it has now arrived on the municipal green space.The garden project started as a roof garden idea, hence the name.The garden was originally supposed to be created in 2012 on an unused parking deck of the Schillerpark Center on Müllerstraße.At that time, the project did not go beyond a few test beds on the roof.The sky bed ultimately failed due to structural problems.At the time, it was said that the beds were said to have been too heavy for the statics of the house.In 2013, the district provided the project with an area in the Ruheplatzstraße at Leopoldplatz for temporary use.This interim solution lasted almost ten years and the garden project found many supporters and fellow gardeners at Leopoldplatz (article More than a garden: That is urban nature!).1700 square meters were available, with space for over 350 raised beds.Now a football training center is to be built on the area in the Ruheplatzstraße, the building permit for the so-called Safe-Hub has just been granted (see the sports article written in smaller letters).The garden had to go at the end of last season.The search for a replacement area took a long time and was exhausting for the community garden collective, which is organized as a gGmbH.The area on Gartenstrasse only came into play last year, and the garden was relocated shortly before the end of the year.Now the team has 1400 square meters for gardening, for neighborly exchange and workshops.The community gardeners make the best of the situation and use the involuntary move to further develop one of the topics that has become increasingly important to them in recent years.“Now we have the chance to start all over again.We're using the restart to become even more inclusive," says Maria Stieger.A better ramp to the terrace and raised beds that can be driven under are part of the new sky bed, for example.Inclusion is particularly important to the team.For example, the Tuml Group, a project by and with people with/without disabilities, has existed for a number of years.The group has already published a very nice book about gardening in the city - in easy language.The second book is due to appear in the fall and is about climate protection.At the opening ceremony, there will already be a reading of some excerpts from "Climate Protection for Every Day".The opening party will take place on Saturday (June 18) between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.The program:The team points out that the project is currently still under construction.Unfortunately, there are currently no accessible toilets on the site.From the opening there will be daily opening hours in the garden, which are approximately from 10am to 8pm (to be specified and corrected here if necessary).In this first season at the corner of Gartenstraße and Grenzstraße there will already be a number of workshops, for example a mosaic or plant color workshop.Workshops on gardening topics are also planned and will be published on the website.Participation days always take place on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. and initially also on Saturdays (12 p.m. to 6 p.m.).Helpers are very welcome.Currently there are also some leased beds and also free ones for social clubs for this season.Interested parties can contact us directly in the garden or by email: [email protected] .Current dates and further information are available online at www.himmelbeet.de.The area in Gartenstraße is now the new headquarters of the garden collective.In one of the two construction containers in front of the area, an office is to be built later, where the various projects are to be coordinated and managed.In the meantime, the team has become active in other areas.It currently runs the ElisaBeet community garden in Soldiner Kiez (Contribution to the ElisaBeet plan: sunny meadow and vegetable garden).The team also uses its expertise to support the municipal housing company degewo in founding residential gardens throughout the city.In the Haus der Lebenshilfe am Dohnagestell, gardening is done communally and inclusively with the help of the sky bed.Further projects are in preparation.The Weddingweiser has reported regularly about the Himmelbeet since 2012.The posts can be found here: all Himmelbeet postsDominique Hensel lives and writes in Wedding.Every second Sunday she gives the news overview for the district here.The trained journalist likes to write current texts for the blog - preferably on the topics of city gardens, culture, neighborhood and social issues.Dominique definitely prefers hyperlocal and she's almost always been to the Weddingweiser.Your email address will not be published.Notify me of follow-up comments via email.Notify me of new posts via email.This website uses Akismet to reduce spam.Learn more about how your comment data is processed.