Urban farming in Germany
12 citizen-driven urban farms recorded in Germany. Each entry documents who runs it, how the land is held, and where the information came from — nothing is listed without a source.
Prinzessinnengärten
DEBerlin, Germany
A mobile community garden reviving a vacant lot in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Its DIY container growing and composting made it a flagship example of reusing idle urban land through citizen participation.
prinzessinnengarten.net+2
Andernach – The Edible City
DEアンダーナッハ / Andernach, Germany
A unique German city-led project that replaced ornamental flowerbeds with edible crops in public space, free for citizens to harvest. Spanning ~8,000 sqm in the city center plus 13 ha in the suburbs, it is internationally known as multifunctional productive green infrastructure delivering food supply, biodiversity, social cohesion and education at once.
use.metropolis.org+2
Allmende-Kontor Community Garden (Tempelhofer Feld)
DEBerlin, Germany
One of Germany's largest community gardens, created on Berlin's iconic former airport field, Tempelhofer Feld. Cultivating public open space with movable raised beds, it embodies the idea of the urban commons (Allmende) and doubles as a knowledge and networking hub for urban gardening.
allmende-kontor.de+1
himmelbeet Community Garden
DEBerlin, Germany
A flagship community garden in Berlin's Wedding district. Forced to leave its original site to make way for a football education centre, it relocated after a citizens' campaign to a permanent site on Gartenstraße in late 2021. Combining gardening, a café and education programmes, it is a hub for urban greenery and social inclusion.
himmelbeet.de+4
GemüseAckerdemie (Acker e.V. School Garden Program)
DEBerlin (nationwide), Germany
A German education program built on the idea that the field is the best classroom, fostering children's understanding of food and nature through school gardens. Its hands-on curriculum, cultivating a corner of the schoolyard or school grounds, builds appreciation of food, healthy eating and awareness of food waste. It has grown into the largest school-garden network in the German-speaking world.
gemueseackerdemie.de+2
Infarm
DEBerlin, Germany
A Berlin-founded firm that raised over $500M to become Europe's largest urban vertical farmer; after mass layoffs and insolvencies in 2022–2023 it retreated from Europe.
sifted.eu+1
Rosa Rose Garten
DEBerlin, Germany
A neighborhood garden that lost its original site to an investor's apartment plans.
rosarose-garten.net+1
Klunkerkranich Berlin Rooftop Farm
DEBerlin, Germany
Berlin's highest urban gardening project located on the rooftop of Neukölln Arkaden shopping centre. Features herb and coloring plant cultivation, with guided tours and garden experiences for visitors.
cityfarmer.info+1
Allmende Kontor Berlin
DEBerlin, Germany
Community-operated gardens on the former Templehof airport grounds in Berlin. Produces vegetables and fruits, hosts educational workshops, and serves as a community meeting space. Exemplary resident-led urban farming
foodtank.com
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Mauergarten Berlin
DEBerlin, Germany
Intercultural community garden with 50+ raised beds in Berlin. Open to residents of diverse cultural backgrounds. Functions as a space for cultural exchange and community activities
cityfarmer.info
Internationale Gärten Göttingen (intercultural gardens)
DEGöttingen, Germany
A garden started in 1996 in the Geismar district of Göttingen, Germany, by immigrant non-German families, and constituted in 1998 as the association Internationale Gärten e.V. Göttingen. Its distinguishing move was to translate the ideas of intercultural learning, international understanding and integration into a place where people work the soil and grow vegetables together, and it became the starting point for the form known in German-speaking countries as interkulturelle Gärten.
de.wikipedia.org
Stadtgarten Connewitz, Leipzig
DELeipzig, Germany
A 4,300 m² garden in the middle of Leipzig's Connewitz district. The environmental NGO Ökolöwe opened it in 1994 and has run it as a community garden since 2017. More than 25 residents grow vegetables, fruit, mushrooms and herbs together, and the site doubles as a demonstration garden open to the public, with interpretive panels and nature modules and a year-round programme of free courses on balcony planting, wild herbs and a seed library.
oekoloewe.de+1
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