Plant, Pick & Eat it

Is gardening an adventure? Yes! Especially when you start gardening with your neighbors who you don‘t know and who hardly have any skills in gardening. From your window you see the spot, where things start to happen: an urban paltry square of grass, not even worth to notice. Will it work out? While digging in the soil and sowing the first seeds into the freshly made vegetable patches you get to know your neighbors and wonder, why on earth you never talked to them before: They share sun lotion with you on hot, sunny days, you puzzle with them about a berry that might be a chili and at the end of the day you enjoy a perfect summer party with everyone on the formal ugly grass spot which now is a wonderful, public vegetable garden. No enemies ahead! Sorry, well, there are troubles and they are very bureaucratic. But are they bigger than everything that has grown in the garden?
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Just a short step into the garden but a yummy leap towards urban food security! Community gardening can change the people‘s minds and perspectives. It is a delightful way to get in touch with nature, to meet new friends and to harvest the base of life in the centre of the city: food. We follow a group of neighbors in Germany who successfully turn a public and paltry grassed area in front of their homes into a wonderful vegetable garden. As their garden grows, friendships develop and the neighbors learn more than they had ever expected. But the local authorities want to stop them although this new city attraction is a big success. Giving up is not an option and the neighbors face the challenges: urban gardening turns into a social and political activity.