Urban Gardening and the Garden as a Social Projection
How much garden does a person need? This is the title of a book by Ingrid Greisenegger from the early 2000s. The answer is: as much as possible, as she demonstrates with concrete examples, starting after World War II, when people transitioned from potato cultivation to representative gardens modeled after Hollywood, with thuja hedges. With the "Urban Gardening" movement, which she has been covering journalistically since the 1990s, the garden - both private and public - has become a projection of socio-political developments ("Politics on the Plate"). An example of active implementation is the "City Farm Augarten" in Vienna, a garden education center where alternative, climate-compatible forms of agriculture are practiced and taught in workshops, including "Snow Food", winter fresh vegetables that can be harvested in winter without wasting heating and lighting energy.
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