Prinzessinnengarten Jacobi
Collective community garden of raised beds grown on the grounds of a former cemetery.
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This guide to Prinzessinnengarten Jacobi in Berlin traces the community garden from its 2009 start on a bombed-out lot near Moritzplatz, where gardeners deliberately grew everything in crates and sacks so the whole project could be lifted and carried off on short notice. You'll hear about the 2012 fight when the city tried to sell that land to investors, and how the argument over one vacant lot became a citywide debate about who decides what happens to empty ground in a gentrifying Berlin. It follows the founding collective's move to this former cemetery, where the raised beds now stand.
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