Urban Gardening & Farming in the North of Vienna

Urban Gardening & Farmingin the North of Vienna

21st District, Vienna: FloridsdorfFloridsdorf is one of two Viennese districts that are located „beyond the Danube“.

Die Grünen Floridsdorf, Gabriele Tupy 12.10.2013

21st District, Vienna: Floridsdorf• Area: 44.4 km² • Inhabitants: c. 146,000• A „peri-urban“ district • Grown together from 5

formerly independent villages - Jedlersdorf, Jedlesee, Leopoldau, Stammersdorf, Strebersdorf - and parts founded in the 18th (Floridsdorf “Am Spitz”) and 19th (Donaufeld) centrury.


21st District, Vienna: Floridsdorf• More than 1/4 of the area

are farms (including wineyards) and fields

• About 1/7 of the district area is used by individual home gardens

• c. 4 km² commercial and industrial areas

• c. 4 km² of greenery residences


21st District, Vienna: Floridsdorf

• c. 40% of the surface are green areas

• c. 10 km² are used for agriculture

• c. 3 km² individual home gardens

• c. 2.6 km² wineyards• c. 2.5 km² woods• c. 1.5 km² water surface


21st District, Vienna: Floridsdorf• Located at the

periphery of Vienna, Floridsdorf is predestinated for urban gardening & farming projects.

• The first urban gardening project started in 2006.


Community Garden „The Field“

Community Garden “The Field” in the Donaufelder Strasse: 3,000 m², about 30 people. In 2006 a former fallow was leased from private individuals for gardening and relaxing. The vegetable beds are managed by individuals.


Intercultural Garden „Bruno Kreisky House“

There is gardening in the courtyard of the Bruno Kreisky House, a home for asylum seekers in Floridsdorf, since spring 2009. Raised beds and flowerbeds were built there. The beds are managed by families, individuals and children. Now a wall greening is planned with edible climbing plants.


Intercultural neighbourhood garden Roda-Roda-Gasse

The first intercultural neighbourhood garden in a “Gemeindebau” (council flat estate) in Vienna-Strebersdorf started in 2009. People built the garden and share it. The Aim is to produce a free space for intercultural dialogue and collaborative work: When working with soil and plants, new roots in a foreign land can grow.


Community garden refugee camp Winkeläckerweg

In the refugee camp Winkeläckerweg about 150 people live, mainly families with their children. The conditions in the home are very cramped. Around the refugee camp there is a 2,000 m² green area, 500 m² are used as a community garden since spring 2010. A part is reserved for children. The children won the 2010 "Junior City Farming“ award.


Mobile neighborhood garden Adolf-Loos-Gasse

On the initiative of a resident, the idea of a little garden for children arose in 2009, later it became a neighborhood garden. With the support of the “Gartenpolylog” association, five mobile beds were built up in July 2011. The residents were accompanied for 10 weeks with professional support and advice.


Self-harvesting project eco-harvest land

In 2011, the Central Association of the garden plot holders established (on a total area of 15,000 m²) the eco-harvest land, a self-harvesting project south of Gerasdorfer Strasse.128 people can manage a bit of green here. The plots have a size of about 115 m² and are partly planted with vegetables and berry bushes (one season at a price of € 200, -)


Unused farmland occupiedIn 2012 and 2013, the initiative „Solidary Agriculture“ (abbreviation: SoliLa!) occupied some farm land in Floridsdorf, which was not cultivated or used in another way for years. The occupiers criticized that it is absurd in times of „peak oil“ and „peak soil“ to use fertile land for building purposes and required food sovereignty.


Neighbourhood garden Brossmannplatz

The garden was installed by the “Gebietsbetreuung Floridsdorf” and opened 2013. With 22 beds, each 10 m², one community bed and two raised beds for persons with mobility restrictions, the garden offers 34 people close to their homes the opportunity to grow their own organic vegetables or create flowerbeds. Included: a nearby Kindergarden and Mobile Youth Work.


Common Agriculture“Wild Arugula” (“Wilde Rauke”)

The Beginning


The Beginning

• Green Information Event on 28th of March 2012:„Community Supported Agriculture Gärtnerhof Ochsenherz“ (Lower Austria)

• Club Foundation May 2012• Search for an agricultural land

April 2012 – April 2013• Setting up infrastructure

April 2013 – work in progress


The Field


The Vision• Common Agriculture• Orchard, vegetables, herbs• Cooperation with an organic farm• Open Garden – socio-political project• Food sovereignty• High Biodiversity• Climate protection• Social inclusion


Some impressions


Some impressions


Some impressions


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Urban Gardening & Farming in the North of Vienna