From dreams to deeds

How the garden is turning slowly to an eden garden with a lot of vegetables, such as tomatoes, zucchini, pumpkins, beans, green beans, potatoes, eggplants, peppers, paprika, radishes, cabbages, and also special Surinam vegetables.

© Henriette Waal


© Henriette Waal

Step 1.
The garden was empty and we devided it in pixels of 1 square meter each.
Each square meter costs 1 euro and residents can buy how many they wish.
Contract says that 50% of the harvest goes to the kitchen for collective initiatives.
Individual adults, group of kids, families are now involved in the garden.
Vegetables gardens amount to 30 units.

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

Step 2.
Saturday 2 May 2009, from 10.00 am onwards, we prepared the soil with residents
who applied for a pixel in the KKVB garden.
We digged the ground, we thought about what to plant.
We fenced the single vegetable gardens.
Praktijk school helped us a lot and planted themselves beans!
For more information and to get a pixel, contact Henriette Waal (stadskweker@gmail.com).


© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

Step 3.
What we see now is a rich and blossomed garden
around which a nice community shaped up.
We hope for a long life!

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal

© Henriette Waal