Permaculture, DIY and allotment garden help in Berlin, Germany

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  Beschreibung

  Hi, my name is Kai.
  Two very defining things about me are that I am a long-time traveller and a Permaculturist.
  I started travelling in 2004 and have visited close to 50 countries, spending more than 10 years abroad. I discovered permaculture while travelling in Thailand in 2011, and since then, Permaculture design has become my focus of interest.
  While travelling, I volunteered for multiple projects in different countries.
  Between 2008 and 2023, I have worked as a permaculture designer, consultant, educator and builder in Berlin.
  Last year, I started studying landscape architecture at TU Berlin.
  
  I am trying to live life in the most ethical way I can. I have lived vegan for more than 5 years and was a vegetarian for 10 years before that, and a conscious consumer long before that.
  
  While I am in Berlin, I enjoy spending time in my allotment garden (only 10 minutes bike ride from Tempelhofer Feld) but I also really like to explore the city day and night and I do so as much as I can. I always look for the next rave and open-air or awesome party with great electronic music. If you are into that, great! I am always looking for more people to go out with ;););)
  
  My little house, about 35m2, has a composting toilet and a tiny shower. All grey water is reused in the garden, and during the warm weather season, a lot of food comes straight from the garden.
  I have been developing the 400m2 plot for 6 years into a fertile and productive small urban food forest/permaculture garden. Naturally, there are always lots of things to do and improve...
  
  I can usually only host people during the warm months of the year and only short-term since allotment gardens are quite regulated. The reconstruction of the house is not finished, and I have no idea when and if it will ;) but there is either an extra sleeping couch in the house or all the needed camping gear, tents and bedding available.
  
  Beyond this, (especially if you reside in Berlin) I can offer the space, my knowledge and skills and hands-on experiences or just some garden chats and sure enough, vegan garden lunches ;) during the day.
  
  This year (2025), I have another place with an extra room for hosting. It's a house and garden in the suburbs about 45min by public transport from the city centre near U- Alt Mariendorf.
  
  I dream of, co-creating a permaculture education and entrepreneurship community/ impact hub in a more suitable warmer climate compared to northern Europe to develop and teach the necessary skills to live self-reliant and sustainably and to figure out and spread better, more just ways of integrating humans in the larger community of life on earth - if that sounds like your calling we should get in touch to make it happen ;)
  
  veganism - permaculture design - sponge-city - swales - regenerative agriculture - syntropic farming - soil building - ecology

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  Arten von Hilfe und Lernmöglichkeiten

  Gartenarbeiten

  Heimwerker- und Bauarbeiten

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  Interessengebiete

  

  Outdoor-Aktivitäten

  

  Tanzen

  

  Camping

  

  Fitness

  

  Natur

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Tischlerarbeiten

  

  Schreiben

  

  Fotografie

  

  Sprachen

  

  Gartenarbeiten

  

  Kochen & Backen

  

  Architektur

  

  Kunst & Design

  

  Bücher

  

  Heimwerken & DIY

  

  Musik

  

  Gärtnern

  

  Politik & Soziales

  

  Kultur

  

  Selbstentwicklung

  

  Vegetarier / Veganer

  

  Nachhaltigkeit

  

  Radfahren
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  UNO-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung, die dieser Gastgeber verfolgt

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  Was ist das?
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  Kultureller Austausch und Lernmöglichkeiten

  travel experiences, my permaculture knowledge and skills,
  nightlife and subculture stuff, I know and go to
  from being vegan,
  living of the land
  and knowing nice spots to hang and experience the city and beyond

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  Arbeit

  This and next year aside from maintaining a productive garden and maintaining the household and daily vegan cooking, I will spend some time with DIY building projects around the house and garden.
  
  The lists of construction and garden projects are long, so there is always something to do.
  
  The most important support that I need is sharing the day-to-day responsibilities of the house and garden.
  Such as watering plants, maintaining the household, harvesting and preparing meals etc.
  
  If you are excited to learn and improve your knowledge on a broad scale of tasks around living a self-responsible and self-reliant lifestyle, especially about permaculture design thinking and living then you'll have the perfect mindset
  and I am happy to share my skills and knowledge about each of them!
  
  ...more hands, hearts and minds are needed and wanted ;)

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  Gesprochene Sprachen

  Deutsch: Fließend
  Englisch: Fließend

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  Unterkunft

  The small 35m2 basic garden house is all one-room. There is still a lot of work to do in and around the house, so it could look definitely much prettier but there hasn't been enough time and energy yet...
  
  There is a dry composting toilet in the garden and a simple mobile bucket shower bath with about 20l of warm water for each shower that can be used either inside or outside depending on the weather. There is a sink inside and outside.
  
  For sleeping there is a tent, a mattress, blankets and pillows to sleep in the garden alternatively there is an extra sleeping couch in the house.
  
  It is a vegan home/ garden and I ask anybody (friends and family) not to bring non-vegan food or drinks here.
  So there will only be vegan stuff here. ;) peace!
  
  Much of the food we will have here is organic and during the growing season, much of it will come directly from the garden.
  
  This year (2025), I live in a house and garden in the suburbs about 45min by public transport from the city centre near U- Alt Mariendorf. There is at least one spare room.
  
  Also, if you are looking for longer stays, I am looking for flatmates as well!

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  Was noch ...

  My favourite place and area in Berlin is just a 10 minute bike ride away, Tempelhofer Feld - the former airport that now is the largest inner city park of Europe and the bordering neighbourhoods of Neukölln with their colourful and bustling nightlife.
  Just a little further you get to borough Kreuzberg that together with borough Neukölln are the most happening subcultural places in Berlin or in Germany really.
  The is also a bus stop 170 & 277 & N77 just 3 minutes on foot and 8 minutes on foot to the subway U6. I'll have one spare bike that I can lend you so you are flexible to explore the city.

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  Platz zum Abstellen von Camper Vans

  ordinary city street parking and private drive-in parking. Small vans are most suitable. Large RVs won't work.

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