Permaculture, DIY and allotment garden help in Berlin, Germany

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  2025 

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  • Description

    Description

    Hi, my name is Kai.
    Two very defining things about me are, that I am a long-time traveller, I started travelling in 2004 and have been visiting close to 50 countries so far with more than 10 years spent abroad, and that I am a Permaculturist. I discovered permaculture while travelling in Thailand and have volunteered in many places for years
    Between 2008 and 2023 I have been working as a permaculture designer, consultant, educator and builder.
    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 been vegan for more than 5 years and have been vegetarian for 10 years before that and a conscious consumer even longer than 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 no idea when and if it will ;) but there is either an extra sleeping couch in the house or there is all-needed camping gear, tents and bedding available.

    This winter, however ( 2024/2025) I have another place with an extra room for hosting.

    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.

    I dream to eventually, co-create 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

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Jardinage
    Bricolage et construction
    Aide à la maison
    Entretien général
  • Centres d’intérêt

    Centres d’intérêt

    Activités en plein air
    Danse
    Camping
    Fitness
    Nature
    Yoga / bien-être
    Menuiserie
    Écriture
    Photographie
    Langues
    Jardinage
    Cuisine et alimentation
    Architecture
    Art et design
    Livres
    Bricolage / artisanat
    Musique
    Soin des plantes
    Politique/justice sociale
    Culture
    Dev. personnel
    Végétarien ou végan
    Dev. durable
    Cyclisme
  • Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de l’ONU
    Pas de pauvreté
    Faim «zéro»
    Bonne santé et bien-être
    Éducation de qualité
    Égalité entre les sexes
    Eau propre et assainissement
    Énergie propre et d'un coût abordable
    Travail décent et croissance économique
    Industrie, innovation et infrastructure
    Inégalités réduites
    Villes et communautés durables
    Consommation et production responsables
    Mesures relatives à la lutte contre les changements climatiques
    Vie aquatique
    Vie terrestre
    Paix, justice et institutions efficaces
    Partenariats pour la réalisation des objectifs
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    from my travel experience

    from permaculture knowledge and skills

    from nightlife and subculture stuff, I know and go to

    from being vegan

    from living of the land

  • Aide

    Aide

    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 ;)

  • Langues parlées

    Anglais: Courant

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    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.

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    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.

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    I have reliable internet and places to sit...

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    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

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