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Mission: Nature On Your Doorstep

The city needs more gardens — urban gardening in Berlin

What was once a gloomy parking lot is now a green oasis in the middle of the German capital, Berlin. The "Prinzessinnengarten" (princesses' garden) has become one of the best-known urban gardening projects in Europe. Neighborhood city gardening is on trend and in the last few years pretty plots have been sprouting like mushrooms from the earth.

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