Danish stamps commemorate allotment gardens

Denmark has more leisure and allotment gardeners for its population than any other country. The tradition for this type of gardening dates back to the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century the aim of the leisure and allotment gardens was to secure better conditions for working people and in 1884 the first association of leisure and allotment owners was founded.

In 1908 several of the associations of leisure and allotment owners joined in Kolonihaveforbundet for Denmark (The Danish Federation of Leisure and Allotment Gardeners). In the year 2000 Kolonihaveforbundet for Denmark consisted of 409 associations with a total of more than 40,000 leisure and allotment garden owners.

See more about the gardens here.