Students breath life into dead city space in Copenhagen

Modern Culture student, Nina Wöhlk (right), helps a young volunteer to fill a raised garden bed with soil before planting some vegetables. Photo by Afton Halloran.

Students and local community spent the weekend turning unused urban space into an experimental garden

By Afton Halloran
University of Copenhagen Post
May 8, 2011

Excerpt:

An empty and abandoned city lot in the Copenhagen suburb of Amager may not sound that appealing to most. However, through the eyes of locals, like humanities students Majken Hviid, Nina Wöhlk, and Henriette Noermark, it is a place of huge potential.

Urban agriculture, the reclaiming of vacant city locations for farming, has come to Copenhagen. The city thereby follows a global trend, with rooftop vegetable gardens in New York and legislation recently passed in Canada re-allowing chickens in your back yard.

On 7-8 May 2011 the Copenhagen students, along with the other 12 founding members of the Prags Have project, helped bring the community together to transform an abandoned area at the end of Prags Boulevard into a beautiful community vegetable garden.

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