Great work. A few links below, mainly on urban agriculture from different parts of the world. Not sure if it’s helpful but might be worth a look:
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I contacted Elisa Pfennig to fix a date for a meeting but the Berlin Greens are very busy right now, we may have to wait until November.
Today Clemens and I had a legthy and very informative and amicable talk to Ms Waschkowitz today about
- the “Edible District Pankow” (general plans and ideas)
- the plans for writing the food policy paper (what I want to do, when, who should be involved?)
- contacts into the city administration and to the Agenda 21 Council (they have a working group on food there)
- the option of getting a room in Pankow Rathaus (town hall, fancy building, prominent setting) for our big presentation (on the last weekend of November)
Results
- She shares the idea that we need a more general outlook on food policy beyond urban gardening and allotments. She immediately got the need for a circular city - food policy
- She’s very happy to support TT Pankow with further developments of both the plans and networking for the ‘Edible City’ and the food policy paper ACTION.
- She will find out if the Rathaus room is avaiblable and how much it would be if we need to pay for opening the place on the weekend (heating, caretaker). I will try to convince one of the district offices (either Environment, City Planning or Urban Green Spaces) to support our request as we could then get it for free.
- She extended our list of possible stakeholders and is very happy to help us make more contacts and spread the information. Clemens and I will get in touch with lots of people during the next days.
On the way home I met a girl who works for Pernzlauer Berg Nachrichten (local press) and let her know she should get back to me end of next week for a story. Do we have a press contacts list that I can use for advertising the event? I would like to send out a press statement and invite press people to cover the policy paper ACTION background and contents.
Projects/ people/ organisations we want to contact now:
Arbeitskreis Ernährung (Agenda 21), Stadtteilzentrum Pankow and Teutoburger Platz, (Brotfabrik and Café Impuls may also have the space we need), Grünflächenamt Pankow, Stadtgrün, Pflanzenschutzamt Berlin (plant protection office, research on plants and climate change) und Abteilung Landschaftsplanung/ Spielplätze (district offices for urban green spaces and playgrounds), Stiftung Naturschutz, Bunter Garten Buchholz, Grün macht Schule (advising on ecological school yard design), some local schools and kindergardens, Gartenarbeitsschulen (district school garden centres), Berliner Wasserbetriebe (Berlin waterworks who recycle nutrients from sewage), Wohnungsbaugesellschaften und -genossenschaften (building societies and public housing): DEGEWO (had invited urban gardening workshop), GSW (have a lot of courtyards in Pankow), GESOBAU, BBWo 1892, Wikiwoods (plant and care for trees), Lobetaler Werkstätten (social business for landscaping, ecological nursery), Delphin Werkstätten (works with handicapped, interested in planting in Bürgerpark), Grüne Liga (ecomarket, network of environmental NGOs), Stadtgut Blankenfelde (ex urban farm, alternative cohabitation project), Bürgerinitiative Thälmannpark, Bürgerinitative Bürgerpark, Permakulturakademie, stadtacker.net, KuBiZ (centre for alternative culture and education), Umweltbüro Berlin-Brandenburg (NGO), Umweltbüro Pankow, Slowfood Berlin, Gartenpaten, Selbsthilfeverein für Geringverdiener, Vivantes (Berlin hospital corporation, Maike gave an urban gardening workshop for their summer party, they have lot’s of green space), Social Seeds, KanTe , FÖJ-volunteers who work in eco-agriculture, 2000m2 …
Update 27.10.2016: Baumhaus and the CSA in Baumhaus are interested in the process. Got a reply from Elisa Pfennig offering to meet up.
Update 5.11.2016: There’s a new call for an ‘Edible City Berlin-Wedding’: http://weddingwandler.de/essbare-stadt-wedding/ contacted the person to invite them to the process
Anders and I started writing a draft for the policy paper today, based on the Kinsale Engery Descent Action Plan. Here is the first part that is ready for people to start working on: https://pad.oscedays.org/p/circular-food-policy-paper-for-berlin
IMPORTANT: Please give your name and leave your comments and reasons for changes in the chat there (right hand side).
It also includes aspects of the vision of the Berlin ‘Ernährungsrat’ which should probably be more prominent still as it’s very good (but rather abstract): http://www.ernaehrungsratschlag.de/ein-zukunftsfaehiges-ernaehrungssystem/
Hi Maike,
I worked a bit on the wiki and moved the topic to the policy 
category.
When reading it I could not quite understand what is the difference between the food policy paper ACTION & the final Policy Paper Draft. Maybe you could add some sentences as explanation to the main topic.
Excel? Yes. You can create an Excel sheet in Google Docs and share the link here. There are two ways to do it: You can just post the link into a comment or topic - this will embed the sheet into the topic and make it even editable from here! But I don’t recommend this - because this transfers a lot of data and will make older and slower computers freeze 
–> i recommend to share the link as a hidden link using this: 
I was hoping to find an open source solution instead of using google docs. If we don’t have one this may be another CHALLENGE for the future: “create an alternative to google docs”.
I started to tidy up the ACTION Protocol draft a bit, I hope by the end of next week it will become clearer what it could look like. Just doing things can be such a muddle, it’s hard to structure that for a recipe. Please help by giving feedback and suggesting changes.
Ah, forgot. The most successful topic on this forum is about an Open Source Alternative to Google Docs. Maybe you can find an answer for your question there: OwnCloud or gDocs for spreadsheets?
Thanks a lot, that was helpful.
I started to use the ethercalc https://ethercalc.org/uhnt8g5bxlc1 to illustrate my idea of the planning grid I want to use for the various stakeholders to write in their ideas and plans for the circular food system.
Got this invitation today, I’ll try to talk to them tomorrow to see how this might create synergies:
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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
wir laden Sie herzlich ein, sich an unserem Ideen-Workshop zum Thema „Nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme mitgestalten“ zu beteiligen, welcher im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes vor dem Hintergrund des Organic Food System Programme (OFSP) ausgerichtet wird. Das OFSP bringt Initiativen und Stakeholder auf unterschiedlichen lokalen, regionalen, nationalen und internationalen Ebenen zusammen, um u.a. die Entwicklung und Verbreitung von nachhaltigen Lebensmittelanbau- und Ernährungsformen im Sinne eines nachhaltigen Ernährungssystems voranzubringen.
Der Workshop in Berlin wird am 26. November 2016 stattfinden. Im Anhang finden Sie das Einladungsschreiben mit detaillierteren Informationen zur Veranstaltung und Teilnahme (auch im Flyer-Format).
Über eine Rückmeldung Ihrerseits, ob Sie an dem Workshop teilnehmen möchten oder eine Verteilung und Bekanntmachung dieses Termins in Ihrem Umfeld möglich ist, würde ich mich freuen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Leonie Fink
Universität Kassel, Ökologische Agrarwissenschaften, Fachgebiet Ökologische Lebensmittelqualität und Ernährungskultur
Einladung_Workshop_Berlin.pdf (233.9 KB)
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This is an invitation to a workshop on ‘sustainable food systems’ on the 26.11.2016 which is part of the research in the Organic Food System Programme (OFSP). It’s bringing initiatives and stakeholders of all levels together in order to promote the development and growth of an organic food system.
Just had a chat, Leonie was very open and interested. As this is part of her PhD she won’t be able to open source her process before having published the dissertation. She needs to consult her readers at the faculty before she can give a reply.
However I think that it can be beneficial for our consultation process to invite people take part in her event to help improve the brainstorming for the planning grid.
Talking to her I also realized that I need to add another column to the grid: education/ information.
translated the draft into German and contacted some more people to give feedback on the draft.
@Lars2i: I will need a text in German explaing the ACTION Protocol process for the 3 weeks in November by Monday, is that possible?
I’ll see what I can do.
In the DIF program these are connected to our circular food systems topic:
https://www.thinkdif.co/emf-stage/feeding-nine-billion
https://www.thinkdif.co/emf-stage/regenerative-cities
https://www.thinkdif.co/emf-stage/building-urban-resilience
Let’s see how we can create synergies here.
Brainstorm on a schedule for this ACTION:
7. - 11. November: Phase 1 ‘BRAINSTORMING THE CIRCULAR CITY’
Discussion on how all the information gathered here can be turned into something useful for our future work on circular food systems and edible districts in Berlin. Which process and which end product do we really need? Which ones are feasible in the given time frame (to make a start for more to come)?
Introduction to the work so far and the current situation: @transitionmaike
Place&Time: Transition Büro (Berlin-Pankow ) for one face-to-face meeting and online collaboration throughout the week. (CANCELLED due to illness)
11. - 18. November: Phase 2: ‘Creating ACTIONS’
Turn the ACTION Protocol draft on this page inside out: how can we break down the process into an ACTION Protocol? How can we describe and visualize the STEPS? Turn the draft into a helpful flow chart or toolkit.
Introduction to the ACTION Protocol idea @Lars2i??
Place&Time: Transition Büro (Berlin-Pankow ) for one face-to-face meeting and online collaboration throughout the week. (CANCELLED due to illness)
19. -26. November: Phase 3: ‘LOCAL EVENTS’
Create an open local event to celebrate the work we’ve done, network and envisage our future collaborations.
Idea for the structure of the event: a bit like sustainability drinks, maybe with a world café aspect: people show their names and projects on a sticker on their shirt, we provide four tables for each part of the circle covered with paper for taking notes and sketching (also our documentation). Baumhaus will sell drinks so the event can remain without entry fee. We provide some rescued food from local bakeries (there’s always a lot to pick up after closing time). Lars and Maike can give a PechaKucha-Introduction on the OSCE-DIF and the Action Protool Process for a Circular Food System Policy Paper. The rest is informal: anyone can sit and have a drink at any table and start talking about the subject of the evening: Where do we start together now? What do we do first?
hosts: Karen, @Lars2i, @Clemens and @transitionmaike
Place: Baumhaus, Gerichtstr. 23, Berlin-Wedding
Date: 26. November 18h
Just a comment to include into the ACTION Protocol somewhere:
Originally I thought of doing a lot more than three small events, but then I realised this is neither sustainable (personally it would wear me thin) nor resilient (if I’m too much of a leader, what will happen to the process if I can’t be around?).
p.s. on 3.11. : it’s happened: I’m ill and nothing is moving without me. Not good for the process. Result: we cancelled the first two events and will only (hopefully) be able to achieve the last one. Lesson: make sure you have more than one person responsible as core drivers.
I set up a German language closed moderated mailing list for the “Edible District Pankow” to enable direct mail communication between all the stakeholders in Berlin-Pankow without the obstacle of having to create an account here and understand how the platform works. We’ll see which one works better, but I figured mail is more common in the circles I want to include (e.g. allotment associations).
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@transitionmica This is amazing work you all are doing.
I’m a researcher living between Dublin and Berlin - and I would love to help in someway. I work on a project about food sharing (www.sharecity.ie) and am very passionate about the concept of an edible city and the commons. Would love to be involved. Skills I can offer - policy research, writing/translation, surveys, participatory mapping, interviews, facilitating focus groups, whatever makes sense.
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Hi Oona, this is fantastic news! First thing you can do to help is to go through this pile of still fairly unsorted information, give us your feedback and consider how we can improve describing the process in a step-by-step ACTION Protocol that we started above. This would be great as the ones who are inside a process are often quite unable to destill what they’re doing into a format that outsiders can follow. This is why I simply started by documenting all we 're doing here in Berlin, hoping for others to help us turn this into a guide.
If you have any best practice examples and related texts and links to share for our collection, that would also be very welcome. This way we want to help people who may have no prior knowledge get started without having to do all the research all over again.
Best, Maike
Got this invitation for a related event that Clemens and I will attend. This series is really interesting for our purposes and has good connections into research and agricultural science (e.g. effects of climate change on urban gardens, effect of changed weather patterns on soils… ) :
Sehr geehrte Gärtnerinnen und Gärtner, Garten- und Bildungsexperten, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Angehörige der Berliner Stadtverwaltung, liebe Interessierte,
hiermit laden wir Sie und Euch herzlich ein zum achten und vorerst letzten Forum Stadtgärtnern (zumindest im Rahmen des Projektes „Urbane Klimagärten: Bildungsinitiative in der Modellregion Berlin“).
Diesmal geht es um „Berlin im (Klima)Wandel - Die Bedeutung von Kleingärten und Gemeinschaftsgärten“.
Das Bildungs- und Vernetzungsforum findet am 2. Dezember 2016 in der Humboldt Graduate School in der Luisenstraße 56 in Berlin-Mitte statt. Die Einladung, das Programm und die Wegbeschreibung finden Sie im Anhang.
Direkt im Vorfeld wird es einen kleinen Workshop zu „Auf dem Weg zum Klima(schau-)garten“: Welche Fördermöglichkeiten gibt es für Gartenprojekte und Kleingärten? Worauf kommt es bei einem Förderantrag an?“ geben.
Dieser richtet sich insbesondere an alle Gärtnerinnen und Gärtner, die beispielsweise einen Klima-Schaugarten umsetzen wollen.
Die Einladung geht dieses Mal an einen weiteren Kreis von Studierenden und WissenschaftlerInnen der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, weswegen wir eine zeitnahe (verbindliche) Anmeldung empfehlen.
Eine Anmeldung ist möglich unter www.agrarberatung.hu-berlin.de/forschung/klimagaerten
Auch möchten wir Sie auf die Dokumentation bisheriger Veranstaltungen und unsere Themenblätter zum „(Stadt-)gärtnern im Klimawandel“ hinweisen, die Sie auf derselben Internetseite unter „Bildungsreihe (Stadt)gärtnern im Klimawandel“ bzw. unter „Veröffentlichungen“ einsehen und herunterladen können.
Im Anhang finden Sie außerdem die aktualisierte Veranstaltungsübersicht zum Forum Stadtgärtnern und zu Workshops im Rahmen der Bildungsreihe.
Wir würden uns freuen, Sie und Euch wieder begrüßen zu dürfen!
Freundliche Grüße
Eva Foos im Namen aller MitveranstalterInnen und UnterstützerInnen
P.S.: Wir bemühen uns Mehrfachsendungen zu vermeiden und bitten auftretende Dopplungen zu entschuldigen bzw. uns mitzuteilen.
P.P.S.: Wir haben Sie in unsere Mailingliste aufgenommen. Wir versenden darüber Veranstaltungshinweise im Rahmen des Projektes „Urbane Klimagärten: Bildungsinitiative in der Modellregion Berlin“. Wenn Sie nicht (mehr) darüber informiert werden möchten, teilen Sie uns dies bitte mit. Vielen Dank!
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Eva Foos (M. Sc. Pflanzenbauwissenschaften)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
"Urbane Klima-Gärten: eine Bildungsinitiative in der Modellregion Berlin"
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften
Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Beratung und Kommunikation
Luisenstr. 53
D-10099 Berlin
Tel.: +49-(0)30-2093-6516
Fax: +49-(0)30-2093-6512
E-Mail: eva.foos (at) agrar.hu-berlin.de
Projektseite: www.agrarberatung.hu-berlin.de/forschung/klimagaerten
Bürozeiten: in der Regel montags bis mittwochs
And @jo_stigo sent me this interesting invitation on 7. November (sadly in parallel to our launch) at the Naturkundemuseum in Berlin:
“Public Participation in Bio-Innovation”, Monday 7th November 2016, 6:30 p.m.
http://societas.biodiv.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/?q=event-bio-innovation
I got a place but won’t be able to go, so whoever wants to take it is welcome.
My priority is to attend this event instead:
Vollversammlung des Ernährungsrates Berlin
Ungefähr einmal im Quartal gibt es eine Vollversammlung, zu der alle
Akteur*innen aus Berlin und Umland, die sich mit dem Thema Ernährung
befassen eingeladen sind. Die nächste Vollversammlung tagt am 7. November 2016 von 17-20 Uhr.
In addition, also on the 7.11. 18:00 – 20:00 there is the next of the
Werkstattgespräche urbanes Gärtnern
Seit 2012 gibt es diese vom Allmende-Kontor gemeinsam mit SenStadtUm angestoßene Runde ca. 3 mal im Jahr mit Aktiven aus Gemeinschaftsgärten und Kleingärten und der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt. Bisherige Themen u.a.: Grünflächenpflege in Berlin, essbare Stadt(teile), Nutzungsverträge, IGA, kommunale Unterstützungsmodelle für urban gardening, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Immer mit dabei: konstruktive Kritik, streitbare Themen, Kooperation, von- und übereinander lernen. Kontakt: gartenaktivistin[at]web.de
I’ll find out who’s going of the http://www.mauergarten.net so we get information what they talked about.
Info on 6.11.2016: The Werkstattgespräch is postponed to 9.1.2017.
@transitionmica
I am happy to do this !
Perhaps it would be easier for us to meet in person and we could map out what
needs to be done and by when. I will have a look to see if I can
recommend any other food policy plans.
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