There is a lot of city gardening going on in Kanaleneiland. There are not only hip, educational/social projects, but also a lot of the original immigrant neighbours are growing vegetables and fruits in their gardens. On my trip is saw a large amount of fig trees, often combined with satellite dishes - a constellation produced by nostalgia?
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| beans in the front garden |
The post war neighborhoods that where built in the fifties often have huge communal gardens in between the apartment block, but in the early sixties - when Kanaleneiland was built - most of the gardens where already made private. Except from the vegetable patches a lot of these gardens are very wild. Apparently most of the neighbours didn't feel like cultivating - or tiling - their gardens.
