16th Online Organic Balcony Congress — Special opening April 05 + 06
Every meter counts! Ecological gardening in a small space
Self-sufficiency, biodiversity, urban nature and being naturally connected
Would you like to support insects and enjoy healthy, fresh organic vegetables, salads, fruit and herbs all year round? 30 experts share their knowledge online & free of charge and give tried-and-tested tips on growing high-yielding vegetables and herbs on balconies, patios, windowsills and kitchen tables and promoting biodiversity.
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Birgit Schattling’s Bio-Balkon-Kongress is known from:
These experts support the organic balcony movement
and share their tried-and-tested knowledge, experience and enthusiasm with you free of charge for 48 hours each in interviews and talks. We garden in harmony with nature, do not use toxic pesticides or peat, fertilize without synthetic chemical fertilizers and nurture soil life. We promote biodiversity with native and ecologically valuable plants and love a wide variety of vegetables and herbs.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Gebhard
Good life and good places, nature as a space of experience and a source of meaning

Patricia Bobak
My tiny wild north-facing balcony on 2.4 m² — from a wild idea to a natural paradise

Dr. med. Marianne Ruoff
Dandelion and lion’s power, spring herb and spring cure

Claudia Dettmer
Insect-friendly gardening in the big city on 2.7 m²

Heide Bergmann
Long live my basil and other herbs for the balcony

Anja Eder
My ArtenRetterGarten book — natural gardening in the allotment garden

Saratah Keita
My balcony again. With little to abundance

Dr. Jürgen Herler
Outdoor design with a healthy vertical herb garden

Frederike Vergeest
Small 30 m² terraced house garden. Everything is more species-rich than lawn

Anneliese Braitmaier
Growing lettuce all year round in balcony boxes, pots and tubs

Christiane Denzel
Topsoil — so much more than dirt! About soil life

Mirja Neff
Photographing insects made easy

Judith Andlinger
The worm is the best gardener: Worm vases & bed composting

Dr. Michael Altmoos
Mini wilderness as an opportunity. With more natural dynamics even on a small scale

Tobias Bode
Natural allotment garden: biodiversity and harvest happiness in the allotment garden

Sylvia Meise
Wild Life on the 5th floor. Two years of Frankfurt’s wildflower balcony and its wild visitors

Simone Böcker
Rewild the world — rewild yourself. An uncultivated view of the world

Berthold Daubner
Insect-friendly perennial combinations with native grasses

Sigrid Tinz
Independent plants — how they spread and maintain themselves

Klaus Umbach
Relaxed education on hemp cultivation in pots from the master gardener’s practice

Dr. Anna Schuster
Intuitive cooking with wild plants

Lisa Maria Mourning
Month after month of self-sufficiency from the balcony raised bed

Andreas Telkemeier
Permaculture, conscious and sustainable living in the city

Jennifer Richard
From meadow to garden. How a garden becomes a natural garden for additional care

Andrea Heistinger
Seed gardening on the balcony — how does it work?

Melanie Öhlenbach
Climate heroes for the climate-friendly urban balcony

Katina Leon
Feeding birds: urban pigeons on the balcony

Dr. Cristina Lindemann
Designing a children’s bed in the smallest of spaces

Philipp Herrmann
Identify birds with your ears

Birgit Schattling
How to start and select the most rewarding plants

Christine Rauch
Eating wild plants with Survival Sieglinde

Martina Wappel
Proven irrigation and planters

Ulrike Windsperger
Balcony gardening in a changing climate — climate-friendly gardening

Thomas Puhlmann
Ecologically valuable plant combinations for your balcony

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Every meter counts! Ecological gardening in a small space
The congress is for you, whether you have a small garden with a patio, balcony or even just windowsills in the city. This online congress offers practical tips on how to grow your own fresh, poison-free, freshly harvested vegetables and herbs all year round in a small space and promote biodiversity.
Registration takes place as part of the Privacy policy.
Organic balcony movement
The organic balcony movement is growing steadily, with over 30,000 participants at the last (15th) congress! Every flowering pot, every windowsill, every meter of balcony counts — oases of well-being for humans and animals! Home-grown vegetables, fruit and herbs!
- Beautifully diverse easy to clean Biotopes for many different animal species. Bees and butterflies fly to the 6th and 8th floor!
- You only need the suitable plants. Insects and birds can fly from balcony to balcony, to the garden, to the park …
- For you a Feel-good place with own Microclimate and Nature experiencesthat will touch you and make you happy.


Planting balconies
Many of the 58 million balconies in Germany are unused or just a storage room! Yet they could be biotopes for animals. A feel-good place for you to relax. You want to do something. Right now.
- You don’t even know, how to start. You have not learned. You are no longer in relationship with nature.
- Which plants are actually Easy to clean and suitable, To promote animals?
- You think you have no green thumbyou have no luck with plants.
Easy even for beginners
You don’t need green fingers! We’ll tell you how to create your dream balcony — it’s really easy. 30 experts share their knowledge with you! They reveal how you can easily set up your organic balcony:
- Simple, inexpensive, easy to clean, in the Proven in practice.
- The experts and practitioners will give you plenty of Inspiration, Planting recommendationsn and Instructions. They share their experiences with you.
- You sow, plant, water, enjoy and perhaps put out bird food. The animals will come. Each additional plant species brings new animals to you and even more magical moments!


In the middle of paradise
Sit right in the middle of it and enjoy the scent, look and animal visitors. Experience great satisfaction and health. Your green feel-good balcony protects and promotes the diversity of our native flora and fauna.
- You sit in your seating area with fresh air and relax in your green oasisthat attracts animals and benefits them.
- You use plant species with a high ecological value for our native wildlife with various Flowering and crop rotation.
- Your balcony is Easy to cleanYou need Water lessbecause you are using plants that can withstand climate change and that Promoting biodiversity and beautiful are.
OUR PARTICIPANTS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC
“I came across your site plus the ongoing event purely “by chance”. Everything is great, very helpful and really very practical. Many thanks for your excellent work. dk“ Dana K.
„I have microgreens in the kitchen and am giving them away for birthdays this year. There is now a worm box in the kitchen. I have placed stones, branches and empty snail shells in the boxes. The rain is caught in them and various insects come to drink. Stinging nettles and wild garlic are now also growing in the soil ring.
The congress was such a great inspiration to me that I am passing it on. At work, the garden is now managed differently, a colleague is redesigning her garden.… .
The first thing I do every day is go out onto the terrace to greet the new inhabitants. It gives me so much pleasure to watch them grow. I water them with vegetable cooking water and put out bird food.
At the moment I’m looking into EM and trying to find something suitable for me.“ Gabriele S.
“I’m thrilled and I’m really blossoming — so many positive emotions are conveyed here.” Grit S.
“By chance I came across and into your organic balcony conference -
with a little skepticism, but this disappeared completely with the first lecture.
The presentations became more exciting with each day and I was blown away by your enthusiasm and what you have put together. Here in the Stuttgart area, land is similarly limited and expensive as in Berlin. Now I know what I have in the “towel” that I own… and what else is possible.
I now also have a vertical bed and a worm box with hopefully happy worms.” Susanne A.
“Thank you for sharing your immense knowledge and network in such a loving and appreciative way.
Thanks for taking my hand when starting and/or rearranging the (balcony) planting.
Thank you for encouraging me to “just get started”.
You were, or rather are, an inspiration for me and I was able to put aside my “fear” of doing something wrong when gardening and I also feel so incredibly motivated by the fact that I was and am able to experience at the congress and in the Facebook group that there are sooooo many great people who make the world a little or a huge amount more colorful every day and who are anything but indifferent to the other person — no matter how small a bug or bacterium.” Mirjam W.
“I’ve heard a lot of congresses, but I’ve never seen organizers respond so quickly to emails and be so present with questions and comments! I think that’s very high quality!
And your way of interviewing and your choice of interviewees is totally brilliant! Super!
I’ve been ill for over 1.5 years and since your last conference I’ve been really motivated to make my balcony beautiful — in small steps, but very lively. Thank you very much for that! It invigorates me, even if I have to be careful not to take on too much because otherwise I’ll be overwhelmed … But that also comes across really well in your conferences. Thank you!“ Katja S.
“The enthusiasm was completely transferred to me, and that at 01:25 at night. The presentation was really great and the most important thing was always emphasized: try it out, it’s not bad if it doesn’t work.” Lutzi F.
“I really like this congress. The main topics, your interesting questions and your calm way of moderating. It’s really fun to watch the interviews. Very professional. ” Kaia L.
“Great lots of good information and stay creative and not too complicated” Tonja R.
The congress organizer
Hello, I am Birgit Schattling
Balcony ambassador with all her heart and conviction from Berlin City
My Vision is that more people are using their balconies and windowsills use — close to nature, to the Self-sufficiencyas Oases of peace and relaxation. For quality of life in edible cities, preservation of the biodiversity, Climate protection and Oases of well-being with exciting Nature experiences.
I will help you with this congress, Your own dream balcony and at the same time Encourage insects, birds and other animals.



Vita
Birgit Schattling initiated the Organic balcony movement in 2017. it helps (not only) City dwellers again More greenery and self-sufficiency into the cities. It gives practical instructions for Lush, joyful balcony oaseswhich is a boon for People, insects and animals are.
The Berlin balcony gardener, “Nature in the garden” ambassador, Author and Organizer of the 16 Online Organic Balcony Congresses to date Birgit Schattling is Media award winner 2018 of the German Horticultural Society 1822 e.V. In 2017 and 2019, she was responsible for the “European Award for Ecological Gardening” nominated. In 2017, she was awarded a prize in the Green League’s “Toxic-free gardening” competition. Special price for Gardening in the smallest of spaces.
She is a university-certified “Expert advisor for self-sufficiency with edible wild plants”. Your Hortus Bio-Balkon is part of the “Hortus network. Diversity. Beauty. Benefit”. For four years she has been Juror for the “Deutschland summt!” planting competition.
For the publishing house Gräfe und Unzer, she wrote the guidebook “My biotope on the balcony. Experience nature and harvest happiness in the middle of the city”. Published by Ulmer Verlag on May 19 in the #machsustainable-series “My ingenious organic balcony. With great plant combos & DIY projects for more biodiversity and a delicious harvest”.
Questions & Answers


The congress will take place online in the comfort of your own home. In the period from March 20 to 31, 2025 you will receive a daily e‑mail with the access links to the respective interviews.
You can watch every interview in the 48-hour period on your computer, cell phone, laptop or tablet free of charge.
Exchange of experience desired: The comment function is activated under every post. You have the opportunity to exchange ideas with other congress participants, experts and practitioners — most experts and practitioners will be looking to support us!
Yes, participation is 100 % free of charge! However, you have the opportunity to purchase the congress package with all interviews for a small price and thus secure all the important content so that you can view it several times via the members’ area (lifetime access) or via download. In the Newsletter you will receive more detailed information — also to the upcoming promotional prices.
No. The complete expert interviews and question-and-answer sessions can be viewed exclusively here as part of this congress. Registration for the congress with an e‑mail address is sufficient.
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Lecture program (each for 48 hours)
Presentation of the lecture program with master gardeners, scientists, producers, authors and balcony practitioners.
Almost all speakers have agreed to answer questions. Use the comment option under each post to exchange ideas. We have the Bio-Balkon Kongress experience exchange group on Facebook.
We are pioneers, we experiment with joy and curiosity and approach nature, and therefore ourselves, with appreciation.
Early spring: Thursday, March 20/Friday, March 21
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Gebhard — Keynote speech Nature as a space of experience
Patricia Bobak — My tiny wild north-facing balcony on 2.4 m²
Dr. Marianne Ruoff — Dandelion and lion power, spring herb and spring cure
Friday March 21/Saturday March 22
Claudia Dettmer — Insect-friendly gardening in the big city on 2.7 m²
Heide Bergmann — Long live my basil and other herbs
Anja Eder — My ArtenRetterGarten book — natural gardening in the allotment garden
Saturday March 22/Sunday March 23
Saratah Keita — My balcony again. With little to abundance
Dr. Jürgen Herler — Outdoor design with vertical herb garden
Frederike Vergeest — 30 m² terraced house garden. Everything is richer in species than grass
Sunday March 23/Monday March 24
Anneliese Braitmaier — Growing lettuce all year round in balcony boxes and tubs
Christiane Denzel — Topsoil — so much more than dirt! About soil life
Mirja Neff — Photographing insects made easy
Monday, March 24/Tuesday, March 25
Judith Andlinger — The worm is the best gardener: Worm vases and bed composting
Dr. Michael Altmoos — Mini-wilderness as an opportunity. Working with more natural dynamics even on a small scale
Tobias Bode — Biodiversity and harvest happiness in the allotment garden
Tuesday, March 25/Wednesday, March 26
Silvia Meise — Wild Life on the 5th floor. Two years of Frankfurt’s wildflower balcony
Simone Böcker — Rewild the world — rewild yourself. An uncultivated view of the world
Wednesday March 26/Thursday March 27
Berthold Daubner — Insect-friendly perennial combinations with native grasses
Sigrid Tinz — Independent plants — how they spread and sustain themselves
Thursday March 27/Friday March 28
Klaus Umbach — Relaxed education on hemp cultivation in pots from the practice of the master gardener
Dr. Anna Schuster — Intuitive cooking with wild plants
Friday March 28/Saturday March 29
Lisa Maria Trauer — Self-sufficiency from the balcony raised bed month after month
Andreas Telkemeier — Permaculture, conscious & sustainable living in the city
Jennifer Richard — How a garden becomes a natural garden for supplementary care
Saturday March 29/Sunday March 30
Andrea Heistinger — Seed gardening on the balcony — how does it work?
Melanie Öhlenbach — Climate heroes for the climate-friendly urban balcony
Katina Leon — Feeding birds: city pigeons on the balcony
Sunday March 30/Monday March 31
Dr. Cristina Lindemann — Designing a children’s bed in the smallest of spaces
Philipp Herrmann — Identifying birds with your ears
Birgit Schattling — How to start and select the most rewarding plants

Every meter counts! Ecological gardening in a small space
Find out from the 30 experts how you can put this into practice! The congress is for you, your self-empowerment — regardless of whether you have a balcony or even just windowsills in the city or a small garden with a terrace.
Register now for free!
Registration takes place as part of the Privacy policy.