Tobi­as Bode is 2nd chair­man of the allot­ment gar­den asso­cia­ti­on NW 18 in Munich. As a trai­ned land­scape gar­de­ner and gra­dua­te engi­neer (FH) in open space plan­ning, he is also the aut­hor and direc­tor of „Quer­beet“, the gar­dening pro­gram on Bava­ri­an radio. Tog­e­ther with his wife Sabi­ne, he has been cul­ti­vat­ing a 250 squa­re meter plot of land sin­ce Decem­ber 2018. Tobi­as Bode has writ­ten the book „Unser natur­na­her Klein­gar­ten“, which was published by pala-ver­lag in May 2024.

Con­tents:

I met Tobi­as last year at the ope­ning event of the „Allot­ment gar­dens for bio­di­ver­si­ty“ pro­ject. His lec­tu­re „An enti­re allot­ment gar­den site beco­mes a natu­re gar­den impres­sed me very much. The NW 18 was the first allot­ment gar­den site in Bava­ria to be com­ple­te­ly cer­ti­fied as a „natu­ral gar­den“ as part of the „Bay­ern blüht — Natur­gar­ten“ initia­ti­ve. 115 out of 122 allot­ment gar­dens met the cri­te­ria! How did they achie­ve this? Tobi­as descri­bes how the board mana­ged to get peo­p­le exci­ted about bio­di­ver­si­ty and gar­den cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on. Tobi­as takes us on a jour­ney through his allot­ment gar­den and the site and shows us the diver­se struc­tures. The start­ing point is his for­mer roof ter­race, which he used to make insect-fri­end­ly with his wife.