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Rabe Ralf Februar/März 2026

Dan­ke an Ben­ni Bel­ger für den Besuch in der Bal­kon­schu­le, den inter­es­sie­ren­den Aus­tausch und schö­nen Bericht dar­über. Toll ist die Koope­ra­ti­on, bereits über 8 Jah­re, mit dem Raven Ralf, dem Maga­zin des Umwelt­ver­eins der Grü­nen Liga Ber­lin

Ber­li­ner Mor­gen­post: 13.11.25

Dan­ke Franz Micha­el Rohm für den Besuch von Ate­lier Gar­dens und den schö­nen Bericht. „

Die „Ate­lier Gar­dens“ auf dem Gelän­de der ehe­ma­li­gen Ufa-Film­stu­di­os an der Ober­land­stra­ße sind ein Cam­pus für umwelt­be­wuss­te und krea­ti­ve Men­schen“ – So ist es.

“atmo. Das Umwelt­ma­ga­zin für die Zukunft” 09/25 #machen: Men­schen, die uns vor­an­brin­gen unter #begrü­nen

Dank an Mai­ke Brzo­s­ka für die­sen Bericht im Umwelt­ma­ga­zin „atmo“ (Nach­fol­ge Green­peace-Maga­zin) im Sep­tem­ber 2025 und den Besuch in der Bal­kon­schu­le Ber­lin

BR-Hei­mat and Bayern2 04.05.25

Thanks to Ursu­la Kle­ment for the tele­pho­ne inter­view on wind on roof ter­races and plants sui­ta­ble for wind-expo­sed loca­ti­ons.

Radio 1: 20.03. + 23.03.25

Thank you Julia Vis­mann for this fine con­tri­bu­ti­on Orga­nic bal­c­o­ny — eco­lo­gi­cal gar­dening in a small spacewhich was laun­ched on 20.03.25 just in time for the start of the 16th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress “Every meter counts! Eco­lo­gi­cal gar­dening in a small space” and again on 23.03.25.

Book “Rebel­li­on: Urban gree­ning for a future worth living” by Con­rad Amber

Con­rad Amber is an Aus­tri­an natu­re lover, tree rese­ar­cher, pho­to­grapher and visio­na­ry. He calls hims­elf the voice of the trees.

His 4th book “Auf­bäu­men: Stadt­be­grü­nung für eine lebens­wer­te Zukunft” from Brau­mül­ler publi­shing house will be available in stores from Novem­ber 4, 2024: up-to-date know­ledge on topics such as green roofs, green faca­des, urban and street trees, natu­ral hedges, with plant lists and many recom­men­da­ti­ons for imple­men­ta­ti­on. Let yours­elf be sur­pri­sed and moti­va­ted. On over 350 pages, with around 400 (own) pho­tos of all pro­jects and exem­pla­ry natu­ral solu­ti­ons.

The orga­nic bal­c­o­ny move­ment is men­tio­ned in the book. Con­rad Amber gave two gre­at lec­tures for the Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gres­ses.

Don­na 10/24

Thanks to Julia Stei­ni­ge­weg for the won­derful pho­to ses­si­on for the women’s maga­zi­ne Don­na.

Ber­li­ner Mor­gen­post and Ber­li­ner Kurier 23.06.24

Thanks to Anja Soko­low from dpa Deut­sche Pres­se-Agen­tur GmbH for the adver­ti­sing wave for more urban gree­n­ery, who­se artic­le was published in print in the Ber­li­ner Mor­gen­post and the Ber­li­ner Kurier. Also online here

Pho­tos by Jörg Carstensen/dpa

City and green 7/2024

I am very plea­sed about the coope­ra­ti­on with the Pat­zer publi­shing house

Ten­ant maga­zi­ne “Mit­ten­drin” WBM Ber­lin-Mit­te March 2024

Book “Out­cry of Natu­re” by Prof. Peter Bert­hold

Our future needs natu­re. Bio­di­ver­si­ty: The gua­ran­tee for our sur­vi­val: What we can still do — the last chan­ce for our bat­te­red pla­net. The illus­tra­ted book on the sub­ject of spe­ci­es con­ser­va­ti­on will be published on Decem­ber 22, 2023 at the publi­shing house Fre­de­r­king & Tha­ler.

Dare to crea­te habi­tats for the wil­der­ness!
Every home gar­den can be a bio­to­pe! A colorful­ly illus­tra­ted appeal as to why we humans must dare to crea­te wil­der­ness. No mat­ter whe­re you crea­te ponds, pools and ripa­ri­an forests, orchards, hedge­rows and near-natu­ral gar­dens in Ger­ma­ny: A spe­ci­es-rich bio­to­pe of flowe­ring plants and thou­sands of crea­tures such as but­ter­flies, dra­gon­flies, frogs, amphi­bi­ans and fish is crea­ted in a short space of time.
In this enga­ging non-fic­tion book, Pro­fes­sor Peter Bert­hold, renow­ned orni­tho­lo­gist and beha­vi­oral sci­en­tist, explains how ever­y­thing is con­nec­ted and why we should do ever­y­thing we can for bio­di­ver­si­ty and natu­re con­ser­va­ti­on.

The orga­nic bal­c­o­ny move­ment is men­tio­ned in the book as a con­cre­te tip: what each indi­vi­du­al can do to save bio­di­ver­si­ty.

The Health Con­sul­tant 12/2023

I am very plea­sed about the coope­ra­ti­on with the EMU Publi­shing HouseThe health advi­sor. Maga­zi­ne of the Socie­ty for Health Coun­seling GGB e.V.: “Self-suf­fi­ci­en­cy from the pot. How to crea­te a “living” bal­c­o­ny” inclu­ding book pre­sen­ta­ti­on My inge­nious orga­nic bal­c­o­ny

6. Heil­bron­ner Gar­ten- und Gesund­heits­ta­ge Bio&Chi 23./24. Sep­tem­ber 2023

Report in the “Heil­bron­ner Stim­me” about the 6th Heil­bronn Gar­den and Health Days in the Bio­land nur­sery Umbach Heil­bronn

My stand at the Bio&Chi 2023 garden and health fair at Bioland-Gärtnerei Umbach Heilbronn

“Walk Man Pod­cast” August 21, 2023

Ralf Baum­gar­ten offers a Moti­va­tio­nal pod­cast and invi­ted me to his “walk-man pod­cast” Life in Moti­on.

You can lis­ten to the epi­so­de here: Apple Pod­cast, Spo­ti­fy, You­Tube

I speak as a balcony ambassador on Ralf Baumgartner's "Walk-Män-Podcast" Life in Motion

“Geo Natu­re” August 03, 2023

A very nice artic­le by Maria Kira­dy at Geo Natur “Plant criss-cross”: how to grow vege­ta­bles on the bal­c­o­ny

Interview with the balcony ambassador for Geo Natur on self-sufficiency on balconies and windowsills

Deutsch­land­funk, real-time July 22, 2023

Cli­ma­te chan­ge and bal­c­o­ny “Saving the world with four squa­re meters” by Mat­thi­as Fin­ger in the Deutschlan­funk Cul­tu­re. From minu­te 2:20 you are stan­ding on my bal­c­o­ny — jungle in mid­sum­mer.

Press Real-time Matthias Finger July 22, 2023

Ber­li­ner Zei­tung No. 132 Satur­day June 10 /Sunday June 11, 2023

Thank you Anne Vor­brin­ger for this artic­le “Laven­der hui, gera­ni­ums pfui. On some bal­co­nies in Ber­lin the­re are only beer cra­tes and a few dry flower pots on win­dows­ills. That needs to chan­ge — with our expert tips.” It’s online here.

Cul­tu­ral Coun­cil 6/2023

I am very plea­sed about the request from Kul­tur­rat e.V. for its June maga­zi­ne. The Deut­scher Kul­tur­rat e.V. is the umbrel­la orga­niza­ti­on of the Ger­man cul­tu­ral asso­cia­ti­ons. It is the point of cont­act for poli­ti­ci­ans and admi­nis­tra­tors at fede­ral, sta­te and Euro­pean Uni­on level for all cul­tu­ral poli­cy mat­ters rela­ting to the indi­vi­du­al divi­si­ons (sec­tions) of the Ger­man Cul­tu­ral Coun­cil. The aim of the Ger­man Cul­tu­ral Coun­cil is to sti­mu­la­te cul­tu­ral poli­cy dis­cus­sion at all poli­ti­cal levels and to advo­ca­te free­dom of art, publi­ca­ti­on and infor­ma­ti­on.

Maga­zi­ne Blatt­grün. Living sus­tain­ab­ly and clo­se to natu­re in Fran­co­nia March/April 2023

SWR2 30.10.2022

Jour­na­list Thi­lo Schmidt visi­ted me and my Worm boxes: Com­post in the kit­chen — The worm bin and was ama­zed at how much can grow on a bal­c­o­ny. He did­n’t see any room for a gar­den chair and pro­ba­b­ly over­loo­ked my sea­ting area with its lar­ge woo­den table and bench becau­se of all the gree­n­ery. I’ve har­ve­s­ted at least 500 toma­toes this sea­son, he pro­ba­b­ly could­n’t belie­ve it eit­her. I can only recom­mend making use of the capa­ci­ty of your bal­c­o­ny or win­dows­ill and sus­tainable fer­ti­li­zer from its own bio­was­te.

Tas­po 20.05.22

Inter­view Bir­git Schatt­ling and Klaus Umbach in con­ver­sa­ti­on with Jani­na Bus­se from the TASPO ” on 20.05.22

Rabe Ralf April/May 2022

The coope­ra­ti­on, alre­a­dy over 5 years, with the Raven Ralfthe maga­zi­ne of the envi­ron­men­tal asso­cia­ti­on of the Green League Ber­lin. 

FAZ 04/22

Matching the exten­si­on of the 9th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress Can you plant ani­mals? 2.0 a men­ti­on on 1.4.22 in the FAZ  “Gar­den­ers in urban guer­ril­la war­fa­re” by Clau­dia Schül­ke.

SVZ 03/22

Column “When I squat in the beds… Off to the Bio-Bal­ko Con­gress” by Bea­te Schött­ke-Pen­ke on 05.03.22

My beau­tiful gar­den 03/22

Men­ti­on of the 9th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress Can you plant ani­mals? 2.0 in “My beau­tiful gar­den”. Here is an artic­le I wro­te 6 orga­nic tips for the bal­c­o­ny gar­den.

Lisa 03/22

Men­ti­on of the 9th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress Can you plant ani­mals? 2.0 and from the Bee bet­ter — Award in the Gar­ten­spaß.

Gar­dening fun 03/22

Men­ti­on of the 9th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress Can you plant ani­mals? 2.0 in the Gar­ten­spaß.

Rabe Ralf February/March 22 — Envi­ron­men­tal maga­zi­ne of the Green League Ber­lin

Matching the exten­si­on of the 9th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress Can you plant ani­mals? 2.0 a nice artic­le in the Raven Ralf.

Neigh­bor­hood maga­zi­ne RWE 01/22

Con­gress spo­kes­wo­man Andrea Jaschik pre­sen­ted in the neigh­bor­hood maga­zi­ne RWE 01/22 her Hor­tus Aquis befo­re. She men­tio­ned the 9th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress Can you plant ani­mals? 2.0 and the plan­ting com­pe­ti­ti­on We do some­thing for bees.

Bau­haus Maga­zi­ne 01/22

Pre­sen­ta­ti­on as blog­ger favo­ri­te in the Bau­haus maga­zi­ne 1st quar­ter 2022 “Vom Gärt­nern im 6. Stock” by Ulri­ke Han­nin­ger.

News­let­ter Gar­dening Prac­ti­ce 31.01.22

Gar­dening fun 09/21

Blog­ger por­trait “Gar­dening abo­ve the roof­tops of Ber­lin” by Ulri­ke Han­nin­ger in the Gar­den fun.

Tip 05/21

Matching the exten­si­on of the 7th Online Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress Healt­hy self-care is that easy! a nice artic­le in the Tip “The new plea­su­re of gar­dening”.

WA News — Annu­al series 2020

Annu­al series 2020 about an orga­nic bal­c­o­ny in the raw food maga­zi­ne WA News — here May/June 2020

Natu­re 06/20

The pres­ti­gious maga­zi­ne Natu­re is publi­shing a 12-page spe­cial on natu­ral bal­c­o­ny gar­dening in 06/2020. I am fea­tured on 4 pages. The por­trait is real — thank you Klaus Sieg and Mar­tin Egbert.

dpa release 14.06.20

Why gar­dens are so popu­lar in coro­na times

© dpa-info­com, dpa:200612–99-400983/2

Colo­gne City Gazet­te 02./03.05.20

The gar­dening fri­end 05/20

Maga­zi­ne Green 03/20

My beau­tiful gar­den 03/20

Rabe Ralf February/March 20 — Envi­ron­men­tal maga­zi­ne of the Green League Ber­lin

Der Fal­ke 08/19 — Obser­ving natu­re in the city

Bird spe­ci­es recor­ded on five sel­ec­ted bal­co­nies in Ber­lin, Ham­burg, Munich and Stutt­gart. The loca­ti­on, flo­or and expo­sure are indi­ca­ted.

Süd­deut­sche Zei­tung Cou­ra­ge for cha­os 22.06.19

Hands in the soil! Ver­ti­cal Gar­dening — For green, edi­ble cities of the future! by Dr. Jür­gen Her­ler

This Book is a gui­de for anyo­ne who wants to eat orga­ni­cal­ly and healt­hi­ly — by gro­wing their own fruit and vege­ta­bles — as well as for archi­tects and gar­den plan­ners who want to break new ground.
Bio­lo­gist Jür­gen Her­ler illus­tra­tes the importance of urban gree­n­ery and the pos­si­bi­li­ties of imple­men­ting this in urban are­as through ver­ti­cal gar­dening — on bal­co­nies, ter­races and house walls. He gives prac­ti­cal tips for ver­ti­cal low-ener­gy vege­ta­ble cul­ti­va­ti­on in win­ter and pres­ents 30 frost-resistant varie­ties in words and pic­tures.
He also deals inten­si­ve­ly with the pro­blems of indus­tri­al agri­cul­tu­re, the boom in orga­nic far­ming, healt­hy food, micro­bio­me rese­arch and bio­di­ver­si­ty in cul­ti­va­ti­on and nut­ri­ti­on.
The aut­hor deve­lo­ps inno­va­ti­ve ver­ti­cal beds hims­elf. His visi­on is green, “edi­ble” hou­ses and cities. With this book, he encou­ra­ges reflec­tion and calls for action.

Detail­ed pre­sen­ta­ti­on of my bal­c­o­ny on pages 134 to 137.

The Book was published by Enns­tha­ler on June 17, 2019.

Natür­lich Gärt­nern & Anders Leben 06/19

Neckar­tal Anzei­ger 05/19

Gar­den design maga­zi­ne for gar­den design 03/19

Rabe Ralf February/March 19 — Envi­ron­men­tal maga­zi­ne of the Green League Ber­lin

Food & Farm 02/19

Natu­re­ga­zer 03/2018

Rabe Ralf February/March 2018 — Envi­ron­men­tal maga­zi­ne of the Green League Ber­lin

Book Self-Cate­ring Basics by Dr. Fol­ko Kull­mann

This Book was published on 07.02.18 by GU-Ver­lag.

Pre­sen­ta­ti­on of my bal­c­o­ny on pages 106 to 107.

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Insects support ecological gardening in small spaces (balcony, terrace, windowsill, allotment).

Are you rea­dy for the most beau­tiful, edi­ble, ani­mal-fri­end­ly bal­c­o­ny of your life?

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