Vision — Every meter, every flower counts!

Hello, I am Birgit Schattling

Balcony ambassador with all my heart and conviction since 2017. My passion is gardening in small spaces and talking about it to inspire others.

My Vision is that more people are using their balconies and windowsills use — close to nature, for Self-sufficiencyas Oases of peace and relaxation. For quality of life in edible cities, preservation of the biodiversity, Climate protectionoases of well-being with exciting Nature experiences.

The organic balcony project I initiated in 2017 with 13 organic balcony congresses to date, 2 guidebooks, 4 balcony courses, various lecture tours and publications is an invitation for many more green, blooming, diverse feel-good places for humans and animals with a pleasant microclimate and lush harvest — especially in our cities.

In a small space more possiblethan you think! I inspire, share experiences and give practical instructions. My how-to book, published by Gräfe und Unze in March 2020, has received the best feedback “My biotope on the balcony. Experience nature and harvest happiness in the middle of the city” (already 2nd edition). In May 2023, “My ingenious organic balcony. With great plant combinations & DIY projects for more biodiversity and a delicious harvest” as an Ulmer guidebook in the successful guidebook series #machsustainable.

Find out more about my work and background as well as tips, tips, tips from practice in the 13 online organic balcony congresses I have organized so far, more than 50 guest contributions at other online congresses and on this website.

Various publications about me

My 1st book: My biotope on the balcony

My 2nd book: My ingenious organic balcony

We are fed up!

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Gardening saves the world!

Each and every one of us has experienced the feeling that there is nothing we can actually do about major changes such as species extinction and climate change. Everything I do is not good enough. Gardening, whether on the balcony, windowsill or in the garden, is a positive approach to making a difference and changing things on many levels. With lots of joy, fun and a successful harvest. It’s all about getting started. Just get started. Gardening makes a difference, and this becomes visible quickly and easily. We learn to look, listen, observe, empathize with our plants and the earthworm and get a feel for them. We feel that we are part of nature. We reconnect with nature. There is no real separation. A responsibility arises from this. In the 5th year of the organic balcony project, I am more and more convinced that balconies are a A link to get closer to nature are. They take us back to the nature that we experience and feel there. We are part of nature.

Tomatoes — old varieties

Lectures on the guidebook, published by GU: My biotope on the balcony. Experience nature and harvest happiness in the middle of the city. Insect-friendly gardening. Growing tomatoes, radishes, lettuce, chard, kale, French cabbage and microgreens on the windowsill!

Apple and spaghetti squash. Plus nettles for green smoothies and butterfly offspring.

Vision — Every meter, every flower counts!

Hello, I am Birgit Schattling

Gardening saves the world!

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