OPENING HOURS
Tuesdays and Sundays 3-6pm
WHAT IS A CLIMATE GARDEN?
Unlike most community gardens which produce food, we planned the Aurora Climate Garden to be an edible “pocket forest”. There are no plots, so the whole area connects as a system. While food security and gardening skills are important for adaptation to how the climate has changed, our project aims to actually slow down the changes and mitigate the ones to come. How? By restoring the natural ecosystem to our corner of the city.
For this, we make a lot of compost and up-cycle city waste. Our tools are native, edible, useful plants and herbs, whenever possible. Our best allies are soil bacteria, fungus and earthworms, not to mention the birds, bees, spiders and bugs that follow. We design with permaculture principles and use a number of regenerative agro-forestry techniques to transform the area into a living, self-sustaining micro-climate.
Through experimenting, we’re learning as we go how to build soil health: the more plants we grow, the more sun energy we catch, and thus more carbon goes into the soil. We’re also fixing the water cycle: the more rain we can catch, the more ways we can use it, and importantly, the longer we can hold it in the soil for dry periods. To increase the resilience of the system against climate extremes, we are increasing biodiversity, providing habitat for all types of plants and animals. This gets the forest closer to natural stability.
In three years, our old parking lot will be fully self-sustaining, cooling green space — a living model where we can share our harvest, our compost, and most of all the experience and know-how we’ve gathered.
COMMUNITY COMPOST
Our thermal compost pile has special abilities most city compost places don’t have. These special materials require strict rules. Please check our facebook page, or the gate of the garden for the complete list and rules before donating anything questionable. If you have a question, we’re always there on open days to help.
WHAT AND HOW TO PUT INTO THE COMPOST?
We accept GREEN WASTE:
NO-NO for:
We accept HOME/GARDEN WASTE:
Make sure that the waste does NOT contain:
We can not compos:
COMMUNITY EVENTS AT THE GARDEN
In our garden we usually organize workshops and one-day programs. Aside from hosting the weekly work of Food Not Bombs Budapest, we also have community areas for daytime theater, reading circles and organizational meetings. Our extended garden community has presented workshops on urban composting, mushroom farming at home, xmas tree composting, secrets of the soil, seed bombs, pickling, and bike repair as well as a number of clothing swap-meets.
Every week, we meet to work in the garden, sometimes to cook and eat our produce or try some new food with ingredients fresh from our garden. Other times we have larger projects like building new raised beds, fixing up our bee hotel, or simply sifting our finished compost. Sometimes we try out fun ideas, like making twine from nettles or working on our seed bank.
The AKK is open to everyone, local residents and tourists, children and retired persons alike on open days. We’re happy to give you a tour of the garden, explain our composting and regenerative methods, give gardening advice, or just show you to a quiet place to watch the bees and birds.
To organize an event in the garden, don’t hesitate to contact us!
If you have any questions, or you would like to organise some garden workshop for your class or your colleagues, or you would like to join the team, write to us!
e-mail: komposztmester@auroraonline.hu
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