Garden Academy (institution)
A garden academy is an educational, information and advisory institution for horticulture. The first garden academy was founded in Veitshöchheim in Bavaria in 1994 . There are now garden academies in eight federal states with different organizational forms, but with the common goal of supporting environmentally friendly horticulture. They are integrated into state test and research facilities for horticulture and chambers of agriculture. With independent, competent and neutral advice, they should support horticulture, clubs and associations as well as municipal and professional institutions. In addition to advice on the “garden telephone”, seminars, garden trips, brochures and information leaflets are also offered.
Recreational horticulture in Germany
In Germany around 15 million hobby gardeners cultivate a total of 930,000 hectares. This corresponds to around 2.6% of the total area of the Federal Republic. House gardens and allotments are usually managed without commercial interests. In recent years, however, there has been a change in usage. In earlier years the gardens were mainly used for self-sufficiency with fruit and vegetables, but recently the recreational and leisure aspect has come more and more to the fore. Information on topics of garden design and above all on the use of environmentally friendly cultivation and control methods is increasingly in demand.
Garden academies of the federal states
- The Bavarian Garden Academy is part of the Bavarian State Institute for Viticulture and Horticulture (LWG) in Veitshöchheim.
- The Prussian Royal Gardening School at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam , founded in 1823 by Peter Joseph Lenné as Europe's first school for garden culture, moved to Dahlem in 1903, now part of the Beuth University of Technology Berlin
- The Rhineland-Palatinate Garden Academy is based at the Rhineland-Palatinate Rural Area Service Center in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse of the Ministry for the Environment, Agriculture, Food, Viticulture and Forests . In addition to the environmentally friendly management of gardens, it is also committed to public and communal green spaces.
- The Garden Academy Baden-Württemberg is subordinate to the Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg and has its seat at the State Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture in Heidelberg .
- The Lower Saxony Garden Academy is part of the vocational training in horticulture department of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture and is located in the teaching and research institute for horticulture in Bad Zwischenahn .
- The Saxon Garden Academy is subordinate to the State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology and is based in Dresden- Pillnitz.
- The Saarland Garden Academy was founded in 1996 by the Chamber of Agriculture for Saarland in cooperation with the Association of Horticultural Associations and is based in Lebach .
- The Hessian Garden Academy is an educational institution of the State of Hesse and has employees in the Geisenheim horticultural center and in the Hesse State Agriculture Office in Kassel .
- The Thuringian Garden Academy was founded in March 2010 in Erfurt- Stotternheim and offers seminars in cooperation with the Erfurt Garden and Exhibition GmbH (ega). Own events are also offered.
- The gARTenakademie Sachsen-Anhalt was founded in March 2011. Its aim is to develop gardens and parks as meeting places and to preserve them for future generations as places for monument, landscape, nature and environmental protection. For this purpose, the gARTenakademie Sachsen-Anhalt offers training courses and advanced training in theory and practice in the areas of garden monument maintenance, garden art and horticulture. The gARTenakademie is based in Gardelegen -Zichtau.
literature
- Veitshöchheimer reports from viticulture and grapevine breeding: "Advisory Service Bavarian Garden Academy - Special edition for the 10th anniversary of the Garden Academy" Veitshöchheim 2004, 133 pp.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Bavarian Garden Academy , accessed on May 1, 2012
- ↑ Website of the Rhineland-Palatinate Garden Academy , accessed on May 1, 2012
- ↑ Internet site of the Garden Academy Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 1, 2012
- ^ Website of the Lower Saxony Garden Academy , accessed on May 1, 2012
- ^ Website of the Saxon Garden Academy , accessed on May 1, 2012
- ↑ Internet site of the Saarländische Gartenakademie ( memento of the original from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 1, 2012
- ↑ Internet site of the Hessian Garden Academy ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 1, 2012
- ↑ Internet site of the Thuringia Garden Academy , accessed on May 1, 2012
- ↑ Website of the Garden Academy Saxony-Anhalt , accessed on April 8, 2016
