Ecohouse in St. Petersburg

Finnish NGO’s Dodo and Oranssi made a holiday trip to St. Petersburg 16th-19th April 09. Dodos visited a co-operative ecohouse in southern suburbs and Alla Jakovleva was proud to present the inspiring cultivation activites. It was still chilly but there was saplings already growing inside two green houses on the roof top.

There has been many urban agriculture projects in St. Petersburg in the last 15 years (in addition to traditional dachas in peri-urban areas) but this house has remained only official one active to this day. However Alla Jakovleva told about plans to establish a community garden involving a larger extent of neighbourhood communities. We hope all the best for their future efforts and we’ll surely stay in contact since it’s our eastern neighbour gardening combatants in question!

Blossom in summertime.

Front yards are also used for flower benches.

Back in the early 90′. Since the beginning, it has been easy to invite youngsters to participate!

These kind of garages were widely used for poultry farming in the early 90′.

For example pine saplings, flowers and lettuce are being grown on the roof top.

Tomato Saplings grow in green houses and are brought to dachas.

The low attic serves as a storage.