On the area between the moat and the Piława River, near the centre of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, there is an open field.But on 3 December, it began to change. By the hands of the Board of the Foundation and the project coordinator, the first spade for the construction of an ecological educational garden, which will be built here in the coming months, has been knocked in. Guests who visit Krzyżowa next year will be able to take advantage of the new offer and learn the secrets of organic plant cultivation - a crop that works in harmony with nature and is based as much as possible on using natural processes as allies in running the garden.
Like most of the foundation's projects, the construction of the garden is an international project, carried out in cooperation with the Berlin-based organisation Slow Food Deutschland e.V., thanks to funding from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, a foundation based in Osnabrück which has supported environmental protection measures since the early 1990s. The investment includes the creation of a vegetable section, a herbarium and an orchard. In addition, a so-called forest garden will be created among the picturesquely growing oaks - an ideal place to walk and relax, especially on hot days.
An interesting fact is that the construction of the garden is at the same time a realisation of one of the previously unrealised statutory provisions of the Foundation, which states that in addition to its activities for the benefit of dialogue and understanding, the Krzyżowa Foundation should include in its activities the running of an ecological farm, thus referring to the original function of the facility in which the farm operated until 1990. The garden in Krzyżowa will thus be able to become a substitute for this farm, which the founders of the Foundation imagined in the early 1990s.
The authors of the project: TECLA Sp. z o. o.
