Spring awakening in the Rebenstraße

Together with the association Edible City, the city of Bocholt invites to a joint planting of new mobile planter boxes in Rebenstraße. Invited are children of the Diepenbrockschule and their parents as well as children from the neighborhood of Rebenstraße to plant the planter boxes with herbs and vegetables on Friday, April 8, at 2:30 pm.

The idea for the joint project of the city administration, with the school, the Edible City Association arose last year in the project "Future City Bocholt 2030+", where raised beds were already planted in the schoolyard of Diepenbrock School.

Necessary sewer work, however, which had to be carried out in Rebenstraße last year, ensured that the raised beds were initially placed in the schoolyard. Under the guidance of Torsten Wollberg from the Edible City Association, the children of the Open All-Day School planted herbs and vegetable plants in the beds and tended and diligently harvested them during the school year. The action was a complete success for all and extremely instructive for the children and their care of the Open All-Day School.

This success is now to be continued. This year's action will now take place on Rebenstraße, will be accessible to all and is intended to invite participation. The action is intended to temporarily upgrade the part of Rebenstraße. To further enhance the quality of stay, two benches have been installed - whether for parents waiting for children after school, as a breather on the way to or from the bus station, or now for gardening.

The benches and raised beds were funded by money from the Bocholt Urban Planning. "The Edible City project combined with an (educational) offer for the students of the Diepenbrock School is a great combination and a real enrichment, because it has been our goal for a long time to get more green into the city center," emphasizes city building official Daniel Zöhler. The plants, such as herbs, shrubs, lettuce and various seeds, are provided by the city of Bocholt and the association Essbare Stadt Bocholt-Borken e.V. for this campaign.

"As part of our project Future City Bocholt, we often work in networks. So we have managed here a nice cooperation between city, associations and school. One goal is to create "more quality of stay" in the city, here combined with more greenery that can be experienced," says Sascha Terörde, head of the Future Office at the City of Bocholt.