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@Kalasatama harbour, Helsinki
15:00 – 20:00 // free

Are you dreaming of growing your own veggies? Would you imagine, that you can grow food on an asphalt field in the middle of a city? Well it’s true and if you don’t believe us, we challenge you to check out this awesome Urban Gardening project run by Dodo ry and the City of Helsinki.

This Saturday Dodo is throwing a picnic, which might just be the perfect opportunity to satisfy your curiosity and dust off that dream of yours. Bring along you’re own food and open/curious mind and maybe you’ll be going home with a bag of seedlings (bring cash) and the right set of skills to start your own urban garden.

Other programme:

- Tips and tricks on how to grow your own urban garden

- Punky Reggae Acoustic Band

- Competition: make or bake your own eco-delicacy and bring it along to the picnic to be judged by the Dodo jury. The winner will get a VIP-invitation to the delicious Urban Garden-dinner later this year.

The sack garden of Kalasatama is located along the new walking route at the point of the Kalasatama cape, opposite to bridge of Mustikkamaa. Right next to it and this day only, you’ll find the Pimp & Pump – Bicycle Workshop.

Urban Garden: www.kaupunkiviljely.fi
Urban Garden Picnic on facebook

Photo by Päivi Raivio

@Kalasatama harbour, Helsinki
16:00 – 19:00 // free

Most bicycles are locked up in dusty sheds during winter, slaving their way over cobbled streets during summer and honked at by cars the rest of the year.
Still, some people know to appreciate this amazing (and some say fragile) wonder of transportation.

If you think your favorite velocipede (collective term for any kind of mono-, bi-, tri-, quatracycle) deserves to feel the love and be treated to some fun too, just grab some paint, stickers, tape, strings, bells, foil, plastic flowers etc. and join the Pimp & Pump workshop in Kalasatama.

Pimp & Pump offers therapy for traumatized bikes and invites you to party with the amazing Karaokekunkku (karaoke bike).

Feeling hungry? Check out the Dodo Urban Garden Picnic right next door.

Directions: From the Kalasatama metro bike straight forward through the harbour gate. Just keep on biking, turn left and follow the fence to the right OR just follow the fence and you´ll get there sooner or later. The workshop and the Garden are located opposite the Mustikkamaa shore.

Pimp & Pump on facebook
Karaokekunkku Appreciation Society on facebook

Photo by Timo Wright