Sidewalk Scenes July 2025

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*** Street Food Festivals Are Everywhere *** Another Idea How to ‘Reduce Waste’ ***

  1. It’s the season for street food festivals. For example, there’s the Berlin Pistachio Street Food Festival on the fourth weekend of August. Many wonderful markets are also coming up. I will be attending the Slow Food Eco Market on August 9 and will report on it in my Local Foods category in late August or early September.
  2. As I walked through the lovely Rheingau quarter in Wilmersdorf, I spotted a small sign mounted on the door leading to a garden. Similar to many other gardens in the city, this one is rented out to private gardeners as part of the town’s green spaces (a wonderful idea that is very popular all over Berlin and Germany). The sign read: “If you have too much produce from your garden, just bring it by, and we will use it in our community programs.” It was from the community center around the corner. Marvelous! So, if you have too many apples on your tree or too many carrots on your plot, pick them when they’re ripe (or ask someone to help you) and donate the food. I’m putting an emphasis on this because, in fact, a lot of food rots every year because people don’t know what to do with it. But there are quite a few other people who could use that extra food. Great initiative! Thank you to everyone at the Lindenkirche near Rüdesheimer Platz for getting the apples rolling!