{"id":661,"date":"2013-09-28T04:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2013-09-28T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T11:08:10","slug":"turntable-garde-and-cafe-helsinki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/28\/turntable-garde-and-cafe-helsinki\/","title":{"rendered":"Turntable Garden and Cafe, Helsinki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/turntable1.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Turntable Cafe\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unused railway turntable<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/turntable2.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Turntable Cafe\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The transformed railway turntable, now a garden and cafe<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>In August, Brooke and I had lunch at the Turntable Cafe located in old railroad yards of Helsinki.  We were primarily doing research regarding urban composting and gardening.  These railroad yards had been abandoned and in 2012, one of the railway turntables was transformed into a greenhouse and rebranded as Turntable, an experiment in urban gardening.  During the summer months, every Friday lunch is available at Turntable and the food that is served is made from what is grown at the garden.  Turntable is a great example of industrial wasteland being transformed into a productive area by a small group of people.  The food was delicious and inexpensive.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/turntable3.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Turntable Cafe\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The transformed railway turntable, now a garden and cafe<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/turntable4.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Turntable Cafe\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior garden<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/turntable5.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Turntable Cafe\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is water collection below the structure<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/turntable6.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Turntable Cafe\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even shopping carts have been transformed into mobile gardens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The greenhouse built around the turntable i-beams can easily be deconstructed.  I found more information regarding Turntable on the portfolio site of Paiva Raivio, one of the artists who collaborated on the transformation of the railway turntable in to the garden and cafe, she states<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTurntable is an urban garden, cafe, greenhouse and an open, public space situated in Pasila\u00b4s historical railway yard. It was set up by Dodo\u00b4s activists: Jaakko Lehtonen, Kirmo Kivel\u00e4, Joseph Mulcahy and myself.<\/p>\n<p>The spot is where Dodo\u00b4s (an environmental NGO based in Helsinki) urban farming movement begun when gardeners took over a wasteland in 2009. In 2012 we transformed Turntable into an urban farming test lab and source for learning and inspiration. During it\u00b4s first year in action Turntable has offered various workshops, events and locally grown food in the Turntable-cafe. The garden also has a beehive, dry toilet, composts, cob oven and solar panels to produce energy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go to Paivi Raivio&#8217;s page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paiviraivio.com\/Kaantopoyta-Turntable-Urban-Garden\" title=\"Paivi Raivio\" target=\"_blank\">K\u00e4\u00e4nt\u00f6p\u00f6yt\u00e4 \/ Turntable Urban Garden<\/a> to read more and see photos.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2013\/turntable7.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Turntable Cafe\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turntable also has honeybees<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, Brooke and I had lunch at the Turntable Cafe located in old railroad yards of Helsinki. We were primarily doing research regarding urban composting and gardening. These railroad yards had been abandoned and in 2012, one of the railway turntables was transformed into a greenhouse and rebranded as Turntable, an experiment in urban [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,446,407,2,8],"tags":[776,401,451,450,452],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-activism","category-bioart","category-compost","category-critical_perspectives","category-public_art","tag-compost","tag-composting","tag-railway-turntable","tag-turntable-cafe","tag-urban-gardening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}