Just a few metres behind the luxury buildings of a new housing estate in Zbraslav is a double-fenced area filled with dozens of bizarre little huts in the middle of immaculately kept tiny gardens. It's the garden colony Kamínka, a little world of the local gardening enthusiasts. There are hundreds such settlements in the Czech Republic, but they are disappearing forever and being replaced by new buildings. Right now, Czech MPs have decided to slow down this development. They want to introduce a gardening law that would shift local crop lovers from the category "bizarre" to the category "beneficial for the society".
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Kamínka has a long tradition here in Zbraslav: Locals and people from the nearby Prague come to this quiet place to enjoy their farming experience for decades. And, as they say, the gardens helped them survive the boring period of communism (and the Communists promoted these gardeners as well as fishermen and gamekeepers vehemently).
Digging in soil brings them pleasure these days as well. Not all people have a garden next to their house and not all people can afford a seaside holiday. Moreover, growing a few kilos of your own tomatos is still worth the effort. But the world of Czech gardeners is endangered: Just in the capital city, more than 120 such garden colonies have ceased to exist in less then 20 years, and many…
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