DAKAKKER

For many years I have worked as a volunteer on one of the most beautiful places in Rotterdam:
the DakAkker, a rooftop garden in the centre of the city.
In 2023 the Rotterdam Environmental Center
which was one of the initiators of the rooftopgarden asked me to make their annual reports.
I’m very excited about this assigment as I photographed the garden

extensively over the years and was able to work with this archive.
For the annual reports from 2020 - 2022 I contributed a lot of images and did the editing and organizing.
The design as well as additional editing was done
by Femke Bakker.

The DakAkker is a 1000m2 rooftop farm on top of the Schieblock in Rotterdam. It is an experimental garden to learn more about using rooftops differently. Rooftop gardener Wouter Bauman as well as a dedicated group of volunteers grow vegetables, edible flowers and fruits. There are several
beehives, as well as worm hotels and the beloved chickens.
The DakAkker is the largest
open-air rooftop farm in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. On the roof of the rooftop pavilion is the Slimdak. A test site for smart water collection.