Stockholm’s community gardens are the place to experience a slice of Swedish life
Getting to know the Swedes through their Koloniomrade or city gardens
By Geetika Jain
C N Traveler
Aug 2, 2025
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Our hilly, gravelly walk took us past the narrow lanes of what the locals call ‘Tanto’, a clutch of around 110 gardens that often dissolve into each other. In their midst were teensy cottages from which Pipi Longstocking might explode during one of her antics. The genius of garden allotments–a patch of land that city dwellers can lease and tend to, if they’re lucky enough to get one after a lengthy application process and waiting list–has been appreciated by many nations such as the UK, Germany and USA. Getting one’s hands in the dirt and growing one’s own vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers has innumerable health benefits. These community gardens, known as Koloniomrade in Sweden, are most captivating, with picture-book cottages suffused in creepers and sublime views of hills and waterways beyond.
Taking to the narrow lanes between the waist-high fences, we wondered if it was okay to be rambling within touching distance of people’s homes, and then we realised, this was Sweden, the nation of Allemansrätten, the right to roam free, even on farms and estates owned by others, and this Tanto happens to also be a public park, inviting walkers. We trod on confidently, up the hill and around, wherever the most inviting views took us.
The Swedes are partial to a deep red outdoor paint they call Falu red, originally a by-product from the Falun copper mines. They say, ask a Swedish kid to draw a house, and it’ll be a red one with white outlines for windows. We loved inhabiting those drawings as the cottages here, as well as the fences, were resolutely and gloriously red, giving the entire place a cohesive feel.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/stockholms-community-gardens-are-the-place-to-experience-a-slice-of-swedish-life/
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