an urban farm and Event space
Øens Have is a sprawling green oasis at Refshaleøen with vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, buzzing bees, clucking chickens, wild birds, insects and microlife. Increasing urbanization has caused us to be less in touch with nature, and cut us off from a natural understanding of cycles and ecosystems.
By creating an easily accessible, regenerative urban farm, we want to reconnect urban life with nature by inviting people to farm, cook, learn, and celebrate life’s big moments together with us in the garden.
Farm-to-table experience
Plan your next gathering at our urban farm on Refshaleøen and enjoy a true farm-to-table experience in one of our two handcrafted yurts in the middle of the garden. Here, we host everything from private dinners and weddings to meetings, workshops, and celebrations.
You can also join one of our own seasonal events. Have a look at our Calendar for upcoming dates.
We serve seasonal, organic food sourced directly from our farm and from local organic producers — including sustainably caught fish and animals that have lived a good life with care.
We are the sister farm to ØsterGro and share the same vision of making the city greener and giving access to fresh vegetables and a clearer sense of what’s in season right here in the city.
Together with an incredible number of enthusiastic volunteers, we have established Øens Have: the largest urban farm in Scandinavia. In collaboration, we work to promote ecology in the city through food experiences, fresh organic produce, tours, teaching and shared learning, and hands-on community experiences.
THE STORY BEHIND
To create Øens Have, we transformed the plot of land that formerly housed B&W shipping company’s canteen into a lively and green urban farm. Our aim has always been to demonstrate how we can use organic practices in an urban environment to grow vegetables and flowers under the blue sky; how we can create a fantastic habitat for hens, honey bees, birds, insects and microorganisms right here, in the center of Copenhagen.
At the heart of our urban farm are two beautiful yurt-tents built by Lyse-Nætter. These tents house farm-to-table experiences, insightful lectures, one-of-a-kind weddings and other events and green teaching courses. They are also a gathering space for the communal lunches we share with locals and visitors from all over the world at our weekly volunteer days.
In our minds, the purpose of urban farms is not to feed the entire city. Rather, a farm like Øens Have grows to build connections between the producer and the consumer, the rural and the urban, the human and the non-human. We want to reintroduce our local community to the origins of the produce in our supermarkets, and offer the opportunity to be directly involved in the side of the food system we don’t normally see, living in a city.
Øens Have is Certified Organic as of 2023 and are active members of the urban regenerative agriculture movement.
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We invite you to come and enjoy this special space with us.
OUR VISION
The people behind: Steffen Kristensen, Livia Urban Haaland & Kristian Skaarup