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BOTTEGA BOTANIKA
From Soil
to Soul
From Soil
to Soul
Conscious Food
& Unique Crafts
BOTTEGA
BOTANIKA
Conscious Food
& Unique Crafts
BOTTEGA
BOTANIKA
+49 1747945299
bottegabotanika@posteo.de
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Friedrichshain Mon–Sat 9:00–21:00
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Stories of land, roots and resistance
ABOUT US
Mindful foods
& Unique craftsmanship
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A mobile shop that selects agroecological products, local ecotypes and wild herbs, always in small quantities.
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Bottega Botanika: Agroecology, Roots and Rural Resistance
Bottega Botanika is a place where we gather what we believe in: agroecology, forgotten varieties, and the strength of short supply chains. It is a space for women who grow and process, and for old knowledge that risks vanishing with the next season. Terroir, understood in the broadest sense, is our starting point: the unique character that geology and climate give to every fruit.
Story of an Investigation
From the slopes of Etna to the invisible communities
I grew up in a village on the slopes of Etna. As a child, while I waited for my father in the village café, the farmers, artisans and gatherers there took me with them to the fields and into the workshops. It wasn’t formal training, but a direct and deep observation. As an adult I traveled further inland, searching for orally handed-down techniques and varieties, grown out of habit and love, in places normal distribution doesn’t reach. I sought these people out and listened to their stories.
Manifest: from knowledge to choice
A rooted vision, a clear decision
Ethical selection and “clean label”
Rural feminism and solidarity
Protection of rare biodiversity
Our filter is purity. We choose only products with few, recognizable ingredients, free of industrial oils or GMO standardization. From botanical island cosmetics to DOP preserves: Each item is a one-of-a-kind in limited series, chosen for its healing qualities and its organic integrity. To nourish oneself is, for us, the first act of health.
Over 80% of our workshop is the result of women’s work. We support small female producers and gatherers who preserve old knowledge and lead social projects in their regions. Choosing Bottega Botanika means directly funding rooted, independent farming and turning the short supply chain into a concrete gesture of e-quality.
We don’t follow stock, but the rhythm of the seasons and the unique topographies of the regions. We support forgotten varieties, Slow Food Presidia and wild plants that are at risk of disappearing. Ours is a gastronomic resistance: we bring to Berlin and Europe what is, by definition, rare, and protect local ecotypes from the standardization of taste.
VISION
METHOD
The act of nourishing
We follow the rhythm of the Earth
To choose means to choose, but it also means to vote. Every product we select is a clear stance in the world: a decision you can see in what is there and, above all, in what is not there. There is a subtle yet immense difference between eating and nourishing oneself. Eating means consuming; nourishing oneself — from the Latin nutrire, to nourish, to feed and to let grow — is a deeper act that involves body, senses, and region. Quality and meaning are inseparable for us: on this difference we base each of our decisions.
We are a nomadic shop: we move between markets and events, because direct contact is the soul of the project. For us it’s not just selling, but the way we tell the supply chain and the production method. Our selection changes every 2–3 weeks, always in small quantities: We follow the season, never the stock. We don’t seek aesthetic perfection, but the authenticity and coherence of those who produce with respect for the soil.
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Keepers of the Living
Not suppliers. Guardians of knowledge, land, and living things.
Mirka –
Custodian of Lost Varieties
Lazzarelle –
Coffee as Social Justice
Roberta –
Botanist & Cosmetic Formulator
Mirka tends a distributed farm where biodiversity is daily practice. She cultivates ancient and rare varieties using regenerative organic methods, self-producing seeds to preserve what industrial agriculture has nearly erased. Her land is a living archive of flavors that don't exist in supermarkets. Every jar she produces is an act of resistance against monoculture and forgetting.
Lazzarelle is a social cooperative born inside a women's prison, created to give incarcerated women a skill, a dignity, and a future. Their coffee is more than a product — it is a declaration that work is a right, not a privilege. An economy that puts human redemption at its center.
Roberta holds a doctorate in cosmetic science and has dedicated her practice to the wild botanicals of a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea — a scattered constellation of islands where plants grow shaped by salt, wind, and volcanic earth. Extreme conditions that concentrate nature's chemistry into something rare and potent.
Every flavor tells the story of a place — its soil, its light, the people
who created it.