Learning from the historical Garden Realm for the future means re-acquiring - through concrete perception, ecological education and practical experiment - the abilities lost in a world based on a very differentiated division of labor, in order to reclaim the countryside as a place for living - garden art as the art of treating the soil, plants and animals appropriately.
The »School of Garden Art« project is subsidized as an initiative for independent regional development by the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. In accord with the Minister of the Environment, this project is now called upon to find suitable forms of continuing its work (e.g. hiving off parts of project enterprises, continuing developments with new sponsors, becoming an independent initiative). The aim is to continue the project as an »Educational Workshop for Landscape Cultivation«.
The School of Garden Art aims at the careful cultivation and development of special   areas   in    the   Dessau   Wörlitz

Garden Realm under historical preservation, and at recultivating parts of the countryside lying waste including problematic areas such as tips, dumps and contami-nated soil. »One day, the people living in this countryside will comprehend economics as the doctrine of conserving their resources, and see their behavior in relation to its effects at a local and global level. The role of farmers will no longer be that of recipients of subsidies but of people bearing responsibility.« (Andreas Muhar, 1994)