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Researchers from Italy, Germany and Hungary share in the Polytechnic University of Cartagena their experiences and techniques in growing urban gardens during the day that next Monday 11 will be done in the School of Agriculture of UPCT project under HORTIS , under which will also be held on Wednesday 13 fair urban gardening initiatives.

HORTIS project, which is funded by the European Union and involving researchers from the group of Mediterranean Horticulture group UPCT seeks to promote the creation of new communities of urban horticulture, as a "tool of socialization and risk reduction social exclusion, allowing greater access to healthy food and efficient way, "says project leader, Jesus Ochoa.Como part of the project, a group of 30 people, mostly unemployed and belonging to different groups and associations interested by hortocultura, specialists are being trained as urban gardens and creating a demonstrative one parterre Campus Alfonso XIII by reusing and recycling materiales.Los course students have planted various vegetable varieties, such as lettuce, spinach, cabbage, broccoli, spinach, beets, onions, leeks, beans and peas, and herbs such as rosemary, lavender and savory in soil enriched with sheep manure and plant material and different containers with peat, coir and vermicompost.

Crops are green. "Our goal is knowing how to use what you have at hand," says Ochoa, professor of the School of Agricultural Engineering (ETSIA), "and create spaces where relationships". The conference will begin on Monday 11 to 16 hours and it will describe the experiences of urban gardens in Bologna, Berlin and Budapest, as well as the techniques used where agricultural soils are rare, as the cultivation in plastic bottles installed on roofs that performs Italian community.

Municipal representatives and hortocultura associations also provide their views on the gardens urbanos.El Wednesday 13, a fair on the campus of Alfonso XIII hortocultura meet urban initiatives of different groups and there will be activities and exhibitions, as a sample of different varieties Pumpkin and a workshop to make a homemade fertilizer.

Organic products also tasted Experiment Station Agrifood Thomas Ferro, in which researchers UPCT grown.

Source: UPCT