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José Ballesta: "CEOM users expand their work experience and achieve specialized professional training, with the supervision of City Council staff and STV".

Within this process of social insertion and training, they also participate in nursery cultivation and support for CEOM users, inmate volunteers and former prisoners of the Association Parenthesis.

The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, José Guillén, visited today the Mayayo Municipal Nursery, a space of 22 hectares, in which 30,000 poinsettias have been cultivated the gardens of neighborhoods and districts will fill with color and Christmas spirit, thanks to this project promoted by the City of Murcia, in which users of the Association for the Integration of People with Intellectual Disabilities (CEOM) have participated, with the support of members of the Association Parenthesis for the inclusion of persons with deprivation of liberty.

"These are our own-grown plants that are grown in this municipal environment that we recovered two years ago and that has produced a total of 120,000 that have gone entirely to the gardens of the districts and the city of Murcia," he said. José Ballesta, who said that “the production is carried out with the collaboration of the students of the CEOM gardening training courses, which extend their work experience and achieve specialized professional training, with the supervision of City Hall and STV staff.

Within this process of social insertion and training, they also participate in nursery cultivation and support for CEOM users, inmate volunteers and former prisoners of the Association Parenthesis.

Both CEOM and the Association Parenthesis joined their efforts to develop collaborative actions in the field of inclusion and social support of groups at risk of exclusion, such as people with intellectual disabilities and persons deprived of liberty, within the rehabilitation project and commissioning of the municipal nursery of El Mayayo.

For this, a collaboration agreement was signed with the City of Murcia, to facilitate the implementation of actions aimed at the recovery of the nursery, the implementation of the gardening and planting employment workshop, according to the municipal needs of restocking of flower beds and natural spaces of the municipality.

Easter flowers will be transplanted to the gardens at the end of the month

The 30,000 poinsettia flowers, of nine different varieties and different colors (mostly red, but also white, bicolor and pink) were planted in the month of August and will be transplanted to the gardens between the last week of November and the first of December, to beautify and fill the neighborhoods and districts of Murcia with life during the Christmas holidays.

Within the wide enclosure of the Mayayo Municipal Nursery there are three greenhouses in which plant production is done: one of 1,560m2, in which 23,000 Easter flowers are grown, and the other two, which host the remaining 7,000, which are used for refills, with a culture difference of 8 weeks.

Job bank for people with disabilities

The City Council created a waiting list for temporary employment of the Peón category of Gardening for people with disabilities and a call will be made for a merit contest to perform these tasks in the Municipal Nursery of Mayayo.

In total, 15 CEOM people have participated throughout the year who have achieved their professional training through the following professional certificates: Nursery, garden and garden center assistant, Auxiliary activities in agriculture, Installation and maintenance of gardens and Parkland.

Since the experience began, 40 people deprived of liberty residents of the Guillermo Miranda Social Insertion Center (CIS) have participated.

Among other tasks, they have been in charge of transplanting, pinching, cuttings, seed collection and daily care of the plants, with the support of 8 municipal technicians and two of STV, as well as 15 monitors and two coordinators of the CIS and CEOM.

One hundred CEOM users in therapeutic gardens

In addition, 96 CEOM users participated in the Therapeutic Orchards project carried out in the nursery, who contributed to the maintenance of existing crops.

120,000 own production plants

Since production in the municipal nursery was resumed in 2018, 120,000 plants have been cultivated for the gardens of the municipality as a whole, with the work developed by people with disabilities from CEOM.

At the municipal nursery the plant arrives in cuttings.

The staff transplant it (pass it to the pot) and connect the drippers (each pot carries its own).

After three months of production, they take to the gardens of the entire municipality.

Regarding the production of the different plants: from February to April 2018, 20,000 geraniums were grown for the gardens at Spring Festival;

from September to December 2028, 20,000 poinsettias for the gardens during Christmas;

from January to March 2019, 50,000 geraniums for the Spring Festival;

and finally, the 30,000 Easter flowers this Christmas.

During this time, the City Council has invested in the improvement of greenhouses, with installation of plastic, irrigation, fertilizer booth, tank, agitator and metering pumps.

The most recent action has been the installation of a climate control system, which allows the automatic opening of overhead and side windows to regulate temperature and humidity within it.

Agroecological Innovation Projects

The Mayayo nursery, in addition, have been taken as 'Center for Agroecological Innovation and Socio-Labor Integration' within the framework of the projects: Observatory of Agroecological Innovation against Climate Change and Weaving Networks for the Conservation of the Huerta de Murcia.

CEOM and Paréntesis participate in both projects, together with the University of Murcia and various producers and companies related to the agri-food sector.

Among the actions carried out to date, the planting of a collection of fruit and citrus trees in danger of extinction, the recovery and multiplication of seeds of local varieties threatened, and trials of quinoa, amaranth and moringa as alternative crops stand out.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia