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In total there are 61 gardens leisure |

The Board of Governors approved this morning the technical and legal conditions to be followed in the operation of municipal Leisure Gardens.

The five plots are for local non-profit crops, combining the benefits of this type of gardening with the environmental and heritage which represents the conservation of local varieties threatened with extinction and maintenance of an agroecosystem of great interest as is the Former Huerta de Murcia.

The municipality has five fields located in South Round (Lake Garden), James the Greater, Sangonera la Verde (The Sunflowers II) and two in Espinardo (behind Young Future Tirocosa and garden), which are divided in 61 orchards leisure.

In the next call will go to tender the 16 orchards Tirocosa garden, since it has not been grown before, and those of other plots to those who have renounced their previous winner.

The cultivation of these gardens may choose leisure Murcia those citizens who have reached adulthood, giving preference to those who are retired or taken early retirement.

Applicants must be residents of the municipality of Murcia and do not allow the presentation of more than one application per household (spouses, parents and dependent descendants, who live in the same household).

Those selected may use the plot to them corresponded over a period of 2 calendar years, being able to grant an extension for 2 years to those bidders who request it.

In any case, the maximum time authorization of use on a parcel by the same user is 4 calendar years.

If either resign or let users free his land from any other cause, shall be awarded to the next on the list of applicants is the bag for the time remaining before the end of those 2 years.

The plots will be awarded by lottery to which applicants must attend in order to participate in it.

The draw is made in three phases.

In the first part who meet the condition of retired or early retirees and those parcels located in districts will be given preference retirees and early retirees residents of this hamlet.

If restasen plots or patches, there will be a second phase of the lottery among applicants who did not enter the first draw, following the same system can choose between the parcel that will become, according to the number obtained, if in this second phase awarded all plots or beds were declared ended draw.

Finally, we will be among those attending the event, a single bag of applicants on the waiting list, so that when a vacancy occurs in any of the plots allotted, you will be offered to those listed in the bag, in the order they appear registered

They made regular calls every two years and may be extraordinary calls for the creation of new leisure gardens during the term resulting from a previous call.

To request a leisure garden should accompany the application, specifying the order of preference the garden or municipal land they wish to choose, the following documentation:

-Photocopy of ID

-Certificate of registration in the municipality of Murcia.

-Documentation, if any, credit status of the applicant retired or taken early retirement.

-Certificate to be aware of payment of tax obligations to the State Treasury, Local Finance and Social Security.

-Affidavit that the applicant is in proper physical condition to perform the tasks of development and use of the plot.

Cultures were carried out preferably in organic farming system, not having to handle dangerous pesticides and to guarantee respect for health and the environment, thus avoiding the use of fertilizers and pesticides that pollute or lead risk to cause serious damage on land, surface waters and aquifers or unwanted particles that may emit into the atmosphere that may cause damage to both fauna and flora surrounding the place or people.

As far as possible be used natural remedies against pests and diseases and paid regularly land previously decomposed organic matter and odor free (compost, manure, organic waste, etc..) Instead of artificial fertilizers.

The choice of crop will be free and prioritize the use of traditional varieties of the Huerta de Murcia.

The works necessary for conditioning and preparing the gardens Leisure be paid by the City Council.

Furthermore, these bases have included some specific prohibitions:

1) You may not use protection systems of the cultures with inorganic materials.

(Plastic coatings).

2) The Contractor shall not employ any staff in the gardens that could be understood within the labor law and it was outside his household.

3) may not be ceded to use the gardens to third parties.

However, the license holder, you can help other family support work in the cultivation and maintenance, but in no case allow the transfer of the license by the contractor.

4) The preventive use of barbecues and carrying out any fires inside the orchards.

5) It is prohibited to abandon the cultivation or use of the gardens, which must be grown in all seasons, not just in the summer season.

A garden can not be more than 2 months idle.

If they are unable to do so, it must inform the City Council at the earliest.

6) There shall be no sale of horticultural products to obtain the users of the leisure gardens, or any other commercial transaction involving a commercial legal transactions.

7) It is prohibited the planting of exotic species, invasive or psychotropic plant whose cultivation or not permitted by law

8) The plots are for vegetables or flowers, excluding the planting of trees and shrubs, including fruit.

9) prohibited the keeping of animals in the gardens

10) It can be built on parcels of orchards leisure metal structures or other materials, such as support for separation, awnings or canopies.

Also you can not change the original layout of the plots, or attach them to parcels adjacent or close to any type of fencing is not contemplated in the original design of the parcels and may specify, with justification, limitations to the use of water or fertilizer their cost by the user.

Users of the garden should bear the costs of routine maintenance of facilities such as clean facilities, replacement or repair of irrigation systems when the fault is due to daily use and do not involve major repairs and expenses necessary for the development of the crop.

There is an obligation to pay annually the plot in the right time, preferably with the elements and techniques authorized for organic farming.

The City of Murcia offers the winners of leisure garden machinery or tools that may be used only within the orchard or parcel that has been awarded:

The overall objectives of this initiative are:

- Use local farmland as social orchards under organic production systems and traditional.

- Recover and preserve local varieties of the Huerta de Murcia.

- Develop educational achievement, training and outreach.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia