The last 17th of
March, I have collaborated in the implementation of Butterflies garden in
Badalona (Catalonia, Spain).
This garden is
located in Ca l'Arnús Park. Ca l'Arnús is one the most important parks
in
Badalona. This park was created in the
last decades of the XIX century as a private garden and it has been opened to
citizenship in April 2007. It is a romantic garden with channels, a tower and
orchards to produce fruits and vegetables to the landowner and workers. The
romantic garden has been preserved until nowadays and the orchards has been
become dry meadows (In my opinion they could be recovered as community or allotment
gardens).
With the
butterflies' garden, we can achieve goals similar to those of urban
agriculture.
- Increase the biodiversity: plants and animals (insects in this case).
- Social interaction, between people who participated in the plantation and people who will attend to workshops.
- Leisure, butterflies watching.
- Educational, the garden can be an example to teach and understand the life cycle of the butterflies and insects.
Thank you to
Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Badalona and Aloc association (especially
to Dr Fernando Carceller, alma mater of this project).
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