Goyang Special City (Lee Dong-hwan) is trying to attract food butlers and urban farmers by spreading healing agriculture. It is the first local government to operate a plant hospital and also holds an urban agriculture festival under the theme of ‘Let’s go food butler’. In addition, we are accelerating the development, effectiveness verification, and distribution of healing agriculture programs and expanding social value.
Goyang Special Mayor Lee Dong-hwan said, “We plan to provide help to citizens who raise companion plants by operating a plant hospital and to prove and spread the effectiveness of the healing program with the measurement system we built together.” “We have prepared a useful and fun program for you, so please come and have a healing time,” he said.
Operates on weekdays from 10:00 to 17:00 by reservation, and provides services from diagnosis to analysis and prescription for free.
On September 26, a plant hospital opened on the first floor of the main building of the Goyang City Agricultural Technology Center. The plant hospital, which was established with donations of 150 million won from NH Nonghyup Bank’s Goyang City branch and eight other agricultural cooperatives, consists of a reception and diagnosis room, a comprehensive pest analysis room, and a healing agriculture room. It has been operating from 10:00 to 17:00 on weekdays from the 1st, and can be used through integrated reservations on the Goyang City website.
At the plant hospital, if you visit with a problematic pet plant or crop, it will be diagnosed and prescribed free of charge. If you fill out the plant’s cultivation environment, management status, and special matters in the diagnosis request form, you can receive management instructions after consultation and simple prescriptions such as repotting and chemical control. For crops, specialized consultation is provided by connecting with the person in charge of each crop. If accurate confirmation is difficult with the naked eye, the comprehensive pest analysis laboratory conducts an in-depth analysis of problems such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, and soil, and prescribes treatment.
The healing agriculture room is equipped with a healing effect measurement system, such as a stress meter and cognitive function tester, and provides customized services to program recipients through pre- and post-tests. If you want to learn more about crop and companion plant management, you can also take agricultural education classes offered at the Agricultural Technology Center.
The plant hospital will be temporarily operated until the end of the year and plans to be officially operated next year after supplementing the operation manual. A separate hospitalization room is also provided so that pet plants that cannot be treated on the same day can receive long-term treatment. In addition, the plan is to operate a visiting pet plant hospital using external experts such as urban agriculture managers and young farmers.
12th Urban Agriculture Festival… There are many things to enjoy, including instant gardening and excavating wild rice seeds.
The 12th Urban Agriculture Festival will be held on October 11th and 12th at the lawn plaza of the Goyang City Agricultural Technology Center. Lectures, experiences, markets, events, etc. will be held under the theme of ‘Let’s go food butlers’ so that the increasing number of food butlers can experience various agricultural activities in their daily lives.
In particular, in the one-day hydroponic plant class, you can create hydroponic plants using philodendron, which is easy to grow at home, with an indoor gardening expert. In the seed paper and pairing workshop held with the plant life brand ‘Seed Keeper’, you will make seed paper and give matching seeds as a gift to your partner. Applicants can make a reservation in advance at Goyang City Integrated Reservation.
A variety of exploration trails for children await at the Kawaji Rice Seed Museum in the Agricultural Technology Center. You can decorate your own half-moon stone knife and earthenware, dig up rice seeds like an archaeologist, or harvest lettuce in the garden.
The experience booth was prepared by Samsong Library. Unique experiences such as drone soccer using pest control drones are prepared. Instant gardening for beginners who are raising companion plants for the first time and repotting to provide new homes for companion plants are also available.
In addition, it is also worth paying attention to the lecture on the success of veranda gardening by Lee Hae-sol, a YouTuber and author of ‘Boranda Farmer Starting Today’, and the story of indoor plants by an agricultural researcher at the National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science. At the market, you can also find local food and processed agricultural products grown by farmers in Goyang City, as well as products made by cancer survivors by participating in the National Cancer Center’s horticultural healing program.
Healing agriculture program linked to medical institutions spreads throughout society
Goyang City operates a customized healing program for each consumer, proves the medical effectiveness of the healing program, and is leading the spread of the healing agricultural program. The results of the healing program for dementia patients conducted by the city in connection with Heavenly Hospital in 2022 won the grand prize at the Spring Academic Conference of the Human Plant Environment Society last year and the Excellence Award at the Healing Agriculture Central Competition this year.
Starting from 2021, the National Cancer Center and the National Cancer Center are conducting annual healing gardens and horticultural healing programs for cancer patients, and the Konkuk University Industrial-Academic Cooperation Foundation plans to continue joint research and development on healing agriculture until 2030. Since last August, the Ilsan Hospital Primary Care Development Center has been operating a healing farming program for patients and their guardians, and plans to measure follow-up results using the Plant Hospital healing measurement system.
The city is conducting customized healing programs for the disabled, alcoholics, schools, families of crime victims, case managers, self-reliance workers, etc., and is disseminating healing agriculture to all corners of society. Last month, we began a service to develop a customized healing agricultural program for each target group, and we plan to build and spread a high-quality healing farming system by incorporating it into healing farms next year.
Economy Queen Reporter Hongmi Kim / Photo Goyang City
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