Jeonju City Shares Joy with 'Youth Urban Farmers' Cultivating Ecological Gardens

Jeonju Agricultural Technology Center and Jeonbuk National University Students Complete 'Urban Agriculture Program'

Jeonju Agricultural Technology Center (Director Kim Jong-seong) and students from Jeonbuk National University’s Agricultural Startup Specialization Project conducted volunteer activities by providing food made from harvested agricultural products to elderly users of the Jeonbuk Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, utilizing the produce from their ecological vegetable gardens.

The Jeonju Agricultural Technology Center and Jeonbuk National University Agricultural Startup Specialization Project students concluded the urban agriculture program, which had continued since early spring, by sharing the agricultural products harvested through the passion and effort of young urban farmers who had worked hard throughout the semester in the vegetable gardens.

Since March, the students have been creating ecological vegetable gardens using companion plants and conducting a four-month urban agriculture program under the theme “Young Urban Farmers Cultivating Healthy Minds.”

On the 21st, students from the Jeonbuk National University Agricultural Startup Specialization Project Team used the harvest from the ecological garden to prepare food made from the harvested agricultural products for the elderly users of the Jeonbuk Comprehensive Social Welfare Center and commemorated the event.
[Photo provided by Jeonju City]

The Urban Agriculture Department of the National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science was responsible for education on the overall understanding of ecological vegetable gardens and garden design during the program. Senior garden managers, trained jointly by the Jeonju Agricultural Technology Center and the Jeonju Senior Club’s Urban Agriculture Consultant Project Group, supported the program by assisting and managing the gardens when students were unable to participate, thereby supporting urban agriculture.

As a result, the young urban farmers harvested perilla leaves, lettuce, chili peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini, which they personally grew in the urban vegetable gardens they cultivated themselves.

Additionally, the young urban farmers prepared dishes such as potato salad sandwiches, perilla leaf mojitos, potato pancakes, and zucchini pancakes using the harvested produce and served them to the elderly users of the Jeonbuk Comprehensive Social Welfare Center on that day.

Jung Ga-young (2nd year, Department of Horticulture, Jeonbuk National University), a student who participated in the program, said, “I learned a lot through various urban agriculture activities such as farming myself and operating an urban agriculture promotion booth throughout the semester, and I felt proud to be able to share the harvested agricultural products.”

A representative from the Jeonju Agricultural Technology Center stated, “We hope that the continuous operation of urban agriculture programs that young people can participate in will serve as an opportunity for the young generation to form community bonds in the local society and promote returning to farming and rural areas, helping young people settle in the region.”

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