The city of Suwon in Gyeonggi Province is accepting applications for the ‘Citizen Farm Experience Garden’ until the 10th of this month.
The Citizen Farm is a garden where citizens can cultivate and experience agricultural activities at Tapdong Citizen Farm and three parks. Participants are selected by lottery from the applicants, and a certain area of garden plot is allocated to them.
The allocation scale is ▲Tapdong Citizen Farm (16㎡) for 1,500 households ▲Duretteul Park (10㎡) for 140 households ▲Mulhyanggi Park (10㎡) for 180 households ▲Youth Culture Park (5~10㎡) for 80 households, totaling 1,900 households.
Applications must be made under the name of the head of the household, and those selected can farm in the garden plots from March 28 to November 30.
50% of the plots are preferentially supplied to elderly persons aged 65 or older (heads of households), national merit recipients (heads of households), persons with disabilities, multicultural families, and households with three or more children under 19 years old. The remaining 50% are supplied to the general public. One garden plot is allocated per household.
Applications can be made by visiting the Suwon city website (www.suwon.go.kr) and clicking the ‘2025 Citizen Farm Experience Garden Application’ banner, which links to the application page.
The lottery results can be checked on the Suwon city website on February 21. Applicants must pay the experience fee and complete a preliminary education course to be confirmed as participants. The experience fee is 15,000 KRW for Tapdong Citizen Farm, and free for park gardens.
Garden participants are prohibited from cultivating crops that cause inconvenience to neighbors (tall crops, vine crops), and must practice eco-friendly urban ecological farming by not using plastic sheets, chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides, or other chemical materials. They must also keep the garden clean and pleasant and avoid causing inconvenience to neighbors.
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